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WRDW-TV commenced operations in February 1954; it is the second-oldest television station in Augusta. [3] The station was originally owned by Radio Augusta, the parent company of the original WRDW radio (1480 AM, later WCHZ and now defunct). [4]
WRDW (AM), a former radio station (1630 AM) licensed to serve Augusta, which held the WRDW call sign from 2003 until its deletion in 2020; WRDW-TV, a television station (channel 12) licensed to serve Augusta; WAGT-CD, a low-power television station (channel 16) licensed to serve Augusta, which held the call sign WRDW-CD from 2015 to 2016
WAGT-CD (channel 26) is a low-power, Class A television station in Augusta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC.It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WGAT-LD (channel 17) and dual CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate WRDW-TV (channel 12).
"United States TV Stations: Georgia", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive; Patrick Novotny (2007). "Impact of Television on Georgia, 1948-1952". Georgia Historical Quarterly. 91.
The station began operations December 24, 1968, as WATU-TV, the third television station in Augusta. Dr. Harold W. Twisdale, a dentist from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C.–based engineer David L. Steel were the leaders of the original ownership group, operating as Augusta Telecasters Inc. [2] [3] The Twisdale/Steel group, which had interests in other planned stations (WCTU-TV ...
WJBF-TV was a primary NBC affiliate, but picked up programs from CBS, ABC and DuMont on a secondary basis. Sister station WJBF radio was sold by Fuqua in 1954 (it is now WEZO). [4] It lost CBS only three months later when WRDW-TV (channel 12) signed on. On September 1, 1967, WJBF became a primary ABC affiliate. [5]
WFXG (channel 54) is a television station in Augusta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the Fox network and owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group.The station's studios are located on Washington Road/GA 104 in the Lamkin section of Martinez (with an Augusta mailing address), and its transmitter is located in Beech Island, South Carolina's Spiderweb section.
WRDW originated as the expanded band "twin" to the original WRDW. On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with the then-WRDW (later WCHZ) in Augusta authorized to move from 1480 to 1630 kHz. [1]