WHSG-TV (channel 63) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving the

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area as an owned-and-operated station of the

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(TBN). The station's studios are located on Agape Way in Decatur, and its transmitter is located in Atlanta's Cabbagetown section. Because it airs no local content (except for

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of the required

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), it is not carried as a local channel on

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; the network's national feed is already available, but TBN's subchannel sister networks are not available. It had one

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, W55BM, licensed to Marietta with transmitter atop

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, northwest of Atlanta. That station was later W49DE and WXID-LP, an affiliate of

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History

The station launched on March 15, 1991. As the

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indicates, it initially served as an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network, replacing WNGM (now

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). Later, TBN bought the station and changed to the current religious format.

Technical information

Subchannels

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Analog-to-digital transition

WHSG-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 63, on April 16, 2009.List of Digital Full-Power Stations
/ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using

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to display WHSG-TV's

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as 63 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. The station's analog transmitter was located in northern Rockdale County, halfway between Monroe and Atlanta. The station's digital facility is immediately south of Atlanta's

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neighborhood, along the north side of Interstate 20. This is the same tower used by

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(channel 69), built by that station when its original location (atop the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel) could not hold a second large TV antenna for digital, although WUPA has since moved to the North Druid Hills site, sharing an antenna through a

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. It also has

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(channel 40), an expired construction permit for W06CM-D (channel 6), and a license for

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on channel 16 (as well as a permit for 18 and a later app for 16 again). No serious damage occurred to the tower when the 2008 Atlanta tornado passed by the site, even though the then-analog WYGA-CA 45 (operating from the site under STA at very low power until WGCL-TV (channel 46) went digital) was knocked off-air. WHSG had an application to increase from 700 kW to its maximum 1,000 kW

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with the same antenna height, which is now licensed at the new site.

References

External links

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FCC coverage map for WHSG-TV
{{DEFAULTSORT:Whsg-Tv HSG-TV Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1991 1991 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Walton County, Georgia