WJSP-TV
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| WJSP-TV (satellite of WGTV, Athens/Atlanta, Georgia) |
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| Columbus/Warm Springs, Georgia | |
| Branding | GPB |
| Slogan | Bringing You the Best |
| Channels | Analog: 28 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission) |
| First air date | August 10, 1964 |
| Call letters’ meaning | James S. Peters |
| Sister station(s) | WJSP-FM |
| Former affiliations | NET (1964-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 5000 kW (analog) 250 kW (digital) |
| Height | 461 m (analog) 462 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 23918 |
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| 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. This station's digital companion channel is a construction permit for W13DJ-D on channel 13, not yet on-air as of January 2008.
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 permanently on 23.
[edit] History
WJSP-TV signed on August 10, 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
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WJSP-TV
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