WACS-TV

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WACS-TV (satellite of WGTV, Athens/Atlanta, Georgia)
Dawson/Americus, Georgia
Branding	GPB
Slogan	Bringing You the Best
Channels	Analog: 25 (UHF) Digital: 8 (VHF)
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission)
First air date	March 6, 1967
Call letters’ meaning	AmeriCuS
Former affiliations	NET (1967-1970)
Transmitter Power	501 kW (analog) 6 kW (digital)
Height	329 m (analog) 313 m (digital)
Facility ID	23930
Transmitter Coordinates	31°56′12.3″N, 84°33′13″W
Website	www.gpb.org

WACS-TV channel 25, part of the GPB network, is Georgia's ninth public television station, and primarily serves the southern part of the Columbus market, including Dawson and Americus. WACS' transmitter is located north of Parrott, Georgia. The station's signal travels in about a 40-mile (64-km) radius from the transmitter site and also reaches parts of southeastern Alabama.

It also serves Albany, Georgia, though that city's GPB station of record is Pelham's WABW, channel 14.

Viewers in Columbus are well within the WACS coverage area, even though their GPB station of record is WJSP-TV, whose fringes just barely reach Columbus itself.

WACS, WJSP and WABW are all satellites of Athens/Atlanta's WGTV, the network's flagship station. They carry an identical broadcast schedule.

[edit] Tower destruction

In March 2007, the station's broadcast tower was destroyed by one of several tornadoes which struck the region during an outbreak on March 1. The same tornado, rated an EF3, went on to cause serious destruction in Americus. [1] Cable TV viewers will continue to receive GPB directly from satellite, or over-the-air via neighboring GPB stations WJSP or WABW, while GPB works to replace the tower and the transmitter building it partly fell on.

[edit] History

WACS-TV channel 25 signed on the air on March 6, 1967. Its digital signal will be on channel 8 with roughly the same coverage.

[edit] External links

• GPB Website
• WACS TV Lineup and Demographic Data
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WACS
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WACS-TV

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Columbus / Opelika market  (Nielsen DMA #128) WRBL 3 (CBS) - W06BH 6 (Religious) - WTVM 9 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT2) - WWCG-LP 11 (WSTV) - WYBU-CA 16 (CTN) - WACS 25 (PBS/GPB) - WJSP 28 (PBS/GPB) - WLTZ 38 (NBC) - WGIQ 43 (PBS/APT) - WXTX 54 (FOX/MNTV) - WLGA 66 (The CW) See also: Broadcast television stations in the Albany, Montgomery, Macon, Dothan and Atlanta Markets

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Albany, Georgia market  (Nielsen DMA #146) WALB 10 (NBC) - WFXL 31 (FOX) - WABW 14 (PBS/GPB) - WACS 25 (PBS/GPB) - W34CZ 34 (TBN) - WSWG 43 (CBS/MNTV on DT2) - WSST 55 (Ind) Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location Tallahassee: WCTV 6 (CBS/MNTV on DT2) Columbus: WRBL 3 (CBS) - WTVM 9 (ABC) Atlanta: WSB 2 (ABC) Macon: WMAZ 13 (CBS) - WPGA 58 (ABC)

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