WXGA-TV

WXGA-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is a PBS member television station serving Valdosta, Georgia, United States that is licensed to Waycross. The station is owned by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, and is a sister station to NPR member radio station WXVS (90.1 FM). WXGA-TV maintains transmitter facilities located on TV Tower Road in unincorporated Ware County. The station is operated as part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting television network.

History

The station first signed on the air on November 19, 1961; it was the third educational television station to sign on in the state of Georgia (after WETV [now WPBA-TV] in Atlanta and sister station WGTV in Athens). It was the first in a group of three educational stations that were founded by the Georgia State Board of Education in the early 1960s, along with WVAN-TV in Savannah and WJSP-TV in Columbus. In 1965, the University of Georgia and the board merged their efforts as Georgia Educational Television, which evolved into the present GPB Television network.