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WTGS is the Fox-affiliated television station for South Carolina's Lowcountry and Georgia's Coastal Empire. Licensed to Hardeeville, South Carolina, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 28 from a transmitter on Fort Argyle Road/SR 204 in western unincorporated Chatham County, Georgia. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, it has studios (with the ''Savannah Morning News'') on Chatham Parkway in Savannah. ==History== The station signed-on March 22, 1982 as the market's first general entertainment Independent outlet. It became a charter affiliate with Fox on October 9, 1986. Bluenose Broadcasting sold WTGS to California-based Parkin Broadcasting in May 2007 for $17.5 million. The station was previously owned by L.P. Media Inc., an affiliated company of Lewis Broadcasting which owned WJCL. Since Lewis' sale of WTGS and WJCL in 1999, the two outlets has been bought, sold, and refinanced twice. In fact in the most recent sale in 2007, WTGS was sold for $2 million less than its sale price in 1999 with WJCL. Since the station's sale to L.P. Media in the early-1990s, WTGS has been a sister outlet to WJCL. That station was most recently sold to New Vision Television. While owned-and-operated as a separate entity from WJCL, the station maintained facilities on Independence Boulevard/US 278/SC 141 in Hardeeville. On October 28, 2010, it was announced the two outlets would combine operations with the ''Savannah Morning News'' and be relocated to the newspaper's facility on Chatham Parkway in Savannah. The stations began broadcasting at their new location on October 4, 2011. WTGS and WJCL originally operated out of studios on Abercorn Street in Savannah. On May 7, 2012, LIN TV Corporation announced that it will acquire New Vision Television for $330.4 million and the assumption of $12 million in debt. Along with the outright ownership of WJCL, the agreement includes the acquisition of New Vision's shared services agreement with PBC Broadcasting (who is also transferring the licenses of the PBC-owned stations to Vaughan Media), giving LIN operational control of WTGS. On October 2, the FCC approved the sale to LIN TV.〔http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1498800.pdf〕 The transaction was completed that October 12. During Super Bowl XLVIII, WTGS notably aired a two-minute long advertisement by local personal injury lawyer Jamie Casino, which featured a thriller-styled retelling of how he stopped representing "cold-hearted villains" to avenge the shooting death of his brother Michael Biancosino in 2012, culminating with Casino digging through a grave with a sledgehammer. The ad gained media attention following the game as a viral video, and while the station did not provide exact numbers, a WTGS spokesperson stated that the ad was its most expensive advertising sale in history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/videos/georgia-lawyer-turns-local-super-bowl-ad-into-revenge-fantasy-20140203 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2014-02-03/savannah-lawyer-jamie-casinos-super-bowl-ad-turns-heads )〕 On March 21, 2014, LIN Media entered into an agreement to merge with Media General in a $1.6 billion deal. Because Media General already owns NBC affiliate WSAV-TV (channel 3), the companies were required to sell either WSAV or WJCL to another station owner in order to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as planned changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations which would prohibit sharing agreements.〔(TV Station Mega Merger: Media General, LIN Set $1.6 Billion Deal ) from ''Variety'' (March 21, 2014)〕〔(Media General acquiring LIN Media for $1.6 billion ), ''Los Angeles Times'', March 21, 2014.〕〔(Media Gen/LIN To Sell/Swap In Five Markets ), ''TVNewsCheck'', March 21, 2014.〕 On August 20, 2014, Media General announced that it would keep WSAV and sell WJCL to Hearst Television, with certain assets of WTGS, along with WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island and WLUK-TV and WCWF in Green Bay, going to Sinclair Broadcast Group in exchange for KXRM-TV and KXTU-LD in Colorado Springs and WTTA in Tampa Bay. Sinclair will also acquire the right to purchase other WTGS assets from WTGS Television LLC. The sale was completed on December 19.〔(Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes on Certain Station Acquisitions and Divestitures with Media General ), Press Release, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Retrieved 19 December, 2014〕 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「WTGS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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