WABW-TV
| Satellite of WGTV, Athens/Atlanta, Georgia | |
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| City | Pelham, Georgia |
| Channels | |
| Branding | GPB |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | 14.1: GPB/PBS 14.2: Create 14.3: GPB Knowledge 14.4: PBS Kids |
| Ownership | |
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| TV: WGTV, WXGA-TV, WVAN-TV, WNGH-TV, WCES-TV, WACS-TV, WJSP-TV, WMUM-TV Radio: WUNV | |
| History | |
First air date | January 2, 1967 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 14 (UHF, 1967–2009) Digital: 5 (VHF, until 2009) |
| NET (1967–1970) | |
Call sign meaning | We Serve AlBany and West Georgia |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 23917 |
| ERP | 10.5 kW |
| HAAT | 378 m (1,240 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 31°8′5″N 84°6′16″W / 31.13472°N 84.10444°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | www |
WABW-TV, virtual channel 14 (VHF digital channel 6), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station serving Albany, Georgia, United States that is licensed to Pelham. Owned by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, it is a sister station to National Public Radio (NPR) member WUNV (91.7 FM). WABW-TV's transmitter is located in Pelham. The station is operated as part of the statewide Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) television network.
WABW-TV's signal travels in about a 50-mile (80 km) radius from the transmitter site, carrying it into the Tallahassee, Florida area. It provides city-grade coverage of most of the Georgia side of the Tallahassee market, including Thomasville. It has long been carried on cable in Tallahassee, giving residents of the Big Bend region a second option for PBS programming alongside WFSU-TV.
The broadcast tower was shared by W232AB (94.3 FM) in Camilla, which relayed GPB Radio from WABR (91.1 FM) in Tifton until its license was canceled on August 27, 2015.[citation needed]
Albany is served by two GPB TV channels, with WACS-TV in Americus as the other, but WABW is Albany's GPB station of record.
History
WABW-TV signed-on on January 2, 1967, as part of the Georgia Educational Television Network. It was the seventh educational television station in Georgia.[citation needed]
Digital television
Analog-to-digital conversion
On February 17, 2009, WABW-TV shut down its analog signal (over UHF channel 14) in accordance with the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated on its pre-transition VHF channel 5 to channel 6 (used by WCTV for analog operations).[3][4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.
See also
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WABW-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WABW
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
External links
- GPB website
- GPB stations map — includes WABW coverage area
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