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WNEG-TV to end commercial broadcasts, become noncom WUGA-TV

jal41

jal41

http://www.ajc.com/news/uga-tv-station-to-787745.html
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/43311/

UGA's attempt to operate a commercial TV station has failed. Under a new agreement with Georgia Public Broadcasting, WNEG-TV will become a noncom under the WUGA-TV callsign. GPB will provide programming from it's GPB Knowledge subchannel to supplement local programming. The station will NOT become a full GPB station (although there is a coverage gap in the Toccoa area that could be filled if this experiment fails). UGA will continue to hold the license and operate the station.

Basically...UGA's hopes of putting sports on the station after signing away all of the rights to them to ISP Sports did them in. The programming will be educational...which in my opinion is a much better use of the station then sports and movies.
 
According to the articles, UGA filed with the FCC to change the license from commercial to non-commercial.

Are PBS and educational stations required to be licensed as non-commercial?
 
azumanga said:
Are PBS and educational stations required to be licensed as non-commercial?
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No, at least not by the FCC. (I don't know what PBS's rules are)

However, my understanding is non-commercial stations are exempt from filing (and renewal) fees.
 
WNEG TV has struggled since the day it went on the air in 1984. Toccoa is not large enough to sustain the budget required for a commercial television station. The local ownership (Gaines) kept it afloat until WSPA TV Spartanburg step in in the early 90s. They also probably lost money...then UGA took a stabb in 08 and lost their butt, pitiful, pitiful programing.
My hope is, the station (dt24) will join GPTV in it's entirety so that we (Northeast Georgia) can receive GPTV ota. We have a pbs on real ch8 in Toccoa, but pbs also broadcast on ch 8 from Stone Mt. which means one signal cancels the other. Also due to the location of the GPBTV transmitter here, it is at a 90 degree null to antennas pointed toward Atlanta or the Carolina stations While the WNEG TV transmitter is at the same location (600 ft apart), it has much more power and covers most of N E Ga. GPTV could kill three low power transmitters in our area, cover more families with the WNEG signal if they would just do it.
 
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