WABW-TV
WABW-TV, virtual channel 14, is a Public Broadcasting Service member television station serving Albany, Georgia, United States that is licensed to Pelham. Owned by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, it is a sister station to National Public Radio member WUNV. WABW-TV's transmitter is located in Pelham. The station is operated as part of the statewide Georgia Public Broadcasting television network.
WABW-TV's signal travels in about a radius from the transmitter site, carrying it into the Tallahassee, Florida area. It provides city-grade coverage of most of the Georgia side of the Tallahassee market, including Thomasville. It has long been carried on cable in Tallahassee, giving residents of the Big Bend region a second option for PBS programming alongside WFSU-TV.
The broadcast tower was shared by W232AB in Camilla, which relayed GPB Radio from WABR in Tifton until its license was canceled on August 27, 2015.
Albany is served by two GPB TV channels, with WACS-TV in Americus as the other, but WABW is Albany's GPB station of record.History
WABW-TV signed-on on January 2, 1967, as part of the Georgia Educational Television Network. It was the seventh educational television station in Georgia.Digital television
Analog-to-digital conversion
On February 17, 2009, WABW-TV shut down its analog signal in accordance with the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated on its pre-transition VHF channel 5 to channel 6. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.
