Out-of-market Coverage
Unlike the co-owned Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV has not abandoned service to outlying counties.
In northwest Georgia, it is carried in the counties covered by the Chattanooga DMA: Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker and Whitfield. WSB is also carried in the far northeast Georgia counties in the Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville DMA in Elbert, Franklin, Hart and Stephens counties.
In central Georgia, WSB-TV is available to Cox Cable subscribers in the Macon area, although ABC programming is usually blacked-out by another local ABC affiliate, WGXA-DT2. Given the long distance to Middle Georgia, it is likely that WSB-TV is uplinked to the AMC-10 TV satellite. WSB is also carried in Vidalia in the Savannah DMA.
In south Georgia (as far south as the Florida border), it is carried on Cox Cable providers due to historically a lack of an ABC affiliate in the Albany media market covering southwest Georgia. Now that ABC programming is carried on 10.2 from WALB, the NBC affiliate in Albany, there are usually blacked-out on syndicated programming. Given the long distance to South Georgia, it is likely that WSB-TV is uplinked to the AMC-10 TV satellite. Douglas in Coffee county also carries WSB for Charter Communications subscribers.
In western North Carolina, it was previously carried in Murphy, Cherokee County. This was alongside WLOS, the ABC affiliate out of Asheville, North Carolina.
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