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WGWG is a television station in the Lowcountry area of South Carolina licensed to Charleston. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 34 from a transmitter in Awendaw. It is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings and is affiliated with ZUUS Country until October 1, 2015 when it will switch to Heroes & Icons. From 1962 through 2014, what is now WGWG was the original home of WCIV, and had been Charleston's ABC affiliate since 1996; however, in August 2014, WCIV owner Allbritton Communications was acquired by Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of MyNetworkTV affiliate WMMP (channel 36) and operator of Fox affiliate WTAT-TV (channel 24). Due to ownership conflicts with WMMP and WTAT, and a recent crackdown on joint sales agreements by the FCC, Sinclair elected to sell the WCIV channel 4 license to Howard Stirk Holdings, and moved WCIV's ABC programming and news operation to a subchannel of WMMP's channel 36 signal. At the same time, the two stations also switched call signs, with WCIV moving to channel 36 and channel 4 becoming the new WMMP, though the MyNetworkTV affiliation remains on channel 36.1 and did not move to channel 4. The FCC approved HSH Charleston's purchase of channel 4 on December 4, 2014;〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fcc.gov/blog/making-good-promise-independent-minority-ownership-television-stations )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db1209/DOC-330861A2.txt )〕 the call letters became WGWG on March 11, 2015. Howard Stirk Holdings operates WGWG independently of WCIV and WTAT, and has not entered into a local marketing agreement with Sinclair. ==History== WGWG began operations on October 23, 1962 as WCIV, the third commercial outlet in Charleston. The original license was granted to WTMA-TV but the call letters were later changed to WCIV before it signed-on. It took the NBC affiliation from WCBD-TV (known as WUSN-TV at the time), leaving that station to become a full-time ABC affiliate. The station was originally owned by the Washington Star Company. In 1976, businessman Joe Allbritton bought the ''Star'' and sold off the non-television assets in 1978 to form Allbritton Communications. The station became an ABC affiliate in 1996 as part of Allbritton's affiliation deal with the network. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WGWG」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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