WTGS
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| Hardeeville, South Carolina/ Savannah, Georgia |
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| Branding | WTGS Fox (general) WTGS News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | The Coastal Source |
| Channels | Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 28 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 28.1 Fox |
| Owner | PBC Broadcasting, LLC (operated through SSA by New Vision Television) (PBC Broadcasting of Savannah License, LLC) |
| First air date | March 22, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're Television for Georgia and South Carolina |
| Sister station(s) | WJCL |
| Former channel number(s) | 28 (UHF analog, 1985-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1982-1986) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 455 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 27245 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°2′46.2″N 81°20′26.2″W / 32.046167°N 81.340611°W |
WTGS is the Fox-affiliated television station for South Carolina's Lowcountry and Southeastern Georgia's Coastal Empire. Licensed to Hardeeville, South Carolina, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 27 (or virtual channel 28.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in unincorporated Western Chatham County, Georgia. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable and Charter channel 10 as well as Comcast channel 12. There is a high definition feed offered on Comcast digital channel 434, Charter digital channel 710 and Time Warner Cable digital channel 1125.
Owned by PBC Broadcasting, the station is operated by New Vision Television through a shared services agreement as sister to ABC affiliate WJCL. The two outlets share studios on Abercorn Extension/GA 204 in Savannah, Georgia's Hunters Chase section. Syndicated programming on WTGS includes How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, Family Guy and Everybody Hates Chris among others.
[edit] History
The station signed-on March 22, 1982 as the market's first general entertainment Independent outlet. It became a charter affiliate with Fox on October 9, 1986. Bluenose Broadcasting sold WTGS to California-based Parkin Broadcasting in May 2007 for $17.5 million. The station was previously owned by L.P. Media Inc., an affiliated company of Lewis Broadcasting which owned WJCL. Since Lewis' sale of WTGS and WJCL in 1999, the two outlets has been bought, sold, and refinanced twice. In fact in the most recent sale in 2007, WTGS was sold for $2 million less than its sale price in 1999 with WJCL.
Since the station's sale to L.P. Media in the early-1990s, WTGS has been a sister outlet to WJCL. That station was most recently sold to New Vision Television. Its broadcasts have been digital-only since February 17, 2009. On that date, WTGS shut down its analog signal and remained on its pre-transitional digital allotment. While owned-and-operated as a separate entity from WJCL, the station maintained facilities on Independence Boulevard/US 278/SC 141 in Hardeeville.
[edit] Newscasts
Through a news share agreement in place since the late-1990s, WJCL produces an hour-long nightly prime time newscast on this station. Currently known as WTGS News at Ten, the production maintains separate news anchors on weeknights. For awhile, WTGS also simulcasted WJCL's Good Morning Show on weekdays from 5 until 7 but that broadcast dropped at some point in time. On March 16, 2009, WJCL became the first outlet in Savannah to upgrade local newscasts to high definition and the nightly news on WTGS was included.
On October 28, 2010, it was announced the two outlets would combine operations with the Savannah Morning News and be relocated to the newspaper's facility on Chatham Parkway in Savannah. The actual date of consolidation has yet to be determined. It is the only Savannah-based television outlet to maintain a physical presence in South Carolina's Lowcountry with a bureau on Fording Island Road in Hilton Head.
News team
- Jesse Blanco - weeknight news anchor
- Lindsay Housaman - weeknight news anchor
- Nick Paradise - weekend news anchor and consumer reporter
- TBD - weeknight meteorologist
- James Hopkins - weekend meteorologist and news reporter
- Frank "The Big Guy" Sulkowski - Sports Director seen weeknights
- Allen Kinzly - weekend sports anchor and sports reporter
- Judy Helmey - "The Fishin' Report with Captain Judy" segment producer
- Maura Kennedy - news reporter and fill-in news anchor
- Deidre Johnson - education reporter
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