WABW-TV digital channel 6 (Ex-Analog Channel 14) part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting

Georgia Public Broadcasting

Georgia Public Broadcasting is the public broadcasting radio and television state network in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is operated by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission....

 (GPB) public broadcasting

Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...

 network, serves Albany

Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the...

 and southwestern Georgia, from its transmitter in Pelham

Pelham, Georgia

Pelham is a city in Mitchell County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,126 at the 2000 census. It was named for famed American Civil War officer John Pelham.-Geography:Pelham is located at ....

. The station's signal travels in about a 50-mile (80-km) radius from the transmitter site, carrying it into the Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, and is the 128th largest city in the United States. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2010, the population recorded by...

 and central north Florida

North Florida

North Florida refers to the northernmost part of the U.S. state of Florida, including some counties that border the state of Georgia. It also borders the Big Bend with Madison County and Taylor County to the east and the Central Florida region to its south....

 area also.

The broadcast tower is shared by W232AB 94.3 Camilla

Camilla, Georgia

As of the census of 2000, there were 5,669 people, 1,994 households, and 1,405 families residing in the city. The population density was 929.4 people per square mile . There were 2,128 housing units at an average density of 348.9 per square mile...

, which retransmits GPB Radio from WABR

WABR (FM)

WABR is a radio station licensed to Tifton, Georgia. The station is owned by Georgia Public Broadcasting, and is an affiliate of GPB's radio network.-External links:*...

 FM 91.1 Tifton, but is not owned by GPB.

Albany is served by two GPB TV channels, with WACS-TV

WACS-TV

WACS-TV, part of the GPB network, is Georgia's ninth public television station, and primarily serves the southern part of the Columbus market, including Dawson and Americus. WACS' transmitter is located north of Parrott, Georgia...

 in Dawson as the other, but WABW is Albany's GPB station of record.

WABW-TV signed on January 2, 1967 as part of the Georgia Educational Television Network. It was the seventh educational television

Educational television

Educational television is the use of television programs in the field of distance education. It may be in the form of individual television programs or dedicated specialty channels that is often associated with cable television in the United States as Public, educational, and government access ...

 station in Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

.

Digital

WABW's broadcasts are digital-only, effective (as originally scheduled) on February 17, 2009.

WABW's digital signal was slated to operate on channel 5 and transmit from the WCTV

WCTV

WCTV is the CBS-affiliated television station for southwest Georgia and Tallahassee, Florida that is licensed to Thomasville, Georgia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 from a transmitter in Metcalf along the Georgia and Florida state line. This is 609.6 meters high...

 tower in Metcalf, Georgia

Metcalf, Georgia

Metcalf is a small village in southwestern Georgia. Near Metcalf there is the WCTV Tower, the tallest structure in Georgia. A lumberyard is located on the main highway. There are two churches located in Metcalf, Friendship Baptist and Metcalf Methodist Church. Friendship Baptist is one of the...

, near the Georgia/Florida border. After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion was completed, WABW's digital broadcasts remained on channel 6 (after WCTV's analog signal ended on 6) and transmits from WABW's current analog tower in Pelham. Through the use of PSIP

Program and System Information Protocol

The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...

, digital television receivers will continue to display WABW's virtual channel

Virtual channel

In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

as 14.1.

External links

• GPB website
  • GPB stations map — includes WABW coverage area