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| branding = Univision 34 ''(general)''<br/>''Noticias 34 Atlanta'' ''(newscasts)''
| branding = Univision 34 Atlanta ''(general)''<br/>''Noticias 34 Atlanta'' ''(newscasts)''
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| digital = 18 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])
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| translators = ''35 (UHF) Athens''
| translators = ''35 (UHF) Athens''
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''34.1:''' [[Univision]] ('''[[owned-and-operated station|O&O]]''')|'''34.2:''' [[UniMás]]|'''34.3:''' [[GetTV]]|'''34.4:''' [[Court TV Mystery]]<ref name=rei>{{cite web|title=Digital TV Market Listing for WUVG-DT|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WUVG-DT#station|website=RabbitEars.Info|access-date=January 26, 2017}}</ref>}}
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| airdate = {{start date and age|1989|4|18|p=y}}
| airdate = {{start date and age|1989|4|18|p=y}}
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| erp = 1,000 [[kilowatt|kW]]
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| class = [[Digital terrestrial television|DT]]
| facility_id = 48813
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WNGM-TV was owned by a company including the final two applicants for the channel: Georgia Mountain Corporation and Sunbelt Television, Inc., which merged their bids in 1985 and won the construction permit.<ref name="hometown">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85037995/hometown-tv-coming-to-athens/|pages=1D, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85038010/athens-wngm/ 9D]|date=February 14, 1989|work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|title=Hometown TV coming to Athens|first=Steve|last=Goldberg|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref> Its transmitter was located {{convert|60|mi|km|0}} 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 [[very high frequency|VHF]] reception and poor UHF reception from Atlanta; [[Clarke County, Georgia|Clarke County]] had a cable penetration rate of 83 percent, 30 points above the national average.{{r|hometown}}
WNGM-TV was owned by a company including the final two applicants for the channel: Georgia Mountain Corporation and Sunbelt Television, Inc., which merged their bids in 1985 and won the construction permit.<ref name="hometown">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85037995/hometown-tv-coming-to-athens/|pages=1D, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85038010/athens-wngm/ 9D]|date=February 14, 1989|work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|title=Hometown TV coming to Athens|first=Steve|last=Goldberg|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref> Its transmitter was located {{convert|60|mi|km|0}} 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 [[very high frequency|VHF]] reception and poor UHF reception from Atlanta; [[Clarke County, Georgia|Clarke County]] had a cable penetration rate of 83 percent, 30 points above the national average.{{r|hometown}}


NGM Television Partners, the licensee, sold the station for $10 million in 1996 to Whitehead Media, which the next year formalized a time brokerage agreement under which [[Ion Media|Paxson Communications Corporation]] began operating channel 34.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85454846/paxson-to-buy-tv-station-in-n-carolina/|work=Miami Herald|title=Paxson to buy TV station in N. Carolina|date=May 1, 1996|page=7B}}</ref> However, Paxson opted the next year to divest itself of extra stations in markets where it controlled more than one, such as Atlanta, where it owned [[WPXA-TV]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Paxson selling 2 stations|first=Julie|last=Waresh|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85454944/paxson-selling-2-stations/|date=April 3, 1997|page=1D, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85454994/company-has-deal-to-buy-detroit-station/ 7D]|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref> However, the $73.5 million sale by Paxson of the operating rights and by Whitehead of the licenses for WNGM-TV and [[WRLM (TV)|WOAC]] in [[Canton, Ohio]], to Global Broadcasting Systems, Inc.,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85455094/paxson-sales-bring-150-million/|accessdate=September 16, 2021|date=April 4, 1997|work=Palm Beach Post|title=Paxson sales bring $150 million|page=1D}}</ref> was terminated a month later when the buyer failed to post an escrow deposit.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85455201/paxson-terminates-pact-with-global/|date=May 17, 1997|page=1C|title=Paxson terminates pact with Global|accessdate=September 16, 2021|work=Miami Herald}}</ref>
NGM Television Partners, the licensee, sold the station for $10 million in 1996 to Whitehead Media, which the next year formalized a time brokerage agreement under which [[Ion Media|Paxson Communications Corporation]] began operating channel 34.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85454846/paxson-to-buy-tv-station-in-n-carolina/|work=Miami Herald|title=Paxson to buy TV station in N. Carolina|date=May 1, 1996|page=7B}}</ref> However, Paxson opted the next year to divest itself of extra stations in markets where it controlled more than one, such as Atlanta, where it owned [[WPXA-TV]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Julie|last=Waresh|title=Paxson selling 2 stations|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85454944/paxson-selling-2-stations/|date=April 3, 1997|page=1D, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85454994/company-has-deal-to-buy-detroit-station/ 7D]|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref> However, the $73.5 million sale by Paxson of the operating rights and by Whitehead of the licenses for WNGM-TV and [[WRLM (TV)|WOAC]] in [[Canton, Ohio]], to Global Broadcasting Systems, Inc.,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85455094/paxson-sales-bring-150-million/|accessdate=September 16, 2021|date=April 4, 1997|work=Palm Beach Post|title=Paxson sales bring $150 million|page=1D}}</ref> was terminated a month later when the buyer failed to post an escrow deposit.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85455201/paxson-terminates-pact-with-global/|date=May 17, 1997|page=1C|title=Paxson terminates pact with Global|accessdate=September 16, 2021|work=Miami Herald}}</ref>

From 1996 until September 1, 1997, WNGM-TV aired Paxson's Infomall TV [[infomercial]] network, then switching to separate but similar home shopping programming, which was an issue at play in a major cable carriage dispute with [[MediaOne]] over whether it had to be placed on a series of major Atlanta cable systems.<ref name="da">{{cite web|title=Memorandum Opinion & Order (DA 98-1654)|date=August 18, 1998|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGX381F6ayIC&pg=PA15608&lpg=PA15608|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref>


==="Hotlanta 34"===
==="Hotlanta 34"===
In 1998, [[USA Broadcasting]] acquired WNGM for $50 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85455290/paxson-planning-to-buy-oregon-tv-station/|accessdate=September 16, 2021|title=Paxson planning to buy Oregon TV station|page=2D|title=Paxson planning to buy Oregon TV station|work=Palm Beach Post|date=March 13, 1998}}</ref> It was part of a larger deal between Paxson and USA that allowed Paxson-owned stations in [[New Orleans]] and [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] to make early exits from affiliation contracts with the [[HSN|Home Shopping Network]], gave Paxson a station serving [[Portland, Oregon]], and put USA Broadcasting in every top 10 market but [[Detroit]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1998/biz/news/paxson-diller-shop-swap-tv-outlets-1117468715/|first=Andrew|last=Paxman|title=Paxson, Diller shop & swap TV outlets|date=March 12, 1998|work=Variety|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref>
In 1998, [[USA Broadcasting]] acquired WNGM for $50 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85455290/paxson-planning-to-buy-oregon-tv-station/|accessdate=September 16, 2021|title=Paxson planning to buy Oregon TV station|page=2D|title=Paxson planning to buy Oregon TV station|work=Palm Beach Post|date=March 13, 1998}}</ref> It was part of a larger deal between Paxson and USA that allowed Paxson-owned stations in [[New Orleans]] and [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] to make early exits from affiliation contracts with the [[HSN|Home Shopping Network]], gave Paxson a station serving [[Portland, Oregon]], and put USA Broadcasting in every top 10 market but [[Detroit]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1998/biz/news/paxson-diller-shop-swap-tv-outlets-1117468715/|first=Andrew|last=Paxman|title=Paxson, Diller shop & swap TV outlets|date=March 12, 1998|work=Variety|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref> After the USA acquisition, the home shopping programming was dropped and replaced with music videos from [[The Box (American TV channel)|The Box]]—which led the FCC to greenlight the station's push for must-carry in the Atlanta area that August.{{r|da}}


In November 1999, WNGM was the third of four USAB stations after [[Miami]]'s [[WAMI-DT|WAMI-TV]] to convert to USAB's new "CityVision" general entertainment format and became "Hotlanta 34" under new WHOT-TV call letters. The centerpiece of the plan was a three-year contract for the rights to telecast [[Atlanta Hawks]] basketball.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/diller-will-hawk-whot-in-atlanta-1117755730/|work=Variety|title=Diller will Hawk WHOT in Atlanta|first=Cynthia|last=Littleton|date=September 16, 1999|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref> The move was made after [[WATL]] (channel 36) opted not to renew its deal because of the expanding program offerings of [[The WB]].<ref>{{cite news|title=WHOT to carry Hawks|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85038092/whot-to-carry-hawks/|date=September 16, 1999|work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|first=Prentis|last=Rogers|page=G6|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref> However, after the format failed to take off where it was introduced and the company registered operating losses of $62 million in 2000, Diller opted to sell the stations to [[Univision]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite news|pages=18–19|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-2000/BC-2000-12-11.pdf|work=Broadcasting & Cable|date=December 11, 2000|first=Steve|last=McClellan|title=Univision speaks Barry's lingo: $1.1B|accessdate=September 7, 2021}}</ref>
In 1993, it moved closer to Atlanta via sharing the same [[radio masts and towers|radio tower]] as [[WSRV|WFOX]] (97.1 FM) and [[WAKL (FM)|WYAY]] (106.7 FM), one that Channel 34 was originally slated for. Two years later in 1996, WNGM switched to airing [[music video]]s as an affiliate of [[The Box (American TV channel)|The Box]] Network. In 1997, HSN owner Silver King Broadcasting bought the station from Whitehead and one year later Silver King became [[USA Broadcasting]] after merging with the TV assets of [[Universal Pictures]].


===Univision Georgia===
In October 1999, WNGM was the second of four USAB stations after [[Miami]]'s [[WAMI-DT|WAMI-TV]] to convert to USAB's new "CityVision" general entertainment format and became "Hotlanta 34" under new '''WHOT-TV''' call letters. This marked channel 34's return to independent status after six years and gave Atlanta a second pure independent station. The other was [[WarnerMedia|Time Warner]]'s [[WPCH-TV|WTBS]], at the time still doubling as a national [[superstation]], while [[WUPA]] and [[WATL]] were still semi-independent as both [[UPN]] and [[The WB]] offered a limited network schedule. Under the "CityVision" format, the station aired syndicated cartoons, off-network sitcoms and dramas, movies and syndicated [[talk show|talk]] and [[reality television|reality shows]]. It also picked up the [[Fox Kids]] block from WATL (as that station fully committed to [[Kids' WB]]) and obtained the rights to [[Atlanta Hawks]] [[basketball]] games for at least the [[2000–01 Atlanta Hawks season|2000–01 season]]. While ratings were not spectacular during this period, they still were relatively decent especially compared to its time as an HSN and Box affiliate.
While some of the stations were used to start [[UniMás|Telefutura]], a second network, the purchase gave Univision its first ever broadcast outlet in Atlanta, where the Latino population had grown by 362 percent during the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Atlanta TV station to switch to all-Spanish|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85038615/atlanta-tv-station-to-switch-to/|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85038646/spanish/ A19]|first=John|last=Druckenmiller|work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=May 17, 2001|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref> Under new WUVG call letters, channel 34 changed to Spanish-language programming on January 14, 2002.<ref name="yolanda">{{cite news|pages=B1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85457500/spanish-language-tv-now-live-on-metro-ar/ B5]<!--No scan of B1 in newspapers.com-->|first=Yolanda|last=Rodriguez|title=International Atlanta: Spanish TV station is now live on metro dial|work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution}}</ref> While local news was not immediately added, WUVG began producing a public affairs program in Spanish, ''Nuestra Georgia'' (Our Georgia), the first such program on Atlanta television since 1997.{{r|yolanda}}

USAB had planned to continue expansion of the "CityVision" format to its other stations over time, and did expand to one additional market in [[WUTF-TV|Boston]] in August 2000. However, due to financial problems at USAB, plans were eventually scrapped and the entire group of USAB stations went up for sale with programming slimmed down in the interim. Both [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]]/[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[Univision]] were in the running, with Disney looking to partner WHOT with [[Cox Enterprises|Cox]]-owned ABC affiliate [[WSB-TV]], but in the end Univision outbid Disney in a close race. While Univision turned most of USA Broadcasting's stations into the nucleus of its new Telefutura network (which rebranded as [[UniMás]] in 2013), Atlanta was one of three USAB markets that did not have an existing Univision full-powered affiliate despite Atlanta having a small but growing Spanish-speaking population. As such, the station became '''WUVG''' (Univision Georgia) in November 2001 before becoming Atlanta's Univision affiliate on January 14, 2002.


==News operation==
==News operation==
WUVG launched its news department in April 2011, with twice daily half-hour evening newscasts at 6:00 and 11:00&nbsp;p.m.—branded as ''Noticias 34 Atlanta'' (''News 34 Atlanta'')—anchored by Amanda Ramirez (now at [[WLII-DT]]) and Gianncarlo Cifuentes. The station also airs ''Nuestra Georgia'' (''Our Georgia''), hosted by Mariela Romero, on Sundays at 6:00&nbsp;p.m. WUVG has received multiple [[Emmy Award|Emmy awards]] from the Southeast Regional Chapter of the [[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences]] in recognition of excellence in television. The station also maintains a content partnership with the local Spanish language newspaper ''MundoHispanico''.
WUVG launched its news department in April 2011, with two daily half-hour evening newscasts at 6:00 and 11:00&nbsp;p.m.—branded as ''Noticias 34 Atlanta'' (''News 34 Atlanta'')—anchored by Amanda Ramirez (now at [[WLII-DT]]) and Gianncarlo Cifuentes.<ref>{{cite news|first=Alberto|last=Brown Rodríguez|title=Univision 34 Atlanta lanza noticiero diario|trans-title=Univision 34 Atlanta launches daily newscast|work=MundoHispánico|date=April 14, 2011|page=A30|via=ProQuest|id={{ProQuest|865391146}} }}</ref> The station also maintains a partnership with [[WGCL-TV]] for news coverage.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/wgcl-wuvg-form-news-sharing-partnership/|work=TVNewsCheck|date=August 31, 2017|first=Mark K.|last=Miller|title=WGCL, WUVG Form News Sharing Partnership|accessdate=September 16, 2021}}</ref>

The station's other local program is a weekend newsmagazine, ''Conexión Fin de Semana''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/traffic-at-the-top-in-atlanta-ratings-race|accessdate=September 16, 2021|date=December 9, 2019|title=Traffic at the Top in Atlanta Ratings Race|first=Michael|last=Malone|work=Broadcasting & Cable}}</ref>


==Technical information==
==Technical information==
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===Translator===
===Translator===
WUVG-DT maintains a digital replacement translator, which supplements channel 34's coverage in the city of license, Athens.

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WUVG-DT
CityAthens, Georgia
Channels
BrandingUnivision 34 Atlanta (general)
Noticias 34 Atlanta (newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
April 18, 1989 (35 years ago) (1989-04-18)
Former call signs
  • WNGM-TV (1989–1999)
  • WHOT-TV (1999–2001)
  • WUVG (2001–2003)
  • WUVG-TV (2004–2009)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 34 (UHF, 1989–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 48 (UHF, until 2019)
Call sign meaning
Univision Georgia
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID48813
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT328 m (1,076 ft)
Transmitter coordinates33°48′26.4″N 84°20′21.5″W / 33.807333°N 84.339306°W / 33.807333; -84.339306
Translator(s)35 (UHF) Athens
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.univision.com/local/atlanta-wuvg

WUVG-DT, virtual channel 34 (UHF digital channel 18), is a dual Univision/UniMás owned-and-operated television station licensed to Athens, Georgia, United States and serving the Atlanta television market. The station is owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications. WUVG-DT's studios are located on Peachtree Road NE in the Buckhead section of Atlanta, and its transmitter is located in North Druid Hills. Despite Athens being WUVG-DT's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.

WUVG-DT offers a Spanish-language programming format featuring news, talk shows, dramas, movies and other first-rate Spanish programming. The station is also active in many community outreach efforts and events throughout the year including several signature hosted celebrations—the two largest being Cinco de Mayo (May 5) and Fiestas Patrias (National Holidays) in September.

On cable, WUVG-DT is available on Charter Spectrum channel 15 in both standard and high definition, and on Comcast Xfinity channels 14 (SD) and 814 (HD).

History

WNGM-TV

The station went on air on April 18, 1989, as WNGM-TV,[3] with the call sign standing for "North Georgia Mountains".[4] Initially the station ran a general entertainment format with cartoons, classic and recent sitcoms, blocks of country music programming, old movies and syndicated first-run shows; it also aired a local newscast and magazine program focusing on north Georgia.[3]

WNGM-TV was owned by a company including the final two applicants for the channel: Georgia Mountain Corporation and Sunbelt Television, Inc., which merged their bids in 1985 and won the construction permit.[4] Its transmitter was located 60 miles (97 km) 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; Clarke County had a cable penetration rate of 83 percent, 30 points above the national average.[4]

NGM Television Partners, the licensee, sold the station for $10 million in 1996 to Whitehead Media, which the next year formalized a time brokerage agreement under which Paxson Communications Corporation began operating channel 34.[5] However, Paxson opted the next year to divest itself of extra stations in markets where it controlled more than one, such as Atlanta, where it owned WPXA-TV.[6] However, the $73.5 million sale by Paxson of the operating rights and by Whitehead of the licenses for WNGM-TV and WOAC in Canton, Ohio, to Global Broadcasting Systems, Inc.,[7] was terminated a month later when the buyer failed to post an escrow deposit.[8]

From 1996 until September 1, 1997, WNGM-TV aired Paxson's Infomall TV infomercial network, then switching to separate but similar home shopping programming, which was an issue at play in a major cable carriage dispute with MediaOne over whether it had to be placed on a series of major Atlanta cable systems.[9]

"Hotlanta 34"

In 1998, USA Broadcasting acquired WNGM for $50 million.[10] It was part of a larger deal between Paxson and USA that allowed Paxson-owned stations in New Orleans and Memphis to make early exits from affiliation contracts with the Home Shopping Network, gave Paxson a station serving Portland, Oregon, and put USA Broadcasting in every top 10 market but Detroit.[11] After the USA acquisition, the home shopping programming was dropped and replaced with music videos from The Box—which led the FCC to greenlight the station's push for must-carry in the Atlanta area that August.[9]

In November 1999, WNGM was the third of four USAB stations after Miami's WAMI-TV to convert to USAB's new "CityVision" general entertainment format and became "Hotlanta 34" under new WHOT-TV call letters. The centerpiece of the plan was a three-year contract for the rights to telecast Atlanta Hawks basketball.[12] The move was made after WATL (channel 36) opted not to renew its deal because of the expanding program offerings of The WB.[13] However, after the format failed to take off where it was introduced and the company registered operating losses of $62 million in 2000, Diller opted to sell the stations to Univision in 2001.[14]

Univision Georgia

While some of the stations were used to start Telefutura, a second network, the purchase gave Univision its first ever broadcast outlet in Atlanta, where the Latino population had grown by 362 percent during the 1990s.[15] Under new WUVG call letters, channel 34 changed to Spanish-language programming on January 14, 2002.[16] While local news was not immediately added, WUVG began producing a public affairs program in Spanish, Nuestra Georgia (Our Georgia), the first such program on Atlanta television since 1997.[16]

News operation

WUVG launched its news department in April 2011, with two daily half-hour evening newscasts at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.—branded as Noticias 34 Atlanta (News 34 Atlanta)—anchored by Amanda Ramirez (now at WLII-DT) and Gianncarlo Cifuentes.[17] The station also maintains a partnership with WGCL-TV for news coverage.[18]

The station's other local program is a weekend newsmagazine, Conexión Fin de Semana.[19]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
34.1 1080i 16:9 WUVG-DT Main WUVG-DT programming / Univision
34.2 UniMás
34.3 480i 4:3 getTV GetTV
34.4 16:9 Mystery Court TV Mystery[20]

Translator

WUVG-DT maintains a digital replacement translator, which supplements channel 34's coverage in the city of license, Athens.

City of license Call sign Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates
Athens WUVG-DT (DRT) 35 13.5 kW 111.3 m (365 ft) 48813 33°59′35.9″N 83°24′55.9″W / 33.993306°N 83.415528°W / 33.993306; -83.415528 (WUVG-DT (DRT))

Analog-to-digital conversion

WUVG shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[21] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48, using PSIP to display WUVG's virtual channel as 34 on digital television receivers.

The station airs UniMás on their digital subchannel 34.2, which is a rarity as Univision prefers their two networks to operate on two different channels rather than in multiplexed form. However, this is a legacy of analog television, the major disadvantage of sharing now being that 34.2 does not have the right to must-carry since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) failed to implement it for digital TV stations, even for cable television systems that drop almost all analog channels to supposedly make more room for digital as Comcast has done locally.

As of August 2014, UniMás on 34.2 is being broadcast over the air in 1080i HD. On March 25, 2017, Escape was moved to WSB 2.2; at that point; 34.4 was removed, but moved back to 34.4 in late 2017.

References

  1. ^ a b "Digital TV Market Listing for WUVG-DT". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WUVG-DT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ a b Batts, Mollie (April 19, 1989). "Athens television hits the airwaves". The Red and Black. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Goldberg, Steve (February 14, 1989). "Hometown TV coming to Athens". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. pp. 1D, 9D. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  5. ^ "Paxson to buy TV station in N. Carolina". Miami Herald. May 1, 1996. p. 7B.
  6. ^ Waresh, Julie (April 3, 1997). "Paxson selling 2 stations". p. 1D, 7D. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  7. ^ "Paxson sales bring $150 million". Palm Beach Post. April 4, 1997. p. 1D. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  8. ^ "Paxson terminates pact with Global". Miami Herald. May 17, 1997. p. 1C. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  9. ^ a b "Memorandum Opinion & Order (DA 98-1654)". Federal Communications Commission. August 18, 1998. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  10. ^ "Paxson planning to buy Oregon TV station". Palm Beach Post. March 13, 1998. p. 2D. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  11. ^ Paxman, Andrew (March 12, 1998). "Paxson, Diller shop & swap TV outlets". Variety. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  12. ^ Littleton, Cynthia (September 16, 1999). "Diller will Hawk WHOT in Atlanta". Variety. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  13. ^ Rogers, Prentis (September 16, 1999). "WHOT to carry Hawks". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. G6. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  14. ^ McClellan, Steve (December 11, 2000). "Univision speaks Barry's lingo: $1.1B" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. pp. 18–19. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
  15. ^ Druckenmiller, John (May 17, 2001). "Atlanta TV station to switch to all-Spanish". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. pp. A1, A19. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
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