WHSG-TV

WHSG-TV

Monroe/Atlanta, Georgia United States
City	Monroe, Georgia
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 63
Programming
Affiliations	63.1: TBN 63.2: Hillsong Channel 63.3: Smile 63.4: Enlace 63.5: Positiv
Ownership
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network (Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.)
History
First air date	March 15, 1991 (30 years ago) (1991-03-15)
Former call signs	WHSG (1991–1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 63 (UHF, 1991–2009) Digital: 44 (UHF, 2009–2019) Translator: W49DE 49 (UHF) Marietta
Former affiliations	HSN (1991–1998)
Call sign meaning	Home Shopping Network Georgia (former owners), backronymed to His Saving Grace
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	68058
Class	DT
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	310.3 m (1,018 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	33°44′40.9″N 84°21′35.7″W / 33.744694°N 84.359917°W / 33.744694; -84.359917Coordinates: 33°44′40.9″N 84°21′35.7″W / 33.744694°N 84.359917°W / 33.744694; -84.359917
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	www.tbn.org

WHSG-TV, virtual channel 63 (UHF digital channel 22), is a TBN owned-and-operated station serving Atlanta, Georgia, United States that is licensed to Monroe. The station is owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. WHSG's studios are located on Agape Way in Decatur, and its transmitter is located in Atlanta's Cabbagetown section.

Because it airs no local content (except for local insertion of the required station identification), it is not carried as a local channel on DirecTV; the network's national feed is already available, but TBN's subchannel sister networks are not available. Conversely, WUVM-LD (channel 4) is carried on DirecTV instead.

It had one broadcast translator, W55BM, licensed to Marietta with transmitter atop Sweat Mountain, northwest of Atlanta. That station was later W49DE and WXID-LP, an affiliate of JCTV.

History[]

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The channel launched on March 15, 1991. As the call sign indicates, this was an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network throughout much of the 1991–1998 time frame, replacing WNGM (now WUVG). In 1999, TBN bought the station and changed to the current religious format.

Digital television[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.^[1]

WHSG-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 63, on April 16, 2009.^[2] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using PSIP to display WHSG-TV's virtual channel as 63 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

The station's analog transmitter was located in northern Rockdale County, halfway between Monroe and Atlanta. The station's digital facility is immediately south of Atlanta's Inman Park neighborhood, along the north side of Interstate 20. This is the same tower used by WUPA (channel 69), built by that station when its original location (atop the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel) could not hold a second large TV antenna for digital, although both WHSG and WUPA have since moved to the North Druid Hills site, sharing an antenna through a diplexer. It also has WIRE-CD (channel 40), an expired construction permit for W06CM-D (channel 6), and a license for WYGA-CD on channel 16 (as well as a permit for 18 and a later app for 16 again). No serious damage occurred to the tower when the 2008 Atlanta tornado passed by the site, even though the then-analog WYGA-CA 45 (operating from the site under STA at very low power until WGCL-TV (channel 46) went digital) was knocked off-air. WHSG had an application to increase from 700 kW to its maximum 1000 kW effective radiated power with the same antenna height, which is now licensed at the new site.

References[]

External links[]

• TBN official website
  • FCC coverage map for WHSG-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database — Information on WHSG-TV