11 Facts About WGFL

WGFL is a television station licensed to High Springs, Florida, United States, serving the Gainesville area as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV.

The stations share studios on Northwest 80th Boulevard in Gainesville; WGFL's transmitter is located on Southwest 30th Avenue near Newberry.

WGFL was used to provide full-market over-the-air high definition digital coverage of co-owned low-power analog MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYG-LP .

WGFL signed on September 20,1997, offering an analog signal on UHF channel 53.

In May 2002, WGFL announced its intention to affiliate with the CBS network on July 15,2002; this came about as an affiliation switch arose involving then-CBS affiliate WJXT and then-UPN affiliate WTEV in Jacksonville, which led WJXT to drop CBS programming and become an independent.

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WGFL aired the Florida Gators men's basketball team's victories in the 2006 and 2007 NCAA national championship games.

In 2004, the station was sold to Pegasus Communications due an earlier time brokerage agreement with then-owner Budd Broadcasting A short time later, WGFL would become part of New Age Media after Pegasus filed for bankruptcy in 2005.

In 2002, WGFL aired a weekly sports-oriented show on Friday evenings called Sports Showdown.

On October 27,2010, WGFL launched a local newscast produced by INN under the branding GTN News .

WGFL discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 53, on July 18,2008.

WGFL formerly operated two analog translator stations, which rebroadcast its signal to other parts of the broadcast market:.