WNGH-TV
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Chatsworth/Dalton, Georgia United States | |
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City | Chatsworth, Georgia |
Branding | GPB |
Slogan | Television Worth Sharing |
Channels | Digital: 33 (UHF) (to move to 4 (VHF)) Virtual: 18 (PSIP) |
Translators | W12DK-D 12 Young Harris W50AB 50 Hiawassee |
Affiliations | 18.1: GPB/PBS 18.2: Create 18.3: GPB Knowledge 18.4: PBS Kids |
Owner | Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission) |
First air date | January 30, 1967 |
Call letters' meaning | North Georgia Highlands |
Sister station(s) | TV: WGTV, WXGA-TV, WVAN-TV, WABW-TV, WCES-TV, WACS-TV, WJSP-TV, WMUM-TV Radio: WNGH-FM |
Former callsigns | WCLP (1967–1979) WCLP-TV (1979–2008) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 18 (UHF, 1967–2009) |
Former affiliations | NET (1967–1970) |
Transmitter power | 400 kW 11.4 kW (CP) |
Height | 550 m (1,804 ft) 566.8 m (1,860 ft) (CP) |
Facility ID | 23942 |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°45′2.3″N 84°42′52.7″W / 34.750639°N 84.714639°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information | (satellite of WGTV, Athens/Atlanta, Georgia) Profile (satellite of WGTV, Athens/Atlanta, Georgia) CDBS |
Website | www |
WNGH-TV, virtual channel 18 (UHF digital channel 33), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station serving Dalton, Georgia, United States that is licensed to Chatsworth.[1] Owned by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, it is a sister station to National Public Radio (NPR) member WNGH-FM (98.9 MHz). The two stations share transmitter facilities at Fort Mountain State Park east of Chatsworth. WNGH-TV is operated as part of the statewide Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) television network.
Despite its UHF frequency, the height of WNGH's transmitter gives it one of GPB's largest coverage areas. It penetrates for some distance into the core of the Chattanooga, Tennessee area; Chatsworth and Dalton are part of the Chattanooga market. It provides at least secondary coverage as far north as Athens, Tennessee and as far south as metro Atlanta's north-northwestern suburbs, many of which can no longer get GPB's flagship station, WGTV (channel 8). Two translator stations help bring the signal to the mountainous parts of the service area. Some network program duplication occurs with WTCI-TV (channel 45), the main PBS station for the Chattanooga area.
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History
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The station made its first broadcast on January 30, 1967 as WCLP, a National Educational Television (NET) and Georgia Educational Television network affiliate. In effect, it was also Chattanooga's first educational television station, as WTCI-TV did not start broadcasting until 1970. In early 1979, the station added the -TV suffix to its callsign, becoming WCLP-TV on February 2. In 2002, WCLP's digital signal started on channel 33.
On April 15, 2008, WCLP-TV changed its call sign to WNGH-TV, which matches GPB's new local FM radio station, WNGH-FM. After purchasing the FM station, its transmitter was moved to the same broadcast tower as the TV station, atop a mountain within Fort Mountain State Park.
Due to equipment failure in 2008, its analog signal was operating at reduced power (30% of normal, or 1500 kW) until it switched entirely to digital.
Translators
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All of WNGH's broadcast translators have been located near the state's borders regions with Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina—areas where coverage from a full-powered GPB transmitter is insufficient, due to the distance from the main transmitters and the terrain of the north Georgia mountains.
Currently, only W12DK-D is operating, having applied for and been granted a broadcast license to cover its construction permit in December 2009. It is atop Brasstown Bald, the highest point in the state, which will also hold the new 97-watt GPB radio station WBTB FM 90.3.
W12DK-D replaces two other stations that were recently operating:
- W04BJ Young Harris, Georgia, an analog station now permanently off-air since May 2008 due to equipment failure, was at a different location and had the same facility ID (23945) as W12DK-D because it was flash-cut to digital when it was moved and changed TV channels
- W50AB Hiawassee, Georgia, which applied for a digital license on 8 that was dismissed on May 2007, as it would be covered by W04BJ's digital broadcast range; it remains licensed and may possibly still be operating
Four others near Alabama had their analog licenses and digital applications or construction permits canceled, apparently at GPB's request:
- W27AA Draketown, Georgia, which applied for digital on 12 and was dismissed in October 2006, and canceled in November 2006
- W65AD Cedartown, Georgia, which applied for digital on 9 and received a permit, which was canceled in September 2007
- W35AA LaFayette, Georgia, which applied for digital on 7, was canceled in July 2007
- W51AB Flintstone, Georgia, etc., near Chattanooga, never applied for digital, canceled in September 2002
This was the largest number of translators assigned to any of the GPB stations. Two others are currently assigned to primary ("parent") station WGTV, though all stations simulcast at all times.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
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18.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WNGH-DT | Main GPB programming / PBS |
18.2 | 480i | Create | Create | |
18.3 | Knowled | GPB Knowledge | ||
18.4 | Kids | PBS Kids |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WNGH-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 18, on February 17, 2009, 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 remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 33.[3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 18.
References
- ^ "WNGH TV | Local TV Channel 18 (CHATSWORTH, GA)". NoCable.org. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WNGH
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
External links
- GPB Website
- GPB stations map – includes WNGH coverage area
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WNGH-TV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W12DK-D (former W04BJ)
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W50AB or its former digital companion
- Query the FCC's TV station database for DW27AA
- Query the FCC's TV station database for DW65AD
- Query the FCC's TV station database for DW35AA
- Query the FCC's TV station database for DW51AB
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WNGH-TV