WCES-TV

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WCES-TV

Wrens / Augusta, Georgia
Branding	GPB
Slogan	"Bringing you the best"
Channels	20 (UHF) analog, 2 (VHF) digital
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Georgia Public Broadcasting
Founded	September 12, 1966
Call letters meaning	W Central-East Georgia and South Carolina
Former affiliations	NET (1966-1970)
Transmitter Power	4970 kW (analog) 30 kW (digital)
Website	www.gpb.org

WCES-TV channel 20 (DTV 2) is a part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting network, and was Georgia's sixth non-commercial educational TV station. It serves Augusta, Georgia and the surrounding east-central Georgia and west-central South Carolina area, along the Savannah River valley (also known locally as the "Georgia-Lina" region).

The transmitter and radio antenna are located southwest of Augusta in Wrens, Georgia, its city of license, From there, its signal travels in roughly a 50-mile (80km) radius from the transmitter site, though a directional antenna (possibly a three-panel antenna) gives the station a somewhat triangularly-lobed radiation pattern.^[1]

The station chose to keep its digital on channel 2 in the first-round digital channel election, but has requested (but not yet been granted) channel 6 in the third round. This is because the low VHF (band I) has a lot of RF noise, which is worst on the lowest channels.

The radio tower is a 446.7-meter-high guyed mast, located at 33°15'34"N and 82°17'8"W. It was built in 1966.^[2]

[edit] Translators

Both translators are located near the state's border with South Carolina, in areas where coverage from a full-powered GPB transmitter is insufficient, due to the distance from the main transmitters and the hilly terrain in northeast Georgia.

W22AC Hartwell/Royston, applied for digital on 11
W60AE Elberton, applied for digital on 10

[edit] History

WCES-TV began on September 12, 1966. Its digital signal on channel 2 started in 2003.

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Broadcast television in the Augusta, Georgia market (Nielsen DMA #115)
WJBF 6 (ABC) - WRDW 12 (CBS) (MNTV on DT2) - WBEK 16 (A1) - WEBA 14 (PBS/SCETV) - WCES 20 (PBS/GPB) - WAGT 26 (NBC) (The CW on DT2) - WFXG 54 (FOX) (The Tube on DT2)

PBS Member Stations in the state of Georgia
GPB: WGTV 8 (Atlanta) - WXGA 8 (Waycross/Valdosta) - WVAN 9 (Savannah) - WABW 14 (Albany) - WCLP 18 (Dalton) - WCES 20 (Augusta) - WACS 25 (Dawson/Americus) - WJSP 28 (Columbus) - WMUM 29 (Macon) Other: WPBA 30 (Atlanta)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, and Other stations in Georgia