WVBG-LP is an low-power television

Low-power broadcasting

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 station that broadcasts on UHF

Ultra high frequency

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 channel 25 from the Pinnacle Campsite area on the Heidelberg Mountains.

The station signed on in 1998 as an affiliate of UPN

UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

. However, in 2000, it would lose its affiliation to cable-only WEDG-TV

WEDG-TV

WEDG-TV was a cable-only UPN affiliate in New York's Capital District which was a joint venture between Time Warner Cable and Fox affiliate WXXA-TV.Edge TV, named for and promoted with a sister radio station, signed on at the start of 2000, displacing Boston's WSBK from...

, which would later go off-the-air in favor of WNYA

WNYA

WNYA is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Capital District of New York State and Western New England. Licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, WNYA broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 from a transmitter northwest of New Salem, New York, along with a...

. The station was forced to go independent

Independent station

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, but later joined the Resort Sports Network

Resort Sports Network

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, based in Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

.

Until 2000, WVBG was, under Vision Broadcasting, co-owned with two other low-power stations, WVBK-LP

WVBK-CA

WVBK-CA is the Outside Television affiliate for southern Vermont, licensed in Manchester. The station's over-the-air transmissions are on VHF channel 2, with no digital signal; the 12 and 20 in WVBK's branding refer to its cable slots . WVBK is owned by Vision 3 Broadcasting...

 channel 49 in Manchester, Vermont (now on channel 2) and WVBX-LP channel 47 in Glens Falls, New York

Glens Falls, New York

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 (now WNYA-CA channel 15, the Albany

Albany, New York

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 repeater for WNYA), which both served as repeaters for the station. This network was broken up in 2000, when WVBG was sold to a group of rural telephone companies in Upstate New York

Upstate New York

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 and Vermont

Vermont

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.

WVBG has a construction permit to move to channel 41 and increase its effective radiated power to 150 kilowatts, the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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's maximum power for low-power stations. The station will relocate its transmitter to Clarksville, New York

Clarksville, New York

There are two places in New York named Clarksville:*Clarksville, Albany County, New York - a hamlet*Clarksville, Allegany County, New York - a town...

, on the other side of the Heidelberg Mountains. As of 2008 WVBG had a new digital CP to change on channel 41 to digital transmission. Station currently is dark & has been for sometime.

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