WPCH-TV

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WPCH-TV (channel 17), branded as Peachtree TV, is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by Gray Media alongside independent station and company flagship WANF (channel 46), and low-power, Class A Telemundo affiliate WKTB-CD (channel 47). WPCH-TV and WANF share studios on 14th Street Northwest in Atlanta's Home Park neighborhood; WPCH-TV's transmitter is located in the Woodland Hills section of northeastern Atlanta. Atlanta's channel 17 was put on the air by local businessman Jack Rice and began broadcasting as WJRJ-TV on September 1, 1967. At the time the only ultra high frequency (UHF) station serving Atlanta, it was an independent station reliant on programming not carried by the local network affiliates. The money-losing venture found a new investor as Ted Turner, owner of an outdoor advertising firm and radio stations elsewhere in the South, acquired majority control in 1970. Renamed WTCG, the station continued to lose money as it...

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