WEMT
| City | Greeneville, Tennessee |
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| WCYB-TV | |
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First air date | November 4, 1985 |
Former call signs | WETO (1985–1989) |
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Call sign meaning | East Tennessee and former owner MT Communications, founded by Michael Thompson |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 40761 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 719.3 m (2,360 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°26′58.2″N 82°6′28.7″W / 36.449500°N 82.107972°W |
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WEMT (channel 39) is a television station licensed to Greeneville, Tennessee, United States, serving the Tri-Cities area with programming from the digital multicast network Roar. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Bristol, Virginia–licensed NBC/CW/Fox affiliate WCYB-TV (channel 5). The two stations share studios on Lee Street on the Virginia side of Bristol (straddling the Virginia–Tennessee line); WEMT's transmitter is located at Rye Patch Knob on Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest.
Channel 39 began in November 1985 as WETO ("East Tennessee's Own"), the market's first independent station, under local ownership and with studios and offices in Greeneville. WETO affiliated with Fox the next year. The undercapitalized local owners sold the station in 1989 to MT Communications, which changed the call letters to WEMT. The station was sold again in 1992; it moved its studios to Johnson City, Tennessee. In 2006, then-WCYB-TV owner BlueStone Television acquired the station's non-license assets, while another group purchased the license; WCYB-TV has operated WEMT ever since under three different group owners. In December 2025, the Fox affiliation moved to WCYB-DT3, with WEMT continuing to simulcast the subchannel through January 2026.