| Savannah/Pembroke, Georgia | |
|---|---|
| Branding | GPB |
| Slogan | Television worth sharing |
| Channels | Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels |
9.1 - GPB/PBS HD (1080i) |
| Network | PBS |
| Owner | Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission) |
| First air date | September 17, 1963 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're in SaVANnah, Georgia |
| Sister station(s) | WSVH |
| Former channel number(s) | 9 (VHF analog, 1963-2009) 13 (VHF digital, 2000-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1963-1970) |
| Transmitter power | 20 kW |
| Height | 293 m (961 ft) |
| Facility ID | 23947 |
| Website | www.gpb.org |
WVAN-TV channel 9 is a non-commercial educational television station located in Savannah, Georgia, USA. WVAN-TV is part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting public television network and carries programming from PBS, GPB and other sources. The station's transmitter is co-located with sister radio station WSVH (91.1 FM) on a broadcast tower in Pembroke, west of Savannah and just north of Fort Stewart.
The station's signal travels in about a 45-mile (75 km) radius from the TV antenna site. Like most stations in the Savannah media market, it also serves the extreme southern tip of South Carolina including Beaufort and Hilton Head Island.
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WVAN-TV began broadcasting on September 17, 1963 as the fourth educational TV station in the state of Georgia. In 2000, WVAN's temporary digital signal on channel 13 was activated, making it one of the first for GPB TV. In 2009, its last analog TV transmission was turned off on February 17 at midnight (11:59PM), and its digital signal was moved permanently back to channel 9, requiring viewers to re-scan ATSC tuners to find the station's channels again. GPB did the same with at least two other stations.
In station IDs for GPB's television stations, each station lists two cities in its legal ID -- the smaller community where the station is licensed (usually the transmitter location), and the larger city it serves. However, WVAN is actually licensed to serve 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.
WVAN-TV broadcasts the following digital subchannels:
| Channel | Label | Format | Aspect | Programming |
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| 9.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | GPB (mainly PBS) main programming, with HDTV content | |
| 9.2 | 480i | 16:9 | GPB Kids (PBS Kids) in windowboxed SD, since January 2009 Formerly main GPB programming in SD and GPB Radio on SAP, changed in mid-December 2008 to a placeholder station ID for future GPB Kids |
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| 9.3 | 480i | 4:3 | GPB Knowledge (mainly PBS World) in letterboxed SDTV |
Programming is the same on all nine stations, but channel labels differ somewhat between them.
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