WCES-TV
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| WCES-TV (satellite of WGTV, Athens/Atlanta, Georgia) |
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| Wrens-Augusta, Georgia (station identification breaks use Wrens/Augusta) |
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| City of license | Wrens, Georgia (USA) |
| Branding | GPB |
| Slogan | Bringing You the Best |
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| Affiliations | PBS (1970-Present) |
| Owner | Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission) |
| First air date | September 12, 1966 |
| Call letters’ meaning | We're Central- East Georgia and South Carolina |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 20 (1966 September 12 to 2009 Feb 17) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1966-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 30 kW |
| Height | 436 m |
| Facility ID | 23937 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 33°15′32.9″N 82°17′7.5″W / 33.259139°N 82.285417°W |
| Website | www.gpb.org/ |
WCES-TV channel 20 (DTV 6) is a part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting network, and was Georgia's sixth non-commercial educational TV station. It serves Augusta, Georgia and the surrounding east-central Georgia and west-central South Carolina area, along the Savannah River valley (also known locally as the "Georgia-Lina" region).
The transmitter and radio antenna are located southwest of Augusta in Wrens, Georgia, its city of license, From there, its signal travels in roughly a 50-mile (80 km) radius from the transmitter site, though a directional antenna (possibly a three-panel antenna) gives the station a somewhat triangularly-lobed radiation pattern.[1]
The station chose to keep its digital on channel 2 in the first-round digital channel election, but has requested (but not yet been granted) channel 6 in the third round. This is because the low VHF (band I) has a lot of RF noise, which is worst on the lowest channels.
The radio tower is a 446.7-meter-high guyed mast, located at 33°15'34"N and 82°17'8"W. It was built in 1966.[2]
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[edit] Translators
Both translators are located near the state's border with South Carolina, in areas where coverage from a full-powered GPB transmitter is insufficient, due to the distance from the main transmitters and the hilly terrain in northeast Georgia.
[edit] History
WCES-TV Channel 20 began on September 12, 1966 on the NET-TV Network & on October 5, 1970 WCES-TV Channel 20 and all 9 Stations affiliated to NET-TV became The PBS-TV Network. Its digital signal on channel 2 started in 2003.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- GPB Website
- GPB stations map — includes WCES coverage area
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WCES-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WCES-TV
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