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#REDIRECT [[Georgia Public Broadcasting]]
{{short description|PBS member station in Wrens, Georgia}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WCES-TV
| above = {{nowrap|[[broadcast relay station#Satellite stations|Satellite]] of [[WGTV]], [[Athens, Georgia|Athens]]/[[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]]}}
| city = Wrens, Georgia
| logo = GaPublicBroadcasting Logo.svg
| logo_size = 165px
| branding = [[Georgia Public Broadcasting|GPB]]
| slogan = ''Television Worth Sharing''
| analog =
| digital = 6 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])
| virtual = 20 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]])
| subchannels =
| translators = ''W11DD-D 11 [[Hartwell, Georgia|Hartwell]]/[[Royston, Georgia|Royston]]''
| affiliations = {{GPB DTV/text|20}}
| founded =
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1966|09|12|p=y}}
| location = [[Wrens, Georgia|Wrens]]/[[Augusta, Georgia]]
| country = United States
| callsign_meaning = '''W''' '''C'''entral-<br />'''E'''ast Georgia and<br />'''S'''outh Carolina
| former_callsigns =
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:'''<br>20 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]], 1966–2009)<br />'''Digital:'''<br>2 (VHF, 2003–2009)
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| owner = [[Georgia Public Broadcasting]]
| licensee = Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission
| sister_stations = '''TV:''' [[WGTV]], [[WXGA-TV]], [[WVAN-TV]], [[WABW-TV]], [[WNGH-TV]], [[WACS-TV]], [[WJSP-TV]], [[WMUM-TV]]<br>'''Radio:''' [[WACG-FM]]
| former_affiliations = [[National Educational Television|NET]] (1966–1970)
| erp = 7.9 [[kilowatt|kW]]
| haat = {{convert|426|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class =
| facility_id = 23937
| coordinates = {{Coord|33|15|33|N|82|17|7.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.gpb.org/}}
}}


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'''WCES-TV''', [[virtual channel]] 20 ([[Very high frequency|VHF]] [[digital terrestrial television|digital]] channel 6), is a Public Broadcasting Service ([[PBS]]) [[network affiliate#member station|member]] [[television station]] serving [[Augusta, Georgia]], United States that is [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Wrens, Georgia|Wrens]]. Owned by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, it is a [[sister station]] to National Public Radio ([[NPR]]) member [[WACG-FM]] (90.7&nbsp;MHz). WCES-TV's transmitter is located northeast of Wrens in [[unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated]] [[Jefferson County, Georgia|Jefferson County]]. The station is operated as part of the [[state network|statewide]] [[Georgia Public Broadcasting]] (GPB) television network.


WCES-TV serves Augusta, surrounding east-central Georgia, west-central [[South Carolina]], and the [[Savannah River]] valley (also known locally as the Central Savannah River Area [CSRA]).

==History==
WCES-TV's first broadcast was on September 12, 1966, on the [[National Educational Television]] (NET) network as the sixth educational station in Georgia and the fifth station in what was then known as Georgia Educational Television. On October 5, 1970, WCES-TV and all nine stations in what was by then Georgia Public Television became a part of the new [[PBS]] network. Its digital television signal on channel 2 started in 2003.

The station chose to keep its digital signal on channel 2 in the first-round [[digital channel election]], but requested channel 6 in the third round. This is because low VHF ([[band I]]) has a lot of [[electromagnetic interference|RF noise]], which is worse on the lowest channels.

The [[Radio masts and towers|radio tower]] was built in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrRegistration.jsp?regKey=121133 |title=ASR Registration Search: Registration 1018796 |accessdate=2006-06-28 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714144149/http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrRegistration.jsp?regKey=121133 |archivedate=July 14, 2014 }} fcc.gov. Retrieved March 6, 2017.</ref>

==Digital programming==
{{GPB DTV|20|WCES-TV|Create|Knowledge|Kids}}<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WCES#station RabbitEars TV Query for WCES]</ref>

==Translators==
Both translators are, or were, located near the state's border with South Carolina, in areas where coverage from a full-powered GPB transmitter is insufficient. This is due to the distance from the main transmitters and the hilly terrain in northeast Georgia.

*'''W11DD-D''' [[Hartwell, Georgia|Hartwell]] & [[Royston, Georgia|Royston]], replaced analog '''W22AC''' on 22
*<s>'''W60AE'''</s> [[Elberton, Georgia|Elberton]], applied for digital on 10, deleted in 2007

W22AC was temporarily [[Dark (broadcasting)|off-air]] for two months in early 2008, when GPB [[broadcast engineer]]s had to borrow its [[TV transmitter]] to get [[WACS-TV]] back on-air. That station was destroyed by a [[tornado]] in March 2007, and had to begin broadcasting again within a year, or its [[broadcast license|license]] would have been automatically canceled by law.

==See also==
{{Portal|Television|State of Georgia}}
*[[Media in Augusta, Georgia]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.gpb.org/ GPB website]
**[http://www.gpb.org/files/pdfs/tv_stationmap2A.pdf GPB stations map] — includes WCES coverage area
*{{TVQ|WCES-TV}}
**{{TVQ|W11DD-D}}
**{{TVQ|DW60AE}}
*{{BIA|WCES|TV|TV}}

{{Augusta TV}}
{{PBS Georgia}}
{{GPB}}

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