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WGTV TV channel 8 ( DTV 12) is the metro Atlanta station for Georgia Public Broadcasting, Georgia's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network.

The station transmits at from the top of Stone Mountain, located just east of Atlanta in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The city of license is Athens, Georgia. It is considered the flagship station of GPTV. and has several LPTV broadcast translatorIn broadcasting, a translator is an FM radio station or a TV station which acts as a full-duplex repeater. Just as a verbal translator (person) listens in one language and speaks in another, a broadcast translator receives a signal from one channel and trs, mainly in the mountainsThe Appalachian Mountains are a system of North American mountains running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama in the United States, although the northernmost mainland portion ends at the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. The system is divided into.

WGTV signed on the air in 1958Events January January 1 Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented January 4 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957) January 8 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship January 18 Armed Lumbee Nat, licensed to the University of GeorgiaLocated 60 miles northeast of Atlanta in Athens, Georgia, the University of Georgia was the first state- chartered university in the United States, making it the birthplace of the American system of public higher education. It was incorporated January 27, and operating out of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education . The station's VHF allocation was originally occupied by WSB-TVWSB-TV channel 2 ( DTV 39) is an Atlanta TV station, and was the first TV station in the South. It has been an ABC affiliate since 1980. Until then, it was NBC, and the exact opposite is true of WXIA-TV 11. Its transmitter is located in Atlanta. It is own, which at that time was owned by the Atlanta Journal. The Journals competitor in Atlanta, the Atlanta Constitution, had applied for and received from the FCCThe acronym FCC can refer to: Farm Credit Corporation/ Farm Credit Canada, a Canadian government organization Federal Communications Commission, a US government organization Families with Children from China, an adoption support organization Florida Chris an construction permit for channel 2, which was to be called WCON-TV. When the Journal and Constitution merged, media ownership rules of the day did not permit one entity to own two television stations in the same market. Plans for WCON-TV were scrapped, WSB-TV moved to channel 2 from channel 8, and the channel 8 slot was given to the University for an educational television station. In 1982, ownership of the license was transferred from the University of Georgia to the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission , a precursor to Georgia Public Broadcasting.

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  Television: WGTV | WJSP | WDCO | WABW | WACS | WCES | WCLP | WVAN | WXGA  
 Radio: WUWG | WJSP | WDCO | WWIO | WNGU | WSVH | WUGA | WUNV | WWET | WXVS | WPPR | WJWV | WACG | WABR | WWIO  

 

 

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