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WSWG
Valdosta / Albany, Georgia
Branding	Southwest Georgia's CBS
Channels	44 (UHF) analog, 43 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS MyNetworkTV (43.2)
Owner	Gray Television
Founded	December 24, 1980
Call letters meaning	W SouthWest Georgia
Former callsigns	WVGA (1980-1992) WGVP (1995-2001) WVAG (2001-2005)
Former affiliations	ABC (1980-1992) silent (1992-1995) The WB (1995-2001) UPN (2001-2006)
Website	www.wswg.tv/

WSWG is the CBS affiliate for Albany, Georgia. The station is licensed to Valdosta, with studios in Moultrie. The station is owned by Gray Television. It largely serves as a semi-satellite for Tallahassee, Florida's CBS affiliate, WCTV.

WSWG transmits from facilities in Cook County near Adel, about 25 miles north of Valdosta.

Contents 1 History 2 Logos 3 See also 4 External links

WSWG signed on December 24, 1980 as WVGA, an ABC affiliate, covering an area where ABC signals from Tallahassee, Jacksonville and Gainesville are weak or non-existent. At the time, ABC was the top network in America. Founded by Hi Ho Broadcasting (which also owned WDHN in Dothan, Alabama), WVGA carried a typical slate of ABC and syndicated shows.

In 1986, Hi Ho sold their stations to Morris Network, a broadcasting company owned by the Morris Newspaper Corporation.

Unfortunately, by the late-1980s, WVGA was in financial trouble. It shut down its news department, relied more on bartered and brokered programming and infomercials, and started to sign off earlier, at 12 Midnight, following Nightline. The station's owners originally planned on selling the station to the owners of Tallahassee's WTXL-TV, which would have made WVGA a semi-satellite. However, that deal fell through.

WVGA's fate was sealed in January 1992, when a plane crashed into WVGA's transmission tower. Not having enough funds to rebuild the tower, Morris opted to close down WVGA instead.

In 1994, Morris sold the channel 44 license to Hutchens Communications, who reopened the station in 1995 as a WB affiliate, WGVP. In 2001, after losing The WB (when they insisted on putting all small-market affiliates on cable only), WGVP affiliated with UPN, and renamed itself WVAG. The station moved its studio to Moultrie, where it remains today.

Hutchens sold WVAG to Padon Communications in 2004, who in turn, sold it to Gray soon afterward. Under Gray, the station was re-called WSWG, and gave the control of the station to WCTV.

In January 2006, it was announced that The WB and UPN will close down and merge to form The CW Television Network, which is seen on former WB affiliate WFXU. On September 4, WSWG joined CBS and started a DT2 subchannel that serves as an affiliate for MyNetworkTV. Prior to the announcement of UPN's closure, the original plans were to make CBS a digital channel, with UPN staying on analog.

WSWG is now a semi-satellite of WCTV, repeating all of WCTV's programming except for commercials. WCTV had been the default CBS affiliate for Albany for many years. The two stations have a strong combined signal with just under 50% overlap.

Logo to be used on WSWG's MyNetwork TV digital station.

• WCTV

• Southwestern Georgia's CBS
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WSWG