WJSP-TV

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WJSP-TV
Columbus / Warm Springs, Georgia
Branding	GPB
Slogan	Bringing you The Best
Channels	28 (UHF) analog, 23 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Georgia Public Broadcasting
Founded	March 28, 1964
Call letters meaning	W James S. Peters
Former affiliations	NET (1964-1970)
Transmitter Power	5000 kW (analog) 250 kW (digital)
Website	www.gpb.org

WJSP-TV channel 28 (DTV 23), part of the GPB network, serves Columbus, Georgia and the surrounding west-central Georgia and far east-central Alabama region. The transmitter and radio antenna are located just south of Warm Springs, on the same radio tower as WJSP-FM 88.1. It is one of only two GPB stations actually licensed to a major Georgia city, the other being WVAN-TV in Savannah. However, to conform to GPB's pattern of naming two cities in station IDs, the station is shown as "WJSP-TV 28, Columbus / Warm Springs".

The station's signal travels in about a 45-mile (72km) radius from the transmitter site, though this is variable since it uses a directional antenna.^[1] The signal also reaches far south-southwest metro Atlanta. There is also one broadcast translator, W49AD, channel 49 in Carrollton.

WJSP primarily serves the northern and central part of the Columbus TV market. The southern part of the Columbus market is served by Dawson's WACS-TV. While WJSP is the official GPB station for Columbus, the city generally gets a better signal from WACS.

The station had originally chosen to return to channel 28 for digital TV during the first-round digital channel election, but due to an interference conflict it was forced to remain on 23.

[edit] History

WJSP-TV signed on March 28, 1964 as the fifth public television station in Georgia. Its somewhat reduced-power digital signal, on channel 23, began in 2003.

The channel 28 frequency was originally home to WTVM from 1953 to 1960, when they moved to channel 9.

WJSP's callsign is from the initials of long-time Georgia legislator and member of the state's board of education, James S. Peters of Manchester, Georgia.

[edit] External links

• GPB Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WJSP
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W49AD

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

Broadcast television in the Columbus, Georgia market  (Nielsen DMA #127)
WRBL 3 (CBS) - WTVM 9 (ABC) - WCGT-LP 16 (IND) - WACS 25 (PBS/GPB) - WJSP 28 (PBS/GPB) - WLTZ 38 (NBC) - WGIQ 43 (PBS/APT) - WXTX 54 (FOX/MNTV) (The Tube on DT2) - WLGA 66 (The CW)
See also: Broadcast television stations in the Albany, Montgomery, Macon, Dothan and Atlanta Markets

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