WGSA

WGSA is the CW-affiliated television station for Georgia's Coastal Empire and South Carolina's Lowcountry that is licensed to Baxley, Georgia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 35 (or virtual channel 35.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Fort Argyle Road/SR 204 in western unincorporated Chatham County, Georgia. Locally-owned by the Southern TV Corporation, the station has studios on Mall Boulevard in Savannah's Skyland Terrace section. Syndicated programming on WGSA includes Access Hollywood, The Insider, 30 Rock, and Everybody Loves Raymond among others.

History

The station signed-on as WUBI on May 1, 1992 and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 35. It was an Independent at first but joined The WB in 1995 and became known as "WB 34". From 1997 until 1998, The WB's programming was only seen on cable and satellite providers in the Baxley and Savannah areas via the Chicago-based national superstation WGN. From 1998 onwards, WGN was displaced on those providers and was replaced with a cable-only WB-affiliated station using the fictional call letters "WBVH" (known on air as "WB 15") as a member of The WB 100+ Station Group. The station later joined UPN in early-1997 as "UPN 13" (using the station's cable channel for branding) after ABC affiliate WJCL originally carried UPN as a secondary affiliate.