WDWW-LD, virtual and UHF

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channel 28, is a low-powered

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licensed to

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, United States. The station is owned by DTV America Corporation. Its

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is located on Horsetrough Mountain on the western part of the

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county line northwest of Clermont, and covers almost as far as Blairsville,

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, and Cumming.

History

Prior to 2016, it was owned by Richard & Lisa Goetz of

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, who applied for the station in 2000 and were granted a permit in mid February 2004 as W28CV, which they changed the

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of two weeks later, well before going on-air. Its digital companion was WDWW-LD, a

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issued far to the southwest to serve

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on channel 7. This station began transmission from Sweat Mountain in early September 2009, but ceased a few months later. The station used a

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which sent the signal in an arc from south (toward Atlanta) to northeast (toward Cumming, the only slight overlap it had with its analog

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). It had a wide and total null toward the west and northwest in order to protect

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station WCIQ television at Mount Cheaha, thus it did not even reach nearby

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, with which it had a direct line of sight. The station later had this permit cancelled and instead applied for and received in early November 2010 a permit to make a

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on channel 28, while moving the station into Atlanta but at a different location than before. It will now be located on the east

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at the North Druid Hills site, along with many other TV and FM stations. Unlike the original digital companion channel, this permit retains Cleveland as its city of license instead of Atlanta. The

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will be versus on Sweat Mountain. The

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will be 15 kW instead of 300 watts, respectively about 0.3% and 0.1% of what is allowed for full-power stations on UHF and high VHF. The station was licensed for digital operation on November 28, 2017, and changed its call sign to WDWW-LD.Digital TV Market Listing for WDWW-LD
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Digital channels

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wdww-Ld Stadium (sports network) affiliates DTV America Television stations in Georgia (U.S. state) Television channels and stations established in 2007 2007 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Low-power television stations in the United States