WCLP-TV

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WCLP-TV (satellite of WGTV, Athens, Georgia)

Chatsworth / Dalton, Georgia
Branding	GPB
Slogan	Bringing you the Best
Channels	18 (UHF) analog, 33 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Georgia Public Broadcasting
Founded	January 30, 1967
Former affiliations	NET (1967-1970)
Transmitter Power	5000 kW (analog) & 426 kW (digital)
Website	www.gpb.org/

WCLP-TV, channel 18 (digital 33), is a PBS television station licensed to Chatsworth, Georgia, and is part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) network, serving northwestern Georgia and the Chattanooga area. Despite its UHF frequency, WCLP is one of GPB's strongest stations, with a coverage area as far north as Athens, Tennessee and as far south as metro Atlanta's north-northwestern suburbs. Several nearby translator stations help bring the signal to the mountainous parts of the service area. However, some network program duplication occurs with WTCI-TV, the PBS station that serves Chattanooga, northwest Georgia, northeast Alabama, and the extreme southwestern part of western North Carolina. WTCI-TV is seen in much of GPB's coverage area.

[edit] History

WCLP-TV began on January 30, 1967 as a National Educational Television and Georgia Educational Television Network affiliate. In effect, it was also Chattanooga's first educational station, as WTCI-TV didn't sign on until 1970. In 2002 WCLP's digital signal started on channel 33. WTCI's digital signal is channel 29.

In the first-round digital channel election, WCLP chose to return to channel 18 for full-power digital operations after analog shutdown. However, an interference conflict forced it to stay on 33 permanently.

[edit] Translators

All of WCLP's translators are located near the state's borders regions with Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina -- areas where coverage from a full-powered GPB transmitter is insufficient, due to the distance from the main transmitters and the terrain of the north Georgia mountains.

W27AA Draketown, Georgia, which has applied for digital on 12
W65AD Cedartown, Georgia, which has applied for digital on 9
W35AA LaFayette, Georgia, which has applied for digital on 7
W04BJ Young Harris, Georgia, which has applied for digital on 12
W50AB Hiawassee, Georgia, which has not applied for a separate digital channel
W51AB Flintstone, Georgia

This is the largest number of translators assigned to any of the GPB stations. Others are assigned to primary ("parent") stations WGTV and WJSP-TV. Though this issue is rather moot, as all GPB stations carry the same programming and idents.

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Broadcast television in the Chattanooga market (Nielsen DMA #86)
WRCB 3 (NBC) - WTVC 9 (ABC) - WDEF 12 (CBS) - WCLP 18 (PBS/GPB) - WELF 23 (TBN) - W26BE 26 (3ABN) - WYHB-CA 39 (A1)- WLFW-LP 41 (FamilyNet) - WTCI 45 (PBS) - WDNN-CA 49/WCNT-LP 36 (IND) - WFLI 53 (CW) - WDSI 61 (Fox/MNTV on DT2)
Defunct Television Channels
WOOT-LP 6 (Ind)

PBS Member Stations in the state of Georgia
GPB: WGTV 8 (Atlanta) - WXGA 8 (Waycross/Valdosta) - WVAN 9 (Savannah) - WABW 14 (Albany) - WCLP 18 (Dalton) - WCES 20 (Augusta) - WACS 25 (Dawson/Americus) - WJSP 28 (Columbus) - WMUM 29 (Macon) Other: WPBA 30 (Atlanta)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, and Other stations in Georgia