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{{Short description|Television station in Monroe, Georgia}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WHSG-TV
| city                   = Monroe, Georgia
| logo                   =
| branding               = 
| analog                 = 
| digital                = 22 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 63
| subchannels            =
| translators            = 
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''63.1:''' [[Trinity Broadcasting Network|TBN]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| network                = 
| founded                = 
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1991|3|15|p=y}}
| location               = [[Monroe, Georgia|Monroe]]–[[Atlanta]], Georgia
| country                = United States
| callsign_meaning       = "His Saving Grace"
| former_callsigns       = 
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 63 (UHF, 1991–2009)|'''Digital:''' 44 (UHF, 2009–2019)}}
| owner                  = [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]]
| licensee               = Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.
| sister_stations        = 
| former_affiliations    = 
| erp                    = 1,000 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|310.3|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = 
| facility_id            = 68058
| coordinates            = {{nowrap|{{coord|33|44|40.9|N|84|21|35.7|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.tbn.org/}} 
}}

'''WHSG-TV''' (channel 63) is a [[religious television station]] licensed to [[Monroe, Georgia]], United States, serving the [[Atlanta]] area as an [[owned-and-operated station]] of the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]] (TBN). The station's transmitter is located in Atlanta's [[Cabbagetown, Atlanta|Cabbagetown]] section.

Because it airs no local content (except for [[local insertion]] of the required [[station identification]]), it is not carried as a local channel on [[DirecTV]]; the network's national feed is already available, but TBN's subchannel sister networks are not available.

It had one [[broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|broadcast translator]], W55BM, licensed to [[Marietta, Georgia|Marietta]] with transmitter atop [[Sweat Mountain]], northwest of Atlanta. That station was later W49DE and WXID-LP, an affiliate of [[JCTV]].

==History==
The [[construction permit#broadcasting|construction permit]] for a new television station on channel 63 at Monroe was originally issued to a local permittee, Monroe Television, Inc., around 1987.<ref>{{cite news|title=For the Record–Call letters–Grants–New TV's|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/88-OCR/BC-1988-03-21-OCR-Page-0074.pdf|access-date=April 29, 2023|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]]|date=March 21, 1988|page=74}}</ref> In December 1989, TBN purchased the permit and completed the station's construction;<ref>{{cite news|title=For the Record–Ownership changes–Actions|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/88-OCR/BC-1989-12-11-OCR-Page-0084.pdf|access-date=April 29, 2023|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]]|date=December 11, 1989|page=84}}</ref> WHSG commenced operations on March 15, 1991, as a TBN owned-and-operated outlet.

During the late 1990s through the early 2010s, WHSG played an important role within TBN, as it originated a weekly edition of the network's flagship program ''[[Praise (TV program)|Praise the Lord]]'' and a portion of the ministry's semi-annual ''Praise-a-Thon'' [[fundraiser]]s. This ended in 2017 when TBN revamped its local and network programming operations following [[Matt Crouch (TBN)|Matt Crouch]]'s ascension to leadership of the ministry, after the death of his mother and TBN co-founder [[Jan Crouch]]. The station's studio on Agape Way in [[Decatur, Georgia|Decatur]] was officially closed by TBN in 2019 following the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC)'s repeal of the Main Studio Rule, and later sold.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://charismamag.com/blogs/the-strang-report/how-trump-s-new-regulation-cuts-will-save-tbn-20-million-a-year-for-gospel-purposes/|work=[[Charisma (magazine)|Charisma]]|first=Steve|last=Strang|date=July 15, 2019|title=How Trump's New Regulation Cuts Will Save TBN $20 Million a Year for Gospel Purposes|access-date=March 8, 2023|archive-date=August 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812185214/https://charismamag.com/blogs/the-strang-report/how-trump-s-new-regulation-cuts-will-save-tbn-20-million-a-year-for-gospel-purposes/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
{{TBN DTV|63}}<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WHSG#station RabbitEars TV Query for WHSG]</ref>

===Analog-to-digital transition===
WHSG-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 63, on April 16, 2009.<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations]</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using [[virtual channel]] 63, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

The station's analog transmitter was located in northern [[Rockdale County]], halfway between Monroe and Atlanta. The station's digital facility is immediately south of Atlanta's [[Inman Park]] neighborhood, along the north side of [[Interstate 20 in Georgia|Interstate 20]]. This is the same tower used by [[WUPA]] (channel 69), built by that station when its original location (atop the [[Westin Peachtree Plaza]] hotel) could not hold a second large TV antenna for digital, although WUPA has since moved to the [[list of Atlanta broadcast stations by location#North Druid Hills|North Druid Hills site]], sharing an antenna through a [[diplexer]]. It also has [[WIRE-CD]] (channel 40), an expired [[construction permit]] for [[W06CM-D]] (channel 6), and a license for [[WYGA-CD]] on channel 16 (as well as a permit for 18 and a later app for 16 again). No serious damage occurred to the tower when the [[2008 Atlanta tornado]] passed by the site, even though the then-analog WYGA-CA 45 (operating from the site under [[special temporary authority|STA]] at very low power until [[WGCL-TV]] (channel 46) went digital) was knocked off-air. WHSG had an application to increase from 700&nbsp;kW to its maximum 1,000&nbsp;kW [[effective radiated power]] with the same antenna height, which is now licensed at the new site.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{URL|https://www.tbn.org/|TBN official website}}
**[http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=TV157897.html FCC coverage map for WHSG-TV]

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