WHSG-TV

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Coordinates: 33°44′40.9″N 84°21′35.7″W / 33.744694°N 84.359917°W / 33.744694; -84.359917
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WHSG-TV
  • kW
HAAT310.3 m (1,018.0 ft)
Transmitter coordinates33°44′40.9″N 84°21′35.7″W / 33.744694°N 84.359917°W / 33.744694; -84.359917
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Websitewww.tbn.org

WHSG-TV (channel 63) is a religious television station licensed to Monroe, Georgia, United States, serving the Atlanta area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located in Atlanta's Cabbagetown section.

Because it airs no local content (except for local insertion of the required station identification), it is not carried as a local channel on DirecTV; the network's national feed is already available, but TBN's subchannel sister networks are not available.

It had one broadcast translator, W55BM, licensed to Marietta with transmitter atop Sweat Mountain, northwest of Atlanta. That station was later W49DE and WXID-LP, an affiliate of JCTV.

History

The

construction permit for a new television station on channel 63 at Monroe was originally issued to a local permittee, Monroe Television, Inc., around 1987.[2] In December 1989, TBN purchased the permit and completed the station's construction;[3]
WHSG commenced operations on March 15, 1991, as a TBN owned-and-operated outlet.

During the late 1990s through the early 2010s, WHSG played an important role within TBN, as it originated a weekly edition of the network's flagship program

Matt Crouch's ascension to leadership of the ministry, after the death of his mother and TBN co-founder Jan Crouch. The station's studio on Agape Way in Decatur was officially closed by TBN in 2019 following the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s repeal of the Main Studio Rule, and later sold.[4]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of WHSG-TV
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
63.1 720p
16:9
 TBN HD Main TBN programming
63.2 Merit
Merit Street Media
63.3 480i
4:3
 Inspire TBN Inspire
63.4 16:9 SMILE Smile
63.5 POSITIV Positiv

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.[5]

Analog-to-digital transition

WHSG-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 63, on April 16, 2009.[6] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using PSIP to display WHSG-TV's virtual channel 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

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

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WHSG-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "For the Record–Call letters–Grants–New TV's" (PDF). Broadcasting. March 21, 1988. p. 74. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  3. ^ "For the Record–Ownership changes–Actions" (PDF). Broadcasting. December 11, 1989. p. 84. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  4. ^ Strang, Steve (July 15, 2019). "How Trump's New Regulation Cuts Will Save TBN $20 Million a Year for Gospel Purposes". Charisma. Archived from the original on August 12, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  5. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WHSG
  6. ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations

External links

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