WTGS
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Hardeeville, South Carolina/ Savannah, Georgia United States |
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| Branding | Fox 28 (general) Fox 28 News at 10pm (newscast) |
| Channels | Digital: 28 (UHF/) |
| Subchannels | 28.1 Fox 28.2 Comet TV 28.3 Antenna TV 28.4 TBD |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WTGS Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | March 22, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning |
We're Television for Georgia and South Carolina |
| Former channel number(s) | 28 (UHF analog, 1982–2009) 27 (UHF digital, –2009) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1982–1986) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 455 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 27245 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°2′46.2″N 81°20′26.2″W / 32.046167°N 81.340611°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | fox28media |
WTGS is the Fox-affiliated television station for South Carolina's Lowcountry and Georgia's Coastal Empire. Licensed to Hardeeville, South Carolina, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 28 from a transmitter on Fort Argyle Road/SR 204 in western unincorporated Chatham County, Georgia. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, it has studios (with the Savannah Morning News) on Chatham Parkway in Savannah.
The station signed-on March 22, 1982 as the market's first general entertainment Independent outlet. It became a charter affiliate with Fox on October 9, 1986. Bluenose Broadcasting sold WTGS to California-based Parkin Broadcasting in May 2007 for $17.5 million. The station was previously owned by L.P. Media Inc., an affiliated company of Lewis Broadcasting which owned WJCL. Since Lewis' sale of WTGS and WJCL in 1999, the two outlets has been bought, sold, and refinanced twice. In fact in the most recent sale in 2007, WTGS was sold for $2 million less than its sale price in 1999 with WJCL.
Since the station's sale to L.P. Media in the early-1990s, WTGS has been a sister outlet to WJCL. That station was most recently sold to New Vision Television. While owned-and-operated as a separate entity from WJCL, the station maintained facilities on Independence Boulevard/US 278/SC 141 in Hardeeville. On October 28, 2010, it was announced the two outlets would combine operations with the Savannah Morning News and be relocated to the newspaper's facility on Chatham Parkway in Savannah. The stations began broadcasting at their new location on October 4, 2011. WTGS and WJCL originally operated out of studios on Abercorn Street in Savannah.
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