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WGFL
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	High Springs / Gainesville, Florida
Branding	CBS 4; My 11 (on DT2)
Channel	Digital: 28 (UHF, PSIP 53);
Subchannels	53.1 CBS; 53.2 MyNetworkTV
Owner	New Age Media, LLC; (New Age Media of Gainesville License, LLC)
First air date	1997
Callsign meaning	Gainesville, FLorida
Sister station(s)	WNBW; WMYG-LP
Former channels	53 (UHF analog, 1997-2008)
Former affiliations	The WB (on main channel 1997-2002, on DT2 2002-2006); UPN (secondary, 1997-2004)
Effective power	168 kW
Height	265 m
Facility ID	7727
Antenna coordinates	29°37′47.7″N 82°34′24″W / 29.629917°N 82.57333°W
Website	mygainesville.tv

WGFL is the CBS-affiliated television station for Gainesville, Florida that is licensed to High Springs. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 28 from a transmitter southeast of Newberry. The station can also be seen on Cox channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 728. Owned by New Age Media, the station is sister to NBC affiliate WNBW and low-powered MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYG-LP. The three stations share studios on Northwest 80th Boulevard in the Buckingham West section of Gainesville along I-75. Syndicated programming on WGFL includes: Jeopardy!, Wheel Of Fortune, Ellen, and Dr. Phil. The Gainesville market is located between several other Florida DMAs. In these areas, local cable systems opt instead for the affiliate for their market instead of WGFL. This includes Cox in Ocala, which is part of the Orlando market, that offers WKMG-TV instead. In Lake City, part of the Jacksonville DMA, Time Warner Cable offers WTEV.

[edit] History

WGFL began broadcasting as a primary WB and secondary UPN affiliate in 1997. In 2002, Jacksonville's longtime CBS affiliate, WJXT, became an independent station. It had been the default CBS affiliate for Gainesville (and much of north Florida) for many years. WGFL quickly signed on with CBS to keep the network available in Gainesville. It also changed its on-air moniker from "WB 53" to "CBS 4" (named after its cable channel number). Also in 2002, the station began broadcasting its digital signal on UHF channel 28. There was a second digital subchannel established to continue WGFL's primary WB and secondary UPN affiliation. This was known on-air as "WB 10" after its cable channel location. In 2004, secondary affiliation with UPN was dropped. On September 5, 2006, WMYG (which had been serving as a repeater of WGFL) became affiliated with MyNetworkTV. WGFL-DT2 then began simulcasting that station. On July 18, 2008, the station closed down its analog signal. It was one of very few big three affiliates permitted by the FCC to cease analog transmission prior to the national digital switchover on June 12, 2009. The transmitter facility space formerly occupied by WGFL's analog signal on UHF channel 53 is now used for sister station WNBW.

[edit] Newscasts

Until December 31, 2006, WGFL offered a simulcast of WTEV's nightly 11 o'clock newscast. That was eventually dropped and the station began to air a nationally syndicated 11 o'clock news on weeknights produced by the Independent News Network in Davenport, Iowa. In a report in the Macon, Georgia Telegraph, it was announced that Independent News Network filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy on December 31, 2008 and was to end all news productions, including its national newscast, by January 9, 2009. However, newscasts on WGFL were quickly resumed, following INN's acquisition by LMG, Inc. The broadcast originates from INN's studios in Davenport, Iowa.

In order to give WNBW its NBC affiliation, New Age Media pledged to start a local news department of its own by the end of 2009. It must do so or that station may be stripped of NBC.^{[citation needed]}