WGSF-CD

**WGSF-CD** (channel 48) is a Class A television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, broadcasting the Telemundo network in Spanish. The Dorado Media Group owns it with NBC affiliate WWCD (channel 2). The two stations share studios on Olentangy River Road near the campus of The Ohio State University, while WGSF-CD's transmitter is located in the Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus.

## History

From 1963 until 1976, WGSF was an educational television station in Newark, Ohio. The Licking County Foundation for Public Giving launched the station on behalf of the Newark City School District. Newark High School was the birthplace of studios.

During the early years of the station's existence, WGSF transmitted on UHF channel 28, airing a combination of local programming and programs from National Educational Television (through film and videotape) and WOSU-TV in Columbus (via an off-air pickup). WGSF received equipment and cameras on loan from WCET, the educational station in Cincinnati. WGSF could not purchase the cameras in 1966; shortly after that, Cleveland's then-CBS station WJW-TV donated two cameras to WGSF.

The station broadcasted on channel 28 until 1970, when the Ohio ETV Network Commission, The Ohio State University (owners of WOSU), and Nationwide Broadcasting requested a shift to channel 31, with Nationwide providing funding for the relocation. In 1970, WGSF joined PBS and was quickly connected to the national feed, removing WOSU's dependency on networked programming.

WGSF ceased broadcasting on June 30, 1976, not only because of aging equipment but also because of opportunities for Newark City Schools to operate a channel on cable TV (due to laws requiring cable systems to dedicate a channel for educational television use) and opportunities for Ohio's PBS affiliates to expand to underserved communities. The day after the station's closure, WOSU launched W31AA, a low-powered repeater on the former WGSF channel. (W31AA will close in 2009 due to WOSU-migration TVs to digital.) Newark City School's cable channel would launch in 1977 after the local cable franchise established a cable hookup to Newark High.

The frequency of channel 28 would be reassigned to Columbus as a commercial frequency; this channel would be revived in 1984 when WNCI began broadcasting.

### The first incarnation of Telemundo Columbus (2006–2010)

From 2006 to 2010, Telemundo was carried on a second digital subchannel of WWCD, making it the city's first full-power Spanish-language television station.

Nevertheless, on December 31, 2010, after five years on the air, the subchannel ceased broadcasting, leaving Central Ohio without Spanish-language programming.

Landover 2, LLC was given a building permit to construct a new low-power television station on channel 22, W22EI-D, at Murray Hill (a suburb of Cookeville). Due to the repack, the permission was inactive for several years. Lowcountry 34 Media, LLC (owned by Jeffrey Winemiller) would acquire the station on July 30, 2021; Winemiller relocated the facility to channel 48 at Columbus, with the new call sign W48ER-D and finished construction of the station, which broadcasts two subchannels of Christian programming.

Winemiller initially applied to sell W48ER-D to Marquee Broadcasting in August 2021; however, he ultimately decided to sell another low-power station to the organization. After that, Winemiller sought to sell the channel 48 station to the Dorado Media Group. Twenty-four low-power facilities, including two in Ohio, were involved in the $3.75 million transaction between Lowcountry 34 and Dorado.

### Telemundo conversion

Dorado stated on May 3, 2022, that it had achieved an agreement with Telemundo to launch Telemundo channels in 22 more Southern areas, mainly as complements to Dorado stations, and renew affiliations in 12 others. The new service debuted on August 29, 2022, with WGSF-CD transmitting the primary WWCD 2.1 subchannel as 2.10.

## Technical information

### Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

 **48.2** | 480i
 **48.3** | Justice
 **2.10** | 720p