WMUM-TV digital channel 7 (Ex-Analog Channel 29, Originally on Channel 15), part of the GPB

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....

 network is the tenth and last Public Broadcasting Service

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 (PBS) member Public television station established in the state of Georgia. WMUM serves the geographical center of the state of Georgia, including the city of Macon

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...

 from its transmitter in Cochran

Cochran, Georgia

Cochran is a city in Bleckley County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 5,150. The city is the county seat of Bleckley County.- History :...

, its city of license

City of license

A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....

. The station's signal travels in about a 40-mile (65 km) radius from the transmitter site.

WMUM began broadcasting digitally

Digital television in the United States

In the United States, digital television broadcasts, or DTV, can be received via cable, via internet, via satellite, or via free over-the-air digital terrestrial television - much like analog television broadcasts have been. Full-power analog television broadcasts, however, were required by U.S....

 on channel 7 in April 2008, and ceased analog the following February 17 along with the rest of GPB TV.

History

WMUM-TV signed on January 1, 1968 on channel 15 as WDCO-TV. In 1990, the station changed its UHF frequency from channel 15 to channel 29, the only time a GPB station has swapped channels. In the summer of 2006, the station changed its call sign to WMUM-TV, named after Mercer University

Mercer University

Mercer University is an independent, private, coeducational university with a Baptist heritage located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Mercer is the only university of its size in the United States that offers programs in eleven diversified fields of study: liberal arts, business, education, music,...

 in Macon. The name change reflects Mercer's involvement in GPB's operations in the Macon market, especially in the field of radio (see WMUM-FM

WMUM-FM

WMUM-FM is the Georgia Public Broadcasting Public radio station serving Macon and central Georgia. The station shares a tower with its sister GPB Public Broadcasting Service member television station, WMUM-TV, in Cochran, its city of license.The station is a partnership, established in 2006,...

).

External links

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