WGWG
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Charleston, South Carolina United States |
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| City | Charleston, South Carolina |
| Branding | WGWG-TV |
| Channels |
Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
| Subchannels | 4.1 H&I 4.2 Decades |
| Affiliations | H&I (2015–present) |
| Owner |
Howard Stirk Holdings (HSH Charleston (WCIV) Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | October 23, 1962 |
| Call letters' meaning |
W Graham Williams Group (consulting firm co-owned by HSH owner Armstrong Williams) |
| Former callsigns | WCIV (1962–2014) WMMP (2014–2015) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 4 (VHF, 1962–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT1: NBC (1962–1996) ABC (1996–2014) ZUUS Country (2014–2015) DT2: MeTV (2011–2014) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 583.3 m |
| Facility ID | 21536 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°56′24″N 79°41′45″W / 32.94000°N 79.69583°W |
| Website | hsh |
WGWG is a television station in the Lowcountry area of South Carolina licensed to Charleston. It broadcasts a high-definition television digital signal on UHF channel 34 from a transmitter in Awendaw. It is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings and is affiliated with the Heroes & Icons network.
From 1962 through 2014, what is now WGWG was the original home of WCIV, and had been Charleston's ABC affiliate since 1996; however, in August 2014, WCIV owner Allbritton Communications was acquired by Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of MyNetworkTV affiliate WMMP (channel 36) and operator of Fox affiliate WTAT-TV (channel 24). Due to ownership conflicts with WMMP and WTAT, and a recent crackdown on joint sales agreements by the FCC, Sinclair elected to sell the WCIV channel 4 license to Howard Stirk Holdings, and moved WCIV's ABC programming and news operation to a subchannel of WMMP's channel 36 signal. At the same time, the two stations also switched call signs, with WCIV moving to channel 36 and channel 4 becoming the new WMMP, though the MyNetworkTV affiliation remains on channel 36.1 and did not move to channel 4.
The FCC approved HSH Charleston's purchase of channel 4 on December 4, 2014; the call letters became WGWG on March 11, 2015. Howard Stirk Holdings operates WGWG independently of WCIV and WTAT, and has not entered into a local marketing agreement with Sinclair.
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