WABW-TV

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
(satellite of WGTV,
Athens/Atlanta, Georgia)
Pelham/Albany, Georgia
United States
CityPelham, Georgia
ChannelsDigital: 6 (VHF)
Virtual: 14 (PSIP)
BrandingGPB
SloganTelevision Worth Sharing
Programming
Affiliations14.1: GPB/PBS
14.2: Create
14.3: GPB Knowledge
14.4: PBS Kids
Ownership
OwnerGeorgia Public Broadcasting
(Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission)
Sister stationsTV: WGTV, WXGA-TV, WVAN-TV, WNGH-TV, WCES-TV, WACS-TV, WJSP-TV, WMUM-TV
Radio: WUNV
History
First air dateJanuary 2, 1967 (1967-01-02)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
14 (UHF, 1967–2009)
Digital:
5 (VHF, until 2009)
Former affiliationsNET (1967–1970)
Call sign meaningWe Serve AlBany and West Georgia
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID23917
ERP10.5 kW
HAAT378 m (1,240 ft)
Transmitter coordinates31°8′5″N 84°6′16″W
Links
Public license information
(satellite of WGTV,
Athens/Atlanta, Georgia) Profile
LMS
Websitewww.gpb.org

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.

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.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
14.11080i16:9GPB-HDMain GPB programming / PBS
14.2480iCreateCreate
14.3KnowGPB Knowledge
14.4KidsPBS Kids

[1]

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).[2][3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.

See also

References
  1. RabbitEars TV Query for WABW
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "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.
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