WHAG-TV

WHAG-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland, United States, serving the Hagerstown, Maryland market as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Tuscarora Broadcasting. WHAG-TV's studio is located in downtown Hagerstown in the same building as sister station WCVH-TV, and its transmitter is located northwest of Hagerstown near Clear Spring. 
During the analog era, WHAG-TV was the only VHF channel in the Hagerstown MD market. However, to prevent interference, WHAG-TV operated at a limited power at its main site. This resulted in poor reception in the western portion to the market.
==History ==
===Early years===
WHAG-TV went on air in black and white on April 12, 1950 as an affiliate of NBC primarily, as well as a secondary CBS affiliation. While not officially a affiliation, ABC programming was broadcast during outside of normal hours, as the struggling network did not have any presence in the area until WJEJ-TV on channel 48 went live in 1986. WHAG-TV studios were located in downtown Hagerstown, in the same building as sister FM station WEEO-FM is located today
===Move to Current Hagerstown Studios===
WHAG-TV moved their studios to their current location in Hagerstown in 1969. This would be the same building WCVH-TV would move into in 1984.
===1990s===
Fox approached the network in 1995 about broadcasting Fox Sports on Saturdays and Sundays. This lasted until 1996 when WCVH-TV became a Fox affiliate.
===Digital Era to Today===
WHAG-TV was the first station to bring digital broadcasts to the Hagerstown market in 2001. That same year, Tuscarora Broadcasting bought WCVH-TV, and renovated the building they were in to more tightly integrate the two stations, whilst still keeping separate local newscasts, but merging local weather and traffic news. Master control was also consolidated, with a move to digitize master control also being made.
===WHAG-DT2===
WHAG-TV began experimental HD broadcasts of network programming on channel 12.2 in 2004. In 2006, this channel ended and the main 12.1 channel was broadcasting in HD, however newscasts were still in SD, only upscaled to HD. By 2011, all programming was in HD and the subchannel went dark. WHAG-TV began broadcasts of LINK news and sports on channel 12.2 in 2016 in SD widescreen. This ended in 2021 with LINK Communications buying out WJEJ-TV. The subchannel went dark until 2022, when they began broadcasting the Big 10 Network (B1G).
===WHAG-DT3===
WHAG-TV began its third subchannel in 2005 with NBC Weather Plus as its main affiliate. In 2009, they ended NBC Weather Plus and replaced it with a Weatherscan loop. This loop included local weather cut ins from the main WHAG-TV weather studio.
===WHAG-DT4===
WHAG-TV started airing a new network Outdoors in 2023, when its owner, Tuscarora Broadcasting, started the network. WHAG-TV is the main studio where programming originates to be distributed, and where many shows are edited and the major interviews are filmed.
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The stations digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel	RF Channel	Video	Aspect	Short Name	Programming
12.1 	12.1 	1080i	16:9 	WHAG 	WHAG-TV / NBC
12.2 	12.2 	480i 	16:9 	BIG TEN 	Big 10 Network
12.3 	12.3 	480i 	4:3 	WHAG WX 	Weather
12.4 	12.4 	480i 	16:9 	OUTDOOR 	Outdoors
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
WHAG-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. WHAG-TV intended to move the digital signal to 12 after the transition, but technical issues, the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 52. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 12.
The FCC granted WHAG-TV a STA to operate on channel 52 until September 12, 2009. On August 12, 2009, WHAG-TV began simulcasting on both VHF 12, with virtual channels 12.11, 12.12, and 12.13 and UHF 52 with virtual channels 12.1, 12.2, and 12.3, until the expiration of the STA. On September 12, 2009, WHAG-TV ended UHF digital broadcasts.
===Translators===
City of license	Callsign	Channel	ERP 	HAAT	Transmitter coordinates	Owner
Keyser 	W16CV 	16 	12.5 kW	424m	39.382306,-79.078972 	Tuscarora Broadcasting(Keyser TV Cooperative, LLC)
====Translator Subchannels====
Channel	RF Channel	Video	Aspect	Short Name	Programming
12.1 	16.1 	1080i	16:9 	WHAG 	WHAG-TV / NBC
12.2 	16.2 	480i 	16:9 	BIG TEN 	Big 10 Network
12.3 	16.3 	480i 	4:3 	WHAG WX 	Weather
12.4 	16.4 	480i 	16:9 	OUTDOOR 	Outdoors
25.1 	16.5 	1080i	16:9 	WCVH 	WCVH-TV / FOX
25.2 	16.6 	480i 	16:9 	MyN 25 	MyNetworkTV
25.3 	16.7 	480i 	16:9 	FOX WX 	FOX Weather
Category:Hagerstown, MD
Category:Hagerstown
Category:Maryland
Category:Tuscarora Broadcasting
Category:Channel 12