WFPG-TV
| Atlantic City, New Jersey | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Analog: 46 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | silent |
| Owner | WFPG radio |
| First air date | December 21, 1952 |
| Last air date | May 17, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning |
World's Finest Play Ground |
| Former affiliations |
NBC (primary) CBS, ABC, DuMont (secondary) |
| Transmitter power | 1 kW TPO |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′43.6″N 74°50′39.6″W / 39.728778°N 74.844333°W |
WFPG-TV was one of the earliest UHF television stations in the United States, licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey. The station broadcast over channel 46 from December 1952 until May 1954, and held affiliations with all four major networks of the era: NBC, CBS, ABC and DuMont.
Geographically, New Jersey is sandwiched between New York City and Philadelphia. Between them, the two large cities were granted most of the available VHF channels. The only VHF station assigned to New Jersey was located in Newark, the state's largest city. However, channel 13—WATV, later to become WNTA-TV (and now WNET) -- was programmed as a New York City station. New York City was directly awarded channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11; while Philadelphia was assigned channels 3, 6 and 10. Channel 8 became unavailable as it was given to Lancaster, Pennsylvania's WGAL-TV, and later to WNHC-TV (now WTNH) in New Haven, Connecticut. Around the same time, WDEL-TV in Wilmington, Delaware (later WVUE) moved to channel 12, which the FCC reassigned to Wilmington to replace channel 7.
Prior to the opening of the UHF band in 1952, Atlantic City viewers could receive some of the Philadelphia stations. However, they could only be received with very large rooftop antennas, and signals were marginal even under the best conditions.
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