WGSA (TV)

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WGSA TV ("UPN 34") is the UPN affiliate indirectly serving the Savannah, Georgia market. The station, whose city of license is Baxley, Georgia, signed on the air as WUBI in 1992. It was an independent station at first, joining UPN in early 1997, after earlier becoming an affiliate of The WB ("WB 34").

WGSA, while part of the Savannah market, is too far from the city proper; as a result, WGSA's programming can be seen in Savannah on WGSA-CA channel 50, a low-powered repeater. Applied for in December 1989, WGSA-CA was originally W34BO, assigned in mid-November 1992. It became WUBI-LP (The WB) in late April 1996, then WGSA-LP in mid-September 1998. The upgrade to class A (-CA) came in August 2001.

In January 2006 it was announced that the WB and UPN would end operations in September 2006 to form The CW, a combination of the best programs from UPN and the WB.

It was announced on April 23 that WGSA TV and WGSA-CA will affiliate with The CW. It is unknown what the cable-only WB channel on cable TV channel 15 in Savannah via Comcast will do. My Network TV, a competing service from Fox, will be broadcast on a digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WSAV-TV.

Southern TV Corporation (the owner of both stations) will negotiate to take over cable channel 15. Because one station is out-of-market and the other is class A (LPTV), they are not covered by must-carry FCC regulations.

This too may change, as WGSA TV 34 now has a modified construction permit for digital TV on 35, which makes it high-power and puts the station's transmitter site just west of Savannah. [link] This would trigger must-carry requirements. WGSA-CA might then continue analog TV even after the U.S. Congress and FCC force full-power analog stations off-air. Because WGSA-CA is licensed separately and not as a broadcast translator, it could also become an independent digital at a later date.

This station also has an application for expanding its analog TV range, though it will be forced off with the others in February 2009. WGSA-CA might instead continue analog even after the U.S. Congress and FCC force full-power analog stations off-air in that month. (Because WGSA-CA is licensed separately and not as a broadcast translator, it could also become an independent digital at a later date.)

External links

• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WGSA]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WGSA-CA]

UPN Network Affiliates in the state of Georgia (U.S. state)>Georgia
WRDW-DT 31.2 () - WGSA 34 / WGSA-CA 50 () - WSWG 44 (/) - WGNM 64 () - WUPA 69 ()
'''See also: , , , , , and stations in Georgia

 

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