WGAL

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WGAL
Brand WGAL 8
City of License Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Market Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, Pennsylvania
Channel 8 digital
8.2 subcarrier (NBC Weather Plus)
Formerly: 4 analog (1949–52)
8 analog (1952-2009)
58 digital (1998-2009)
Network Affiliation Current: NBC
Formerly: CBS (secondary), ABC (secondary), DuMont (secondary)
Founded March 18, 1949
Company Hearst-Argyle Television
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows News 8
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Dr. Phil

WGAL is a local station based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that broadcasts on digital channel 8. Their subcarrier, 8.2, carries NBC Plus. The call letters stand for Wonderful Gardens at Lancaster. WGAL was founded on March 18, 1949 on analog channel 4. In 1952, after increasing their power, they moved to channel 8 to avoid interference with Washington, DC based WRC-TV. In addition to being an NBC affiliate, the station had carried some CBS, ABC and DuMont programming until 1963. They are well known for their news, and according to Nielsen Media Researched in 2006, they were the #1 station in the top 50 markets nationally for their 6AM and 6PM news.

WGAL's digital signal originally signed on in 1998 on channel 58. As the digital spectrum goes up to channel 51, WGAL relocated their channel spot to their post-transition choice, channel 8.

[edit] Current Prime-Time Schedule

Day 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00
Monday Entertainment Tonight Access Hollywood Law & Order Law & Order: Criminal Intent (broadcast premieres) Dateline NBC News 8
Tuesday Entertainment Tonight Access Hollywood Great American Road Trip America's Got Talent Law & Order: Special Victims Unit News 8
Wednesday Entertainment Tonight Access Hollywood America's Got Talent (encores) America's Got Talent The Philanthropist News 8
Thursday Entertainment Tonight Access Hollywood 30 Rock The Office The Office 30 Rock The Listener News 8
Friday Entertainment Tonight Access Hollywood The Choppimg Block Dateline NBC News 8
Saturday Entertainment Tonight Kings Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order News 8
Sunday Dateline NBC Merlin Merlin Various Programming News 8

[edit] External Links

Official Site

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