WGUN-TV

WGUN-TV is a commercial-free UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming, on channel 45. It is located in Lynchburg, Virginia. It was originally launched, as a pirate television station in the 1970's which it's first broadcast consisted of a water pistol with "WGUN 45 TV" in cut out letters mounted on a phonograph turntable with audio from "an unmercifully scratchy Baja Marimba Band album". The station was located by radio station technicians after being informed by the mother of a young viewer who found the station while tuning the UHF TV band. When asked, the young unnamed pirate stated he purchased the transmitter, an EMC Model TXRU-100 UHF transmitter, at a rummage sale from a church that had intended to start a UHF-TV station. Upon being informed that his broadcasts were illegal, the station was shut down. The transmitter was reportedly re-sold at a yard sale. Later, in 1980, the channel was relaunched as a licensed station by the same radio station technicians who located the station as a RKO Network affiliate.

In the 1990's, the owners switched the station from being a RKO Network affiliate to a Independent station that specialized in sensationalistic programming. It had (and still has) a cartoon block called "Cartoon Carnival" with Inspector Gadget, Darkwing Duck, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Dingy and Friends, Greeny Phatom, and more.

The owners, still owning the station, have it listed as a community television station, but it's current transmitter it's older than the genre.