WMGT-TV
 
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Macon, Georgia United States |
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| Branding | 41 NBC (general) 41 NBC News My 41.2 (on DT2) |
| Slogan | Clear. Accurate. To the Point. |
| Channels |
Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 41 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | NBC |
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Morris Multimedia (Morris Network, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 30, 1968 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're Macon (or Middle) Georgia Television |
| Former callsigns | WCWB-TV (1968–1983) WMGT (1983–2003) |
| Former channel number(s) | 41 (UHF analog, 1968–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 110 kW |
| Height | 189 m |
| Facility ID | 43847 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°45′11.2″N 83°33′47.3″W / 32.753111°N 83.563139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WMGT-TV, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 40), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Macon, Georgia, United States. It serves as the flagship television station of owner Morris Multimedia. WMGT maintains studio facilities located on Poplar Street in Downtown Macon, and its transmitter is located on SR 87/U.S. 23/U.S. 129 Alternate (Golden Isles Highway) along the Bibb-Twiggs County line.
On July 6, 2009, the station began carrying MyNetworkTV on a new second digital subchannel. The programming service had previously been carried in the Macon market as a secondary affiliation on Fox affiliate WGXA beginning with MyNetworkTV's launch on September 5, 2006. In the summer of 2011, WMGT-DT2 was rebranded as "My41.2".
On July 2, 2015, Bounce TV was moved from WPGA-TV to WMGT-DT3, while ThisTV network took its place on WPGA-DT3 which was previously on WPGA-LP channel 50.
In mid-March 2016, WMGT-TV began carrying Escape on digital subchannel 41.4.
In mid-October 2016, WMGT-TV began carrying Laff on digital subchannel 41.5.
The station first signed on the air on September 30, 1968, as WCWB-TV. It was the first commercial television station to start up in the Macon market since CBS affiliate WMAZ-TV (channel 13) debuted on September 27, 1953, fifteen years and three days earlier. The station was founded by Dothan, Alabama broadcaster and perennial Alabama political candidate Charles Woods, who owned the station for about six years. WCWB's original studio facilities were located at its transmitter site, located 15 miles (24 km) east of Macon, on what local residents refer to as the "Cochran Short Route". Channel 41 has been an NBC affiliate since its debut; however, unlike many stations in (then) two-station markets, WCWB did not assume a secondary affiliation with ABC. During the 1970s and early 1980s, select ABC programs continued to air on WMAZ instead, during time periods when the station was not carrying CBS programming; Macon would not receive a full-time ABC affiliate of its own until WGXA (channel 24, now a Fox affiliate) signed on in April 1982. Woods sold channel 41 to a local group known as Bibb Television, Inc., led by his then-station manager, F. E. Busby, in 1974. The local group proved no more successful at making WCWB profitable than Woods had been, and current owner Morris Multimedia bought the station from Bibb four years later, in 1978.
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