Everything about Wuvg-tv totally explained
WUVG-TV is a
television station in the greater
Atlanta area, on
analog TV channel 34, and
DTV channel 48. The all-
Spanish station is the
owned and operated television station of
Univisión. The only other Spanish-language channel in the area is
WUVM-LP, an
LPTV station which carries
Azteca America on analog channel 4 only.
History
The station went on air on
April 18,
1989 as
WNGM-TV with the
callsign standing for
North Georgia Mountains. Initially the station ran a general entertainment format with
cartoons, classic and recent
sitcoms,Country music blocks of programming, old
movies and
syndicated first-run shows.
The station's transmitter was located 60 miles (nearly 100km) away from Atlanta, reaching
Athens with a grade A signal while sending a very weak signal into eastern
metro Atlanta. As a result, many syndicators sold the rights for shows that were already on the Atlanta stations to WNGM. The station provided an alternative to viewers in areas which had moderate
VHF reception and poor
UHF reception from Atlanta. However, the station floundered in the ratings. By late 1988, the station was running a blend of
infomercials, low-rated syndicated shows and movies, and
shop-at-home programming.
In 1989, after the
Home Shopping Network failed to buy WVEU (now
WUPA 69), it arranged for Whitehead Media to buy WNGM. The station started to air HSN's programming 24 hours a day.
In 1993, it moved its
transmitter closer to Atlanta, covering the city with a grade A
signal strength. This was the same tower as WFOX/97.1 and Y-106(channel 34 was actually planned for this tower went it went up in 1984!)
In 1996, it switched to an all
music videos format as an affiliate of
The Box.
Image:whot.jpg|WHOT-TV "Hotlanta 34" Logo
Image:Usab.jpg|USA Broadcasting Logo
The station was bought by
USA Broadcasting (which was under the same ownership as HSN, under Barry Diller) in 1997. It became
WHOT-TV in October 1999 (for
Hotlanta, one of the city's
nicknames) and added syndicated cartoons, off-network sitcoms, dramas, old movies and syndicated talk/reality shows to its lineup, along with
Fox Kids which it picked up from
WATL TV 36. (Currently, the successor to Fox Kids,
4Kids TV, doesn't air at all in the Atlanta area.) The station didn't receive spectacular ratings, but was still performing decently.
In 2000, WHOT obtained the rights to the
Atlanta Hawks basketball games.
USA then planned to sell its stations to
ABC-
Disney, but
Univision outbid its competition in a close race. In markets which already had Univision affiliates, the newly acquired stations became affiliates of
Telefutura, a new network started by Univision. However, WHOT was Univision's only station in Atlanta (which had a relatively low, but growing, Spanish-speaking population). As such, the station changed its call sign to
WUVG (for
Uni
vision
Georgia) in November 2001 and became Atlanta's Univision affiliate on
January 14,
2002.
Digital Television (Over the Air)
The station's over the air digital channel is multiplexed:
In
2009, WUVG-TV will leave channel 34 and move to channel 48 when the analog to digital conversion is complete.
Despite still being
licensed to
Athens, Georgia, the station's digital TV
transmitter and
antenna is located within the city of
Atlanta. This is also very unusual because the
FCC normally requires analog and digital coverage to be nearly identical, which this station won't have.
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