WVAN-TV
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Savannah/Pembroke, Georgia United States |
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| Branding | GPB |
| Slogan | Television worth sharing |
| Channels | Digital: 9 (VHF/PSIP) |
| Subchannels |
9.1 - GPB/PBS HD (1080i) |
| Owner |
Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission) |
| First air date | September 17, 1963 |
| Call letters' meaning | Ernest VANdiver, former governor of Georgia |
| Sister station(s) | WSVH |
| Former channel number(s) | 9 (VHF analog, 1963–2009) 13 (VHF digital, 2000–2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1963–1970) |
| Transmitter power | 20 kW |
| Height | 293 m (961 ft) |
| Facility ID | 23947 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°8′49.2″N 81°37′4.3″W / 32.147000°N 81.617861°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.gpb.org |
9.1 - GPB/PBS HD (1080i)
9.2 - GPB Create TV (480i)
WVAN-TV channel 9 is a non-commercial educational television station located in Savannah, Georgia, USA. WVAN-TV is part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting public television network and carries programming from PBS, GPB and other sources. The station's transmitter is co-located with sister radio station WSVH (91.1 FM) on a broadcast tower in Pembroke, west of Savannah and just north of Fort Stewart. Although it appears that the call letters stand for SaVANnah, they are actually a tribute to former Georgia governor, Ernest Vandiver.
The station's signal travels in about a 45-mile (75 km) radius from the TV antenna site. Like most stations in the Savannah media market, it also serves the extreme southern tip of South Carolina including Beaufort and Hilton Head Island.
WVAN-TV began broadcasting on September 17, 1963 as the fourth educational TV station in the state of Georgia.
In station IDs for GPB's television stations, each station lists two cities in its legal ID—the smaller community where the station is licensed (usually the transmitter location), and the larger city it serves. However, WVAN is actually licensed to serve Savannah. To conform to the pattern, WVAN's second city is Pembroke, where its transmitter is located. A similar situation exists for WJSP-TV, which is licensed to Columbus, Georgia with transmitter in Warm Springs.
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