WJTV (channel 12) is a television station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group. Its second subchannel serves as an owned-and-operated station of The CW as Nexstar owns a majority stake in the network. WJTV's studios are located on TV Road in southwest Jackson, and its transmitter is located in Raymond, Mississippi.
WHLT (channel 22) in Hattiesburg operates as a semi-satellite of WJTV extending the CBS signal into the Pine Belt region of Mississippi. As such, it clears all network programming as provided through its parent and simulcasts most of WJTV's newscasts, but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming; there are also separate station identifications and local commercial inserts. Although WHLT maintains its own studios on US 49 in Hattiesburg, master control and some internal operations are based at WJTV's facilities.
History
WJTV signed-on January 20, 1953, as Mississippi's first television station, airing an analog signal on UHF channel 25.