WGMB-TV, the Glossary
WGMB-TV (channel 44) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.[1]
Table of Contents
60 relations: Action Pack (TV programming block), Addis, Louisiana, Alexandria, Louisiana, Aspect ratio (image), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Columbia Pictures, Communications Corporation of America, Cozi TV, Digital television transition in the United States, Display resolution, Feature film, Federal Communications Commission, Fox Broadcasting Company, Gumbo, High school football, Houston, In Living Color, Independent station, KADN-TV, KETK-TV, KLFY-TV, KMSS-TV, KPEJ-TV, KTAL-TV, KVEO-TV, KWKT-TV, KZUP-CD, Lafayette, Louisiana, Layoff, Local marketing agreement, LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers, Married... with Children, Mission Broadcasting, Multiplex (television), National Association of Broadcasters, NBC, Nexstar Media Group, Owned-and-operated station, Prime Time Entertainment Network, Public service announcement, Shared services, Short-term Analog Flash and Emergency Readiness Act, Shreveport, Louisiana, Southern Jaguars and Lady Jaguars, Television station, The CW, The Simpsons, Today (American TV program), Tyler, Texas, ... Expand index (10 more) »
- 1991 establishments in Louisiana
Action Pack (TV programming block)
Action Pack, also called Universal Action Pack, was a syndicated programming block series of television movies and television series created by Universal Television that aired from 1994 until 2001.
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Addis, Louisiana
Addis is a town in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge (French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge,; Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.
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Communications Corporation of America
Communications Corporation of America (also known as ComCorp) was a broadcasting company in the United States that owned television stations in smaller markets. WGMB-TV and Communications Corporation of America are Nexstar Media Group.
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Cozi TV
Cozi TV (stylized on-air as COZI TV) is an American free-to-air television network owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal.
Digital television transition in the United States
The digital transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming.
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Display resolution
The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
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Feature film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.
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Gumbo
Gumbo (Gum-bo) is a stew that is popular in the U.S. state of Louisiana and is the official state cuisine.
High school football (football au lycée), also known as prep football, is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada.
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
In Living Color
In Living Color is an American sketch comedy television series that originally ran on Fox from April 15, 1990, to May 19, 1994.
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Independent station
An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast network.
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KADN-TV
KADN-TV (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. WGMB-TV and KADN-TV are fox Broadcasting Company affiliates.
KETK-TV
KETK-TV (channel 56) is a television station licensed to Jacksonville, Texas, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for East Texas. WGMB-TV and KETK-TV are Nexstar Media Group.
KLFY-TV
KLFY-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group. WGMB-TV and KLFY-TV are Nexstar Media Group.
KMSS-TV
KMSS-TV (channel 33) is a television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. WGMB-TV and KMSS-TV are fox Broadcasting Company affiliates and Nexstar Media Group.
KPEJ-TV
KPEJ-TV (channel 24) is a television station licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Permian Basin area. WGMB-TV and KPEJ-TV are fox Broadcasting Company affiliates and Nexstar Media Group.
KTAL-TV
KTAL-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Texarkana, Texas, United States, serving the Shreveport, Louisiana, area as an affiliate of NBC. WGMB-TV and KTAL-TV are Cozi TV affiliates and Nexstar Media Group.
KVEO-TV
KVEO-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Brownsville, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as an affiliate of NBC and CBS. WGMB-TV and KVEO-TV are Nexstar Media Group.
KWKT-TV
KWKT-TV (channel 44) is a television station in Waco, Texas, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Central Texas. WGMB-TV and KWKT-TV are fox Broadcasting Company affiliates and Nexstar Media Group.
KZUP-CD
KZUP-CD (channel 20) is a low-power, Class A independent television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. WGMB-TV and KZUP-CD are Nexstar Media Group.
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is the most populous city in and parish seat of Lafayette Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located along the Vermilion River.
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Layoff
A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization.
Local marketing agreement
In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (LMA), or local management agreement, is a contract in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another party.
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LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers
The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers (also known as the Fighting Tigers) are the athletic teams representing Louisiana State University (LSU), a state university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Married... with Children
Married...
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Mission Broadcasting
Mission Broadcasting, Inc. is a television station group that owns 29 full-power television stations in 26 markets in the United States. WGMB-TV and Mission Broadcasting are Nexstar Media Group.
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Multiplex (television)
A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.
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National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a trade association and lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago.
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Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated.
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Prime Time Entertainment Network
The Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN) was an American television network that was operated by the Prime Time Consortium, a joint venture between the Warner Bros.
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Public service announcement
A public service announcement (PSA) is a message in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior.
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Shared services is the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group.
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Short-term Analog Flash and Emergency Readiness Act
The Short-term Analog Flash and Emergency Readiness Act, or SAFER Act, is a U.S. law that required the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow the continuation of full-power analog TV transmissions in 2009 for an additional 30 days for the purpose of broadcasting public service announcements regarding the DTV transition in the United States and emergency information.
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Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Southern Jaguars and Lady Jaguars
The Southern Jaguars and Lady Jaguars represent Southern University in NCAA intercollegiate athletics.
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Television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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The CW
The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as the CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75-percent ownership interest. WGMB-TV and the CW are Nexstar Media Group.
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
Today (American TV program)
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.
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Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States.
Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
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Universal Television
Universal Television LLC (abbreviated as UTV) is an American television production company that is a subsidiary of Universal Studio Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which, in turn, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast.
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Virtual channel
In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's remote control.
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WBRL-CD
WBRL-CD (channel 21) is a low-power, Class A television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW. WGMB-TV and WBRL-CD are Nexstar Media Group.
WNTZ-TV
WNTZ-TV (channel 48) is a television station licensed to Natchez, Mississippi, United States (which is technically part of the Jackson television market), but serving the Alexandria, Louisiana, area as an affiliate of Fox and MyNetworkTV. WGMB-TV and WNTZ-TV are fox Broadcasting Company affiliates and Nexstar Media Group.
WVLA-TV
WVLA-TV (channel 33) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC. WGMB-TV and WVLA-TV are Nexstar Media Group.
1080i
1080i (also known as BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type.
16:9 aspect ratio
16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.
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480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
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720p
720p (720 lines progressive) is a progressive HD signal format with 720 horizontal lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HD (1.78:1).
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See also
1991 establishments in Louisiana
- Acid Bath
- Adai Caddo Indians of Louisiana
- Beau Chene High School
- Delta Southern Railroad
- District 4-5A (LHSAA)
- Down (band)
- First Bank and Trust
- Global Wildlife Center
- Grand Prix du Mardi Gras
- Greer Field at Turchin Stadium
- Id Software
- KEDM
- KMXH
- KQLK
- KXKW-LD
- LSU Indoor Practice Facility
- Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame
- Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
- New Orleans Night
- Pointe Coupee Central High School
- Pontchartrain Center
- Shreveport Open
- The Soul Rebels
- Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality
- WGMB-TV
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGMB-TV
Also known as WGMB.
, Ultra high frequency, Universal Television, Virtual channel, WBRL-CD, WNTZ-TV, WVLA-TV, 1080i, 16:9 aspect ratio, 480i, 720p.