Mississippi

• Channel 2: WMAB - (PBS) - Mississippi State, MS (Tupelo)
• Channel 3: WLBT - (NBC) - Jackson
• Channel 4: WCBI - (CBS) - Columbus, MS (Tupelo)
• Channel 6: WABG - (ABC) - Greenwood, MS (Greenville) W) A)B)C G)reenville
• Channel 7: WDAM - (NBC) - Laurel, MS (Biloxi-Gulfport) some call this W-dam
• Channel 8: WHCQ-LP - (America One) - Cleveland, MS (Greenville)
• Channel 9: WTVA - (NBC) - Tupelo (Tupelo)
• Channel 10: WBMS - (PAX/America One) - Jackson
• Channel 11: WTOK - (ABC) - Meridian
• Channel 12: WJTV - (CBS) - Jackson W) J)ackson, MS-T)V)
• Channel 13: WLOX - (ABC) - Biloxi (Biloxi-Gulfport) W) Bil)o)x)i

UHF stations

• Channel 14: WMAW - (PBS) - Meridian
• Channel 15: WXVT - (CBS/FOX) - Greenville W_ roman numeral for 15, X)V)-T)V
• Channel 16: WAPT - (ABC) - Jackson
• Channel 17: WMAU - (PBS) - Bude, MS (Natchez)
• Channel 19: WMAH - (PBS) - Biloxi (Biloxi-Gulfport) "METV"
• Channel 20: WBII-LP - (Independent) - Holly Springs, MS (Memphis, TN)
• Channel 22: W22BS - (UPN) - Tupelo (Tupelo)
• Channel 22: WHLT - (CBS) - Hattiesburg (Biloxi-Gulfport)
• Channel 23: W23BC - (Educational) - Jackson
• Channel 23: WMAO - (PBS) - Greenwood, MS (Greenville) "METV"
• Channel 24: W24CR - (Religious) - Natchez
• Channel 24: WMDN - (CBS/FOX) - Meridian W) M)erid)ian)
• Channel 25: W25AD - (TBN) - Columbus, MS (Tupelo)
• Channel 25: WXXV - (FOX/UPN) - Gulfport (Biloxi-Gulfport) W) Roman numeral dor 25, X)X)V)
• Channel 26: W26BB - (Religious/3ABN) - Vicksburg (Jackson)
• Channel 27: WLOV - (FOX/UPN) - West Point, MS (Tupelo)
• Channel 29: WMPN - (PBS) - Jackson "Mississippi Edu. Television" (METV) (flagship) W) M)ississip)pi N)etwork
• Channel 30: WGBC - (NBC) - Meridian
• Channel 32: W32BH - (Religious/FamilyNet) - Tupelo (Tupelo)
• Channel 33: W33BH - ((TBN) - Greenville
• Channel 35: W35BM - (TBN) - Biloxi (Biloxi-Gulfport)
• Channel 35: WUFX - (FOX) - Vicksburg (Jackson) W) U) F)OX)
• Channel 40: WDBD - (WB) - Jackson
• Channel 40: WBUY - (TBN) - Holly Springs, MS (Memphis, TN) W-buy some prefer.
• Channel 45: WKDH - (ABC/UPN) - Houston, MS (Tupelo)
• Channel 46: WJKO-LP - (Religious/Daystar) - Jackson W) J)ack)so)n
• Channel 47: W47CG - (TBN) - Meridian
• Channel 48: WNTZ - (FOX) - Natchez W) N)at)chez)
• Channel 53: W53AF - (Religious/Unity) - Booneville, MS (Tupelo)
• Channel 59: W59DK - (TBN) - Natchez

See also

Geography

Physical Geography: Mississippi is bounded by Tennessee on the north, Alabama on the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana on the south, and on the west, across the Mississippi River, the states of Louisiana and Arkansas.

Mississippi's physical geography is characterized by two distinct regions: the Mississippi River Floodplain and the Gulf Coastal Plain. The Mississippi Floodplain runs along the western part of the state, adjacent to the Mississippi River, and includes the Mississippi Delta region, one of the most fertile regions in the world. Between the southwest corner and Vicksburg the Floodplain extends only a few miles east of the river, but north of Vicksburg it extends eastward to the Yazoo River, forming a large, leaf-shaped region, the Mississippi Delta. The Gulf Coastal Plain covers all the rest of the state and can be divided into nine distinct regions. The Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers' Hills occupy the northeastern part of the state, where Woodall Mountain, near Iuka, is the state's highest point, at 806 feet above sea level. West of the Hills is the Black Prairie, a narrow, fertile, crescent-shaped lowland with few trees. Along the western border of the Black Prairie rises the Pontotoc Ridge, from the Tennessee state line to near Ackerman. North Mississippi also includes the Flatwoods, a narrow crescent of sticky clay soil adjacent to both the Tennessee and Alabama borders. Additionally, the North Central Hills occupy all of north-central Mississippi and extend as far southeast as Clarke County. To the west, the Loess Hills (or Bluff Hills) another series of uplands run along the edge of the Floodplain. These hills border the eastern edge of the Delta in the north and then curve westward following the line of the Mississippi River below Vicksburg.

South of the North Central Hills, the Jackson Prairies, a belt of fertile farmland, run northwest to southeast from Yahoo County into Wayne County. All of southern Mississippi except for a strip along the gulf, is covered with the Long Leaf Pine Hills (a.k.a. Piney Woods) south of the Jackson Prairies, and is the state's chief timber-producing area. Along the southern edge of the panhandle lie the Coastal Meadows. The lowest part of the state, along the estuary known as the Mississippi Sound, lies at sea level.

The western part of the state is drained by the Mississippi River and three of its tributaries -? the Yazoo, Big Black, and Homochitto rivers. The extreme northeastern corner lies in the basin of the Tennessee River. The rest of the state drains southward into the Gulf of Mexico, mainly through the Pearl, Pascagoula, and Tombigbee rivers.

Additionally, Mississippi's four barrier islands, Horn Island, Cat Island, East and West Ship Islands, and Petit Bois Islands form part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico.

Racial Makeup: Until about 1940 African Americans made up a majority of Mississippians. Currently, however, blacks only consists of about 33 percent of the population. A few thousand Indians (mostly Choctaw) live in the east central section of the state. The small Chinese population found in the Delta is descended from farm laborers brought there from California in the 1870s. The Chinese did not adjust well to the Mississippi plantation system, however, and most of them became small merchants. The coastal fishing industry has attracted Southeast Asian refugees.

The white population of Mississippi is remarkably homogeneous. More than 98 percent native-born of native stock, whites are predominantly of British, Irish, and northern European. The black, Choctaw Indian, and Chinese segments of the population are also almost entirely native-born.

Religious Makeup: Mississippi's religious affiliations largely consist of Protestant denominations, particularly Baptists and United Methodists. The Roman Catholic population is found primarily in urban areas and on the Gulf Coast. The Jewish population is also mainly concentrated in urban areas.

The Mississippi runs through, or borders, ten states in the United States -- Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana -- before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles (160 km) downstream from New Orleans.

Recreational and commercial traffic on the upper Mississippi

The mouth of the river has shifted repeatedly over time. Since a canal was built in the early nineteenth century, the river has been seeking the Atchafalaya River mouth, some 60 miles (95 km) from New Orleans. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains a massive system of locks to keep the river in its present course.

Other changes in the course of the river have occurred because of earthquakes along the New Madrid Fault Zone, which lies near the cities of Memphis and St. Louis. Three earthquakes in 1811 and 1812, estimated at approximately 8 on the Richter Scale, were said to have temporarily reversed the course of the Mississippi. These earthquakes also created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee from the altered landscape near the river.

Davenport, Iowa is the only city over 20,000 people bordering the Mississippi that has no permanent floodwall or levee.

On May 8, 1541 Hernando de Soto became the first recorded white man to reach the Mississippi River (he named it Rio de Espiritu Santo). Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette began exploring the Mississippi on May 17, 1673.

The river was noted for the number of bandits which called its islands and shores home, including John Murrell who was a well-known murderer, horse stealer and slave "re-trader." His notoriety was such that author Mark Twain devoted an entire chapter to him in his book Life on the Mississippi, and Murrell was rumored to have an island headquarters on the river at Island 37.

Twain's book also extensively covered the thrilling steamboat races which took place from 1830 to 1870 on the river before more modern boating methods replaced the steamer. It was published first in serial form in Harper's Weekly in seven parts in 1875 and was intended to chronicle the rapidly disappearing steamboat culture. The full version, including a passage from the unfinished Huckleberry Finn and works from other authors, was published by James R. Osgood & Co in 1885. The first steamboat to travel the full length of the Mississippi from the Ohio River to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana was the New Orleans in December 1811. Its maiden voyage occurred during the series of New Madrid earthquakes in 1811-1812.

In the spring of 1927 the river broke out of its banks in 145 places during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and inundated 27,000 square miles to a depth of up to 30 feet.

In 2002 Martin Strel swam the entire length of the river.