History
The station signed-on on February 17, 1958 as WETV (Educational Television), Georgia's first public television station. At first, it only broadcast during school hours, but gradually added programming for the general public. Originally a member of National Educational Television, it joined PBS on October 5, 1970. The station had the callsign changed to WPBA in 1984. The WETV callsign today is now used by a low-power television station in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, WETV-LP Channel 11.
In 2000, WPBA's digital signal on channel 21 began operation.
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