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Channels Digital: 6 (VHF)
Virtual: 14 (PSIP) Subchannels 14.1 - GPB/PBS HD (1080i)
14.2 - GPB Create TV (480i)
14.3 - GPB Knowledge (480i) Owner Georgia Public Broadcasting
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WABW-TV digital channel 6 (Ex-Analog Channel 14) part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) public broadcasting network, serves Albany and southwestern Georgia, from its transmitter in Pelham. The station's signal travels in about a 50-mile (80-km) radius from the transmitter site, carrying it into the Tallahassee and central north Florida area also.
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The broadcast tower was shared by W232AB 94.3 Camilla, which retransmitted GPB Radio from WABR FM 91.1 Tifton until its license was cancelled on August 27, 2015.
Albany is served by two GPB TV channels, with WACS-TV in Dawson as the other, but WABW is Albany's GPB station of record.
History
WABW-TV signed on January 2, 1967 as part of the Georgia Educational Television Network. It was the seventh educational television station in Georgia.
Digital television
WABW-TV broadcasts the following digital subchannels:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WABW-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 14, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated on its pre-transition VHF channel 5 to channel 6 (used by WCTV for analog operations). Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.