WLGA

WLGA
Opelika, Alabama/Columbus, Georgia
United States
City Opelika, Alabama
Branding WLGA
Slogan We're your station!
Channels Digital: 30 (UHF)
(to move to 17 (UHF))
Virtual: 66 (PSIP)
Subchannels 66.1 Cozi TV
66.2 HSN
66.3 This TV
66.4 QVC
66.5 QVC2
Owner CNZ Communications, LLC
(CNZ Communications SE, LLC)
First air date May 16, 1982 (1982-05-16)
Call letters' meaning We
Love
Georgia and
Alabama
Former callsigns WSWS-TV (1982–2005)
Former channel number(s) 66 (UHF analog, 1982–2009)
47 (UHF digital, 2009–2013)
Former affiliations Independent (1982–1984, 2009–2010)
CTN (1984–1995)
UPN (1995–2006)
The CW (2006–2009)
WeatherNation (2012–2013)
Antenna TV (2013–2017)
Infomercials (2017)
FNN (secondary, 1981–1985)
The WB (secondary, mid/late 1990s)
Pax TV (secondary, late 1990s)
Transmitter power 500 kW
372 kW (CP)
Height 536 m (1,759 ft)
Facility ID 11113
Transmitter coordinates 32°19′15.9″N 84°47′28.5″W / 32.321083°N 84.791250°W / 32.321083; -84.791250
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.wlgatv.com

WLGA is a Cozi TV-affiliated television station licensed to Opelika, Alabama, United States and serving the Chattahoochee Valley of west-central Georgia and east-central Alabama. It broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 30 (or virtual channel 66 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Cusseta, Georgia. Owned by CNZ Communications, the station maintains studios on 13th Avenue in Columbus, Georgia.

History

The station signed on for the first time on May 16, 1982 as WSWS-TV, the Columbus area's first independent station. At the outset, WSWS carried cartoons, religious shows, low budget movies, and programming from the Financial News Network. It was initially owned by Warden Broadcasting, but was acquired by the Christian Television Network (CTN) in 1984. The FNN programs were dropped by 1987, but the station did retain much of its other secular programming, in addition to CTN's programming.

WLGA logo used on its website immediately after ending its CW affiliation. Versions of this logo with the UPN logo was used as a UPN affiliate, as both WSWS and WLGA.

RCH Broadcasting bought WSWS in 1995, and affiliated the station with the upstart United Paramount Network (UPN). It also aired programs from The WB and, later, Pax TV (now Ion Television) on a secondary basis during the mid-to-late 1990s. Pappas Telecasting bought the station outright in 1996 and upgraded programming somewhat. Much of the station's programming through the years of its affiliation with UPN and The CW Plus have been situation comedy and dramatic syndicated reruns of older series and courtroom shows such as Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown with their 10th anniversary marathon of their respective years of 2006 and 2008. Among those shows, they include The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Cosby Show, Saved by the Bell, The Doris Day Show and My Three Sons. They also aired uncut reruns of the CBS show Evening Shade from 1995–2010 and currently with its normal airing thing on Antenna TV which is the affiliation for WLGA.

The station changed its call letters to WLGA on June 27, 2005. The "WSWS" calls were moved to sister station WSWS-CA, the ABC affiliate in North Platte, Nebraska; they remained there until June 12, 2009, when it became KHGI-CA to reflect its parent station, KHGI-TV.

In September 2006, WLGA joined The CW as an affiliate when UPN merged with The WB. On April 2, 2009, it was announced that The CW would discontinue its relationship with WLGA, instead choosing to broadcast on a digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WLTZ, effective April 27. Although no reason was given, it was likely related to Pappas filing for bankruptcy a year earlier.[1] WLGA became an independent station once again, and completely overhauled its schedule (most of the station's programming outside of network hours during its CW affiliation was provided by The CW Plus, which also moved to the WLTZ subchannel).

In early June 2010, WLGA announced that it would cease operations at 11:59 p.m. on June 4. However, during its silent period, WLGA's license remained active, with a construction permit to broadcast on channel 30 and an application to broadcast on channel 47.

As of August 2012, WLGA returned to the air on channel 47, broadcasting WeatherNation on 66.1. On June 24, 2013, the station was licensed to broadcast on channel 30. In 2013, WeatherNation was replaced with Antenna TV. In 2017, Antenna TV was moved to WLTZ 38.3 and began carrying infomercials on 66.1, and then after a few months, the station began airing Cozi TV on 66.1 and added four new subchannels.

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