WGNM digital channel 45 is a television station

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 in Macon, Georgia

Macon, Georgia

Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...

. It is an owned and operated station, broadcasting the programming of the Christian Television Network

Christian Television Network

Christian Television Network is a non-profit broadcast television network of small owned-and-operated stations that broadcasts religious programming. It is based in Largo, Florida , and the flagship station is WCLF channel 22, which signed on the air in the Tampa Bay Florida region in 1979...

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On 2 September 2006, thirteen days before the shutdown of the network, WGNM's contract with UPN

UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

 came to an end. Subsequently, WGNM became a full time CTN affiliate

Affiliate

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In 2008, WGNM ceased analog TV broadcasts on channel 64 on February 1. The station originally planned to keep the analog signal until the 2009 conversion

DTV transition in the United States

The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...

. It is the only full-power station in Georgia to end analog before the original 2009 deadline of February 17.

On May 11, 2008, the station was knocked off the air by storm damage; it has since returned to the air soon afterward.