WNEG-TV

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WNEG-TV
Toccoa, Georgia
Branding	WNEG WNEG News
Slogan	Serving Northeast Georgia
Channels	Digital: 24 (UHF)
Affiliations	Independent, This TV, America One
Owner	University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF Media Holdings, LLC)
First air date	September 9, 1984
Call letters’ meaning	NorthEast Georgia
Former affiliations	independent (1984-1995) CBS (1995-2008)
Transmitter Power	600 kW (digital)
Height	208.8 m (digital)
Facility ID	63329
Transmitter Coordinates	34°36′36″N 83°22′13.7″W / 34.61°N 83.370472°W / 34.61; -83.370472
Website	www.wneg32.com

WNEG-TV is an independent television station located in Toccoa, Georgia, serving several counties in the northeastern portion of that state, which are part of the Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson, S.C./Asheville, N.C. television market. The signal can also be seen in the extreme eastern portions of the Atlanta, Georgia market, including northeast suburbs such as Gainesville and Braselton, as well as Athens. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 24. It is owned by the University of Georgia Research Foundation and operated by UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

The station broadcasts local news, selected programs from This TV and America One, as well as syndicated children's programming, courtroom shows, and talk shows.

Contents 1 History 2 Personalities 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] History

WNEG-TV signed on air as an independent station on September 9, 1984. Its first owner was the Stephens County Broadcasting Company, who also owned WNEG-AM 630.

In 1991, it was acquired by the Spartan Radiocasting Company. (WNEG-AM still exists in Toccoa today, but under different ownership from WNEG-TV.) In 1995, after Atlanta's WAGA switched to Fox, WNEG acquired a CBS affiliation (as new Atlanta CBS affiliate WGNX (now WGCL-TV) did not have the reach WAGA had in remote northeast Georgia) and started its news operation. It adopted the branding NewsChannel 32 and a logo similar to the one that sister station WSPA-TV in Spartanburg used from 1994 to 2001 (which was also used by another sister station, WJBF in Augusta, Georgia, around the same time period). WNEG, along with the rest of the Spartan company, was acquired by Media General in 2000. WNEG kept the Spartan-era logo, while WSPA and WJBF switched to a Media General-standard one.

On October 29, 2007, Media General announced that it was exploring the sale of WNEG.^[1] This was followed on June 25, 2008 with an announcement that the station would be sold to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, which will use use channel 32 as a training facility for students in the University's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.^[2] The University took control on October 15; at that time, CBS programming was dropped^[3] and replaced with America One and This TV programming.^[4] It has also indicated that more local programming will be added; additionally the station's studios will be relocated from Toccoa to its campus in Athens in the fall of 2009.^[5] As a result of WNEG dropping CBS, WSPA now serves as Northeast Georgia's default CBS affiliate, while WGCL become the sole CBS affiliate for Athens.

[edit] Personalities

Anchors/Reporters

• Tracy Armbruster, Anchor, WNEG News 32 @ 6, 7, 10, and 11
• Cody Chaffins, Sports Reporter
• Eric Elliott, Weather
• Zac Glover, Additional Sports Reporter
• Amelia Hines, Reporter/Producer/Anchor, WNEG Daybreak
• Laura-Ashley Harris, Reporter/Anchor, WNEG Daybreak

Former News Personalities

• Chuck Moore, Anchor
• Scott Myrick, Anchor, NewsChannel 32 Daybreak
• Jennifer Cathey (now Arbitter), Anchor/News Director now teaches at Piedmont College
• Megan Heidlberg, Anchor/Reporter
• Noah Pransky, Sports Director/Anchor
• Chris McAndrew, Reporter
• Heather Jensen, Reporter
• Alaina Anderson, Daybreak Anchor/Reporter
• Bruce Frazier, Sports Reporter
• Randy Scott, Sports Director/Anchor
• Jason Maderer, Sports Director/Anchor
• Paul Rea, Daybreak Anchor/Reporter
• Matt McClure, Daybreak Anchor/Reporter
• Keeli Davidson, Sports Director/Reporter
• Jill Schroder, Daybreak Anchor/Reporter
• Jason Mealey, Anchor/Reporter
• Susanna Haynes, Reporter
• Lisa Warner, Reporter/Anchor
• Lisa Costantino, Reporter
• Amy Cain, Reporter
• Adrian Helmick, Anchor/Reporter
• Tony Teixiera, Anchor/Reporter
• John Hart, Sports Director/Anchor
• Scott Hartman, Sports Reporter
• Tracy Lee Vreeland, Reporter/News Director
• Joy Purcell, Anchor/Reporter/News Director
• Emily Sabatino, Anchor/Reporter
• Kate Mundy, Daybreak Anchor/Reporter
• Michael Carvell, Sports Director/Anchor
• Mark Childress, Sports Director/Anchor
• Jeff Sharon, Sports Director
• Mario Boone, Reporter
• Alisha Searl, Reporter

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• WSPA-TV

[edit] External links

• WNEG Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNEG-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WNEG-TV

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