WHSG-TV
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| WHSG-TV | |
|---|---|
| Atlanta metro area | |
| City of license | Monroe, Georgia |
| Channels | |
| Subchannels | 63.1 - TBN 63.2 - Church Channel 63.3 - JCTV 63.4 - Enlace USA 63.5 - Smile of a Child |
| Owner | Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc. (Trinity Broadcasting Network) |
| First air date | 1991[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | His Saving Grace, was Home Shopping Georgia |
| Former callsigns | WHSG (1991-2003) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 63 (1991-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Home Shopping Network |
| Transmitter Power | 700 kW |
| Height | 303 metres (990 ft) |
| Facility ID | 68058 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 33°44′41″N 84°21′36″W / 33.74472°N 84.36°W |
| Website | www.tbn.org |
WHSG-TV is a Georgia television station on digital channel 44. The analog station is located in eastern metro Atlanta in northern Rockdale County — about halfway between Atlanta and Monroe, Georgia, its city of license. It is an owned and operated affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Because it has no local content (except for local insertion of the required station ID), it is not carried as a local channel on DirecTV because TBN is already carried. Conversely, WUVM-LP 4 is carried on DirecTV instead.
It had one broadcast translator, W55BM atop Sweat Mountain, northwest of Atlanta. That station is now W49DE, an affiliate of JCTV.
This station chose in the first round of digital channel elections to keep its current DTV RF channel 44 permanently, since all channels 52 to 69 are being removed from the UHF TV bandplan in June 2009. Like other TBN stations, it ended analog broadcasts on April 16, 2009.[2]
The station's digital transmission is made from immediately south of Atlanta's Inman Park neighborhood, along the north side of Interstate 20. This is the same tower as WUPA TV 69/43, built by that station when its original location (atop the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel) could not hold a second large TV antenna for digital. It also has WIRE-CA 40, a construction permit for W06CM-D 6, and applications for WYGA-CA 45. No serious damage occurred to the station when the 2008 Atlanta tornado passed by the site, even though WYGA (operating from the site unter STA at very low power until WGCL-TV 46 goes digital) was knocked off-air. WHSG has a application to increase from 700kW to its maximum 1000kW effective radiated power with the same antenna height.
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[edit] History
The channel launched in 1991. As the call sign indicates, this was an affiliate of Home Shopping Network throughout much of the 1990s, replacing WNGM (now WUVG). In 2003, TBN bought the station and changed to the current religious format.
[edit] Digital services
This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks:
| Channel | Label | Format | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63.1 | TBN | 480i | TBN |
| 63.2 | Church | 480i | The Church Channel |
| 63.3 | JCTV | 480i | JCTV - Christian music videos |
| 63.4 | Enlace | 480i | Enlace USA - Spanish-language |
| 63.5 | Smile | 480i | Smile of a Child - E/I children's programming |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.
[edit] External links
- TBN website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WHSG-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WHSG-TV
[edit] References
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says February 22, while the Television and Cable Factbook says March 15.
- ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-589A3.pdf
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