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| City | Baxley, Georgia |
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| Founded | November 1, 1991 (1991-11-01) |
First air date | May 1, 1992 (1992-05-01) |
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Call sign meaning | We're in South Carolina and Georgia |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 69446 |
| ERP | 1,000kW |
| HAAT | 349 m (1,145 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°2′46.2″N81°20′26.2″W / 32.046167°N 81.340611°W /32.046167; -81.340611 (WGSA) |
| Translator(s) | see§ Translators |
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| Website | www |
WSCG (channel 34) is areligious television station licensed toBaxley, Georgia, United States, serving theSavannah area as anowned-and-operated station ofTri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's studios are located on Sams Point Road inBeaufort, South Carolina, and its transmitter is located on Fort Argyle Road/SR 204 in unincorporated westernChatham County, Georgia. WSCG is one of a few TCT owned-and-operated stations to maintain its own studio facilities as other TCT O&Os ended their local operations in 2018.
The station signed on as WUBI on May 1, 1992, and aired ananalog signal on UHF channel 34. It was anindependent station at first but joinedThe WB in 1995 and became known as "WB 34". The station switched toUPN in early 1997 as "UPN 13" (using the station'scable channel for branding) afterABC affiliateWJCL (channel 22) originally carried UPN as a secondary affiliation. From 1997 to 1998, The WB's programming was only seen on cable and satellite providers in the Baxley and Savannah areas via thenational feed ofChicago-basedsuperstationWGN-TV. From 1998 onwards, WGN was displaced on those providers by a cable-only WB-affiliated station using the fictional call letters "WBVH" (known on-air as "WB 15") as a member ofThe WB 100+ Station Group.
During the analog era, WGSA's transmitter was located on the western fringe of the Savannahmarket and was too far away to provide most of the area with a good signal. As a result, it was seen in Savannah itself onClass Arepeater WGSA-CA. That repeater was originally W34BO and was assigned in mid-November 1992 on channel 34 but the frequency proved problematic. It became WUBI-LP on channel 38 in late-April 1996 but there were still reception problems. It became WGSA-LP on channel 50 in mid-September 1998 with a further upgrade to Class A (-CA) status in August 2001. The WGSA-CA license was canceled by theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 3, 2015, due to the station having beensilent since May 2, 2012.
In January 2006, it was announced that The WB and UPN would end operations in September 2006 to formThe CW, a combination of the best programs from both networks. It was made public on April 23 that WGSA would affiliate with The CW. In response to this announcement,Comcast removed "WBVH" from its channel lineup. Its successor,The CW Plus, affiliated with WGCW-LP, a low power station co-owned with WGSA on channel 38 and available exclusively on Comcast channel 240 as part of their digital lineup. WGCW was also available over-the-air via WGSA's second digital subchannel until September 11, 2016.
WGSA had a modifiedconstruction permit fordigital television on channel 35 which made it high-power for the first time and put the station's transmitter site just west of Savannah.[2] On September 28, 2007, theSavannah Morning News reported after years of being the only local station Comcast rebroadcast from an over-the-air signal, WGSA had a fiber-optic cable placed into theirmaster control connecting directly to the cable company giving the station a much clearer signal.[3]
On April 1, 2016, it was announced that WGSA would lose its CW affiliation to the second digital subchannel ofWSAV-TV on September 12 of that year.[4][5][6] Following aChapter 11 bankruptcy auction in September 2017, Lowcountry 34 Media, LLC (operated by Jeff and Janet Winemiller) agreed to buy the station from Southern TV Corporation for $1.2 million.[7] Lowcountry 34 Media had reserved the call sign WSCG for assignment when it took control February 1, 2018.[8] WSCG resumed broadcasting April 1, 2018, under new ownership.
On May 21, 2019, it was announced that Lowcountry 34 Media would sell WSCG toHC2 Holdings for $2.6 million. The sale received FCC approval on July 2, 2019; however, Winemiller Television filed a notice of non-consummation of the purchase on November 7.[9][10][11] Subsequently, on January 28, 2020, Lowcountry 34 Media announced it would sell the station toMarion, Illinois–based Tri-State Christian Television for $3 million. The sale was completed on April 1, making WSCG anowned-and-operated station of the TCT Network and the first full-powerreligious station in the Savannah market.[12][13] In addition, Lowcountry 34 Media also announced that it would sell WSCG-LD and translator WGCB-LD toMarquee Broadcasting.[14]
In-early October 2013, WGSA established a news share agreement withNBC affiliate WSAV-TV, channel 3 (at the time owned byMedia General). The arrangement resulted in a prime time newscast debuting on this station.[15] Known on-air asWSAV News 3 at 10, the program was seen for thirty minutes on weeknights. It was effectively "moved" from previously airing at 7 p.m. onMyNetworkTV/MeTV outlet WSAV-DT2 (now a CW affiliate). With the switch to 10 o'clock, the show later broadcast in high definition on WGSA and was seen through astandard definition simulcast on WSAV-DT2. The newscast was also streamed live on WSAV's website.[16]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 34.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WSCG HD | TCT |
| 34.2 | 480i | TrueCri | True Crime Network | |
| 34.3 | Cozi | Cozi TV | ||
| 34.4 | Quest | Quest | ||
| 34.5 | SBN | Sonlife | ||
| 34.6 | Buzzr | MeTV Toons | ||
| 34.7 | Heroes | Heroes & Icons | ||
| 34.8 | Start | Start TV | ||
| 34.9 | INFO CH | Infomercials | ||
| 34.10 | 4:3 | ONTV4U | OnTV4U |
WSCG (as WGSA) shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 34, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were totransition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 35.[18][19]
In addition to its main signal, WSCG operated two digital translators.
The two former translators now operate independently as WSCG-LD and WGCB-LD, respectively, with WSCG-LD broadcasting its own programming and WGCB-LD acting as its translator. WGSA's signal was also repeated by WGCW-LP inSavannah, Georgia. WGCW-LP's license was canceled by the FCC effective February 16, 2017, due to having been silent since September 12, 2016.
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