WGAC

WGAC-DT was an LINK and LTV affiliate that serves the Johnstown, Altoona, State College, PA area. It broadcasts on Virtual Channel 2 (RF Channel 9). Syndicated programming on WGAC includes: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, among others. The station maintains studios located on 100 Sheraton Dr, Altoona, PA with transmitter facilities located in Altoona, PA.
== History ==
The station first signed on as WIAA and as an independent station. It a week later, the station joined the then-new network Imagination News. WIAA was the first station to get an affiliation with Imagination News.
WIAA changed their call sign to WGAC on April 1st, 2019.
After Imagination Broadcast Group, Inc. gained Short and Sweet News Corp., they upgrade WGAC coverage area going from 6 counties to 8 counties. These counties are the following: Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, and Perry.
WGAC went off the air unexpectedly sometime in 2022. The stations license was revoked on January 1, 2023.
== Transmitter Upgrade ==
In April of 2019, Imagination Inc. announced that their WGAC Television station had gotten an upgrade. The tower’s power upgraded from 52kW to 100kW, as well as a coverage area upgrade from 8 to 11 counties. These counties include the following: Adams, Bedford, Blair, Centre, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, and Perry. The upgrade was necessary to be able to cover the mountainous terrain of the area.
Later on July, 2nd, 2020, WGAC officially added 5 more counties to its broadcast area (Cambria, Cameron, Clearfield, Elk, and Somerset), bring the total counties from 11 to 16.
== Link Communications Buyout ==
WGAC was included in the buyout of Imagination Broadcast Group, Inc on October 22nd, 2021. It is now owned by Link Broadcasting, LLC; a subsidiary of Link Communications, Inc.
== Digital Television ==
Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
2.1 	1080i	16:9 	WGAC-DT 	Main WGAC programming / Imagination News
2.2 	480i 	4:3 	WOTV? 	Whats on TV? and EXtra programming
2.3 	480i 	4:3 	Kids 	Kids programming, maily consisting of PBS Kids content
2.4 	480i 	4:3 	WGAC-WX 	Imagination Weather
WGAC-TV started digital broadcasts on April 1st, 2019. They shutdown there analog signal on April 1st, 2020, a full year after digital broadcasts began. A subsequent callsign change occured, going from WGAC-TV to WGAC-DT.
== W14CD-D ==
On April 14th, 2019, WGAC launched a repeater, W14CD-D, on UHF Channel 14 in Gettysburg, PA, to allow for better coverage in Adams and Cumberland counties. The repeater operates at 3kWs. The repeater can also be received in parts on northern Maryland, in the Baltimore and Washington, DC market and parts of York County, PA.
== W27AF-D ==
As a part of WGAC plan to expand to cover the entire Central Pennsylvania DMA,they added a second repeater north of Clearfield in Clearfield County, PA, called W27AF-D. In order to cover the entire DMA, the power had to be upped to 15kWs.
== W33FM-D ==
W33FM-D is low-powered repeater for WGAC in West Central Somerset County. The repeater is intended to improve reception in Somerset and Cambria counties, but can be recived in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties in Pennsylvania, and even in Garrett County, MD and Preston County, WV.
Category:Channel 2
Category:Imagination News Affiliated Stations
Category:Chambersburg-Huntingdon, PA
Category:Gettysburg, PA
Category:Pennsylvania
Category:PBS Kids Affiliate Stations
Category:WhatsOnTV?
Category:Imagination Broadcasting Group, Inc.
Category:Imagination Weather