WSKG-TV (channel 46) is a PBS member

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, United States. It is owned by the WSKG Public Telecommunications Council alongside NPR members WSKG-FM (89.3) and WSQX-FM (91.5). The three stations share studios on Gates Road in Vestal, New York; WSKG-TV's transmitter is located on Ingraham Hill in the town of Binghamton. WSKA (channel 30) in Corning operates as a full-time

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of WSKG-TV; this station's transmitter is located on Higman Hill. WSKA covers areas of south-central

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and north-central

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that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from WSKG, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. WSKA is a straight

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of WSKG; on-air references to WSKA are limited to

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(FCC)-mandated hourly

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s during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WSKA does not maintain any physical presence in Corning or Elmira. WSKA had begun broadcasting as of fall 2006 as a repeater station of WSKG.

Overview

The station was named for Stanley Kiehl Gambell, a prominent local clergyman who was active in children's television programming.

In popular culture

The station was featured in the '' Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?'' episode "WSKGone", where the station was stolen by the character Wonder Rat. Mike Zeigler (the president of WSKG at the time) recorded a message for the gumshoes involving

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television network

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Technical information

Subchannels

The stations' digital signals are multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

WSKG-TV shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 46, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 46.

Former repeaters

WSKG-TV once had many analog translators in operation across New York's

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. However, due to high operating costs, WSKG ceased the broadcasts, and surrendered the licenses of almost all of their television translators. W60AD (channel 60) in

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was their only TV translator remaining in recent years, until the repeater license was cancelled on January 13, 2012. It had an ERP of 650

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wskg-Tv Television channels and stations established in 1968 1968 establishments in New York (state) SKG-TV PBS member stations