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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Georgia Public Broadcasting |
 | | In 1960 public television in the state, known as Georgia Educational Television, began with station WGTV, located in Athens at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education. |
 | | In 1982 the license for Georgia Educational Television was transferred from the University of Georgia to the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, and later that year it officially became Georgia Public Television, with headquarters in Atlanta. |
 | | GPB Radio, broadcasting twenty-four hours a day, operates fifteen FM stations and one AM station: Albany, 91.7 FM; Athens, 91.7 FM; Augusta, 90.7 FM; Brunswick, 88.9 FM; Carrollton, 90.7 FM; Columbus, 88.1 FM; Dahlonega, 89.5 FM; Demorest, 88.3 FM; Fort Gaines, 90.9 FM; Macon, 89.7 FM; Rome, 97.7 FM; Savannah, 91.1 FM; St. |
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