WSKC-CD,

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channel 14, is a low-powered

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- affiliated

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Atlanta, Georgia 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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. The station is owned by KM LPTV of Atlanta, LLC.

History

Early Years

The original

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from 1984 was W04BR on channel 4. It was briefly assigned W59CZ in 1995 or 1996 while changing channels to 59. It became WSKC-LP after that and still identified itself as such, though its

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was changed with the

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to class A in 2005, making it WSKC-CA. It carried

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programming from

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. The analog station on channel 22, was located atop

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, and had a somewhat

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, originally aimed generally southeast toward

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. It was issued a

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to change from channel 59 at the same

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, and to rotate the existing

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about 45°

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toward the east. The original

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allotment for

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TV 8 was changed from 22 to 12 (and then to 8 in the

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). The station was granted a

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to digital on channel 22 at 800 watts, and an application filed in early August 2008 to increase this to 10 kilowatts. A later application also specified that the very

point to the southeast again (instead of east), where it would cover its actual

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of Atlanta, as well as

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Since 2008

Per an application made in 2008, the permit was extended and modified again in 2010, to transmit from a point on the Norcross side of

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, just south of the interchange of

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( Georgia 13 and

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) and Pleasant Hill Road. The station reaches all of

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and much of each surrounding county. During March 2009, WSKC-CA was off-air. In April 2009 it returned, again

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57.1. In late July 2010, the station was reported as being on-air but now with its new digital signal, carrying

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s 22.1 and 22.2, both identified as MBC. Once the station was granted its

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in early October 2010 to cover its digital changes, it became WSKC-CD, indicating a class A digital station. It applied for this license in August 2010, but the following week applied to modify the construction permit to increase power from 10 kW to 15 kW, and to rotate the slightly directional antenna (which has circular

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but offset from the center) so that the maximum power output is southwest toward metro Atlanta, instead of east.

Digital television

Digital channel

References

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