WTHC-LD (

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42 and VHF

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channel 3) is a low-powered

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Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

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, United States. From 1994 to 2007, it was owned and operated by The Atlanta Channel, Inc., which also

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the channel into many local

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s. Programming consists almost entirely of recorded

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for

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staying in downtown hotels, although the signal can usually be picked up as far away as

Sandy Springs Sandy Springs is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia and an inner ring suburb of Atlanta. The city's population was 108,080 at the 2020 census, making it Georgia's seventh-largest city. It is the site of several corporate headquarters, i ...

, about ten miles or 15 km away. The station is itself atop Atlanta's most well-known hotel, the

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, on a mast constructed for WVEU (channel 69, now

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), along with other stations. Due to

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as an

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station, it is now a

-only station, which also allows a much greater

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on its 7-

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signal (although

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is also extremely prone to multipath). It received a digital flash-cut permit in March 2006 and quickly made the switch by very early April, making it one of the first low-powered digital television stations in the country. The station's only active

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( virtual 42.1) uses an

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History

Originally applied for in early 1981, it was assigned W63BB on channel 63 in mid-1987. After several modifications and extensions to its unbuilt

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, it moved and became W42BQ on analog channel 42 in late 1992, making way for the new

WHSG-TV WHSG-TV (channel 63) is a religious television station licensed to Monroe, Georgia, United States, serving the Atlanta area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's studios are located on Agape Wa ...

on 63. After finally going on the air in 1993, it became The Atlanta Channel in 1994, and the

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WTHC-LP was assigned by request in early 2000. It was automatically changed by the FCC in July 2009 to WTHC-LD, even though it had already been digital for three years. In 2007, The Atlanta Channel, Inc. and the station were sold to Beach TV Properties, Inc., owners of a similarly formatted station in

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, among others.

Digital television

Digital channel

References

External links

WMV streaming of The Atlanta Channel
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wthc-Ld Low-power television stations in the United States THC-LD

History

Digital television

Digital channel

See also

References

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