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WUVG-DT, virtual channel 34 (UHF digital channel 48), is a Univision owned-and-operated television station serving Atlanta, Georgia, United States that is licensed to Athens. The station is owned by the Univision Television Group subsidiary of Univision Communications. WUVG-DT offers a Spanish-language programming format featuring TV news, talk shows, dramas, movies and other first-rate Spanish programming. WUVG is also active in many community outreach efforts and events throughout the year including several signature hosted celebrations- the two largest being "Cinco de Mayo" (5 May) and "Fiestas Patrias" (National Holidays) in September. ==History== The station went on air on April 18, 1987 as WNGM-TV with the call sign standing for North Georgia Mountains. Initially the station ran a general entertainment format with cartoons, classic and recent sitcoms, country music blocks of programming, old movies and syndicated first-run shows. The station's transmitter was located 60 miles (nearly 100 km) away from Atlanta, reaching Athens with a grade A signal while sending a very weak signal into eastern metro Atlanta. As a result, many syndicators sold the rights for shows that were already on the Atlanta stations to WNGM. The station provided an alternative to viewers in areas which had moderate VHF reception and poor UHF reception from Atlanta. However, the station floundered in the ratings. By late 1988, the station was running a blend of infomercials, low-rated syndicated shows and movies, and shop-at-home programming. In 1989, after the Home Shopping Network failed to buy WVEU (now WUPA), it arranged for Whitehead Media to buy WNGM. The station started to air HSN's programming 24 hours a day. In 1993, it moved its transmitter closer to Atlanta, covering the city with a grade A signal strength. This was the same radio tower as WFOX FM 97.1 and WYAY FM 106.7. Channel 34 was actually planned for this tower in 1984. In 1996, it switched to an all music videos format as an affiliate of The Box. The station was bought by USA Broadcasting (which was under the same ownership as HSN, under Barry Diller) in 1997. It became WHOT-TV in October 1999 (for Hotlanta, one of the city's nicknames) and changes its on-air name to "Hotlanta 34." WHOT gave the Atlanta market a second true independent station, the other one being WTBS, which was at the time a nationwide Superstation as well. While WUPA was a UPN station and WATL was an affiliate of The WB, they too were sort of independent stations being those networks only offered a couple hours of programming a day. WHOT added syndicated cartoons, off-network sitcoms, dramas, old movies and syndicated talk/reality shows to its lineup, and also picked up Fox Kids from WATL. (The successor to Fox Kids, 4Kids TV, later moved to WUPA after WHOT/WUVG became a Univision station until that station switched to The CW; afterwards, the block was not aired on any Atlanta station until it went off the air in December 2008. Today, Fox offers a replacement infomercial block, ''Weekend Marketplace'', which currently airs on WATL.) The station didn't receive spectacular ratings, but was still performing decently. In 2000, WHOT obtained the rights to Atlanta Hawks basketball games. USA then planned to sell its stations to Disney/ABC, which would've created a partnership for Cox-owned ABC affiliate WSB-TV, but Univision outbid its competition in a close race. In markets which already had Univision affiliates, the newly acquired stations became affiliates of TeleFutura, a new network started by Univision. However, WHOT was Univision's only station in Atlanta (which had a relatively low, but growing, Spanish-speaking population). As such, the station changed its call sign to WUVG (for Univision Georgia) in November 2001 and became Atlanta's Univision affiliate on January 14, 2002. 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「WUVG-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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