About South Georgia Edition Television

SGE TV covers the business of broadcast journalism and television in Albany, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, as well as the Tallahassee, Florida/Thomasville/Valdosta, Georgia Designated Market Area (or DMA's, as Nielsen Media defines it).

Why call this blog "South Georgia Edition Television"?  For those people who subscribed to TV Guide during its days as a digest-formatted magazine, TV Guide regularly published multiple regional editions throughout the U.S. from its founding in 1953, until 2005, when it discontinued that format to focus more on the TV personalities themselves.

One of those regional editions was the South Georgia Edition, which primarily covered Albany, Columbus, Macon, Tallahassee, and surrounding areas from 1973-2005.  In addition to those four markets, the South Georgia Edition also had program listings for secondary DMA's such as Jacksonville and Panama City, Florida, Dothan, Alabama, and Atlanta.  During the 1980's, listings for the Savannah stations were added.

Of course, there were other regional editions that TV Guide published over the years, from metropolitan area editions such as New York City, Chicago, and Atlanta, to editions that focused on portions of certain states, such as Eastern North Carolina, Northern Florida, or Pennsylvania-New York State, or even a single state like South Carolina.

But by far, the South Georgia Edition likely had the most wide open coverage area of any edition TV Guide had published.  In fact, over the years it was published, the SGE had listings for as many as eight NBC affiliates, seven CBS affiliates, and (maybe) seven ABC affiliates.

SGE TV will cover anything and everything regarding TV in the four markets listed above, as well as the neighboring markets on any occasion.  We might even have a few "blasts from the past" occasionally. Feel free to discuss and comment at http://southgeorgiaeditiontelevision.blogspot.com, or follow on Twitter @southgaedtv.