WVAN-TV

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WVAN-TV (satellite of WGTV, Athens/Atlanta, Georgia)
Savannah/Pembroke, Georgia
Branding	GPB
Slogan	Bringing You the Best
Channels	Analog: 9 (VHF) Digital: 13 (VHF)
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission)
First air date	September 1963[1]
Call letters’ meaning	SaVANnah
Sister station(s)	WSVH
Former affiliations	NET (1963-1970)
Transmitter Power	316 kW (analog) 20 kW (digital)
Height	320 m (analog) 293 m (digital)
Facility ID	23947
Transmitter Coordinates	32°8′49.2″N, 81°37′4.3″W
Website	www.gpb.org

WVAN-TV channel 9 (DTV 13), part of the GPB network, serves Savannah, Georgia and the upper portions of the Georgia Atlantic Coast with public television programming from PBS and other sources. The transmitter is located in Pembroke; the station's signal travels in about a 45-mile radius from the transmitter site. Like most stations in the Savannah market, it also serves the extreme southern tip of South Carolina, including Beaufort and Hilton Head Island.

Contents 1 History 2 Station ID 3 External links 4 References

[edit] History

In September 1963, WVAN-TV channel 9 signed on and became the fourth educational station in the state of Georgia. In 2000 WVAN's digital signal on channel 13 was activated.

[edit] Station ID

In Station IDs for GPB's television stations, each station has two cities -- the smaller community the station's licensed in (usually the transmitter location), and the larger city it serves. However, WVAN is actually licensed to Savannah. To conform to the pattern, WVAN's second city is Pembroke, where its transmitter is located. A similar situation exists for WJSP-TV, which is licensed to Columbus, Georgia with transmitter in Warm Springs.

[edit] External links

• GPB Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WVAN
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WVAN-TV

[edit] References

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Savannah market  (Nielsen DMA #97) WSAV 3 (NBC) (MNTV/RTN on DT2) - WVAN 9 (PBS/GPB) - WTOC 11 (CBS) - WJWJ 16 (PBS/SCETV) - WHDS 20 (TMD) - WJCL 22 (ABC) - WTGS 28 (Fox) - WGSA 34/50 (The CW) - WXSX 46 (MTV2) - W48CX 48 (A1) - W57CT 57 (TBN) Defunct local cable television channels WBVH 13 (The WB)

v • d • e PBS Member Stations in the state of Georgia GPB: WGTV 8 (Atlanta) - WXGA 8 (Waycross/Valdosta) - WVAN 9 (Savannah) - WABW 14 (Albany) - WNGH 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

v • d • e Georgia Public Broadcasting Television: WGTV · WJSP · WMUM · WABW · WACS · WCES · WNGH · WVAN · WXGA Radio: WGPB · WUWG · WJSP · WMUM · WWIO · WNGU · WSVH · WUGA · WUNV · WWET · WXVS · WPPR · WJWV · WACG · WABR · WNGH · WWIO · WWIO-FM