Movatterモバイル変換


[0]ホーム

URL:


Jump to content
WikipediaThe Free Encyclopedia
Search

WAGA-TV

Coordinates:33°47′51.4″N84°20′1.7″W / 33.797611°N 84.333806°W /33.797611; -84.333806
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Television station in Atlanta
For broadcast stations that previously used the WAGA call sign, seeWAGA (disambiguation).

WAGA-TV
Channels
BrandingFox 5 Atlanta;Fox 5 News
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
March 8, 1949 (1949-03-08)
Former call signs
WAGA (1998–2009)
Former channel number
  • Analog: 5 (VHF, 1949–2009)
  • CBS (1949–1994)
  • DuMont (secondary, 1949–1956)
  • NTA (secondary, 1956–1961)
Call sign meaning
Atlanta, Georgia; derived fromWAGA radio
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID70689
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT332 m (1,089 ft)
Transmitter coordinates33°47′51.4″N84°20′1.7″W / 33.797611°N 84.333806°W /33.797611; -84.333806
RepeatersWHTA-HD2,Hampton (HD Radio simulcast of FoxLocal stream[3])
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.fox5atlanta.com

WAGA-TV (channel 5) is atelevision station inAtlanta, Georgia, United States, serving as the market'sFox network outlet.Owned and operated by the network'sFox Television Stations division, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Briarcliff Road Northeast in theDruid Hills area of unincorporatedDeKalb County, just outside the Atlanta city limits.

History

[edit]

As a CBS affiliate

[edit]

WAGA-TV first began operations on March 8, 1949. The station was originally owned by theToledo, Ohio–based Fort Industry Company, which also operated WAGA radio (AM 590, nowWDWD; and WAGA-FM 103.3, nowWVEE), all colloquially called "Wagga". Fort Industry would later be renamedStorer Broadcasting after the company's founder, George B. Storer. Channel 5 is Atlanta's second-oldest television station, signing on seven months afterWSB-TV (then on channel 8). Originally aCBS affiliate, owing to its radio sister's longtime affiliation with theCBS Radio Network, channel 5 also carried a secondary affiliation with theDuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1956. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with theNTA Film Network.[4] Storer sold the WAGA radio stations in 1959; however, channel 5 has, except from 1998 to 2009, retained the "-TV" suffix.

WAGA-TV was the only VHF commercial station in Atlanta that was on the same channel from its launch. Though both WSB-TV and WLTV—predecessor ofWXIA-TV (channel 11)—initially broadcast over channel 8, theFederal Communications Commission's 1952Sixth Report and Order reallocated the frequency toAthens and reserved the channel fornon-commercial educational use. TheUniversity of Georgia returned channel 8 to the air asWGTV, now the television flagship ofGeorgia Public Broadcasting, in May 1960.

WAGA-TV studios

WAGA-TV originally broadcast from studios andtransmission facilities located at 1018 WestPeachtree Street Northwest. This building would later become home to pioneeringsuperstation and leading Atlantaindependent station WTBS (channel 17, nowWPCH-TV). On June 21, 1966, channel 5 opened its current facilities in Druid Hills.[5][6] The studio resembles anantebellumSouthernmansion, a type ofColonial Revival architecture that was typical for Storer's broadcasting facilities.[7] While this design was somewhat out of place in most of Storer's other markets (which also included Toledo, Detroit,Cleveland andMilwaukee), it was a perfect fit for Atlanta. (The studio facility was used for an on-location shoot for aMatlock episode called "The Reporter".)

WAGA's original transmitter tower waslater the site of a different tower for WPCH-TV's analog channel 17 signal, and a backup forWWWQ (99.7 FM). BecauseStorer Cable became part ofComcast, the tower (owned by competing cable television providerTime Warner, along with WPCH) was to be removed by October 2009, ending theland lease.

In 1985, WAGA-TV and the other Storer stations were sold into a group deal toKohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), a New York-basedprivate equity firm. Two years later in 1987, KKR sold the Storer stations toGillett Communications. Afterbankruptcy, Gillett restructured in 1991, selling several stations and changing its name to SCI Television Inc. On June 26, 1991, Gillett Holdings filed forChapter 11 bankruptcy protection after it failed to reach an agreement with the company's creditors before a court-imposed June 25 deadline. SCI Television also missed repayment of $162 million in bank loans before a June 30 deadline; as a consequence of its financial difficulties, Gillett/SCI decided to sell its broadcast holdings.[8]

On February 17, 1993, one day after SCI purchasedWTVT inTampa from Gillett Holdings in a separate agreement for $163 million,New World Pictures purchased a 51% ownership stake in SCI Television from Gillett for $100 million and $63 million in newly issued debt. The purchase was finalized on May 25, at which point, the film and television production company folded WAGA and its six sister stations—fellow CBS affiliates WTVT,WJW-TV in Cleveland,WJBK-TV in Detroit, andWITI-TV in Milwaukee; NBC affiliateKNSD inSan Diego; and then-independentWSBK-TV inBoston—into a new broadcasting subsidiary,New World Communications. As a result of New World being headquartered in Atlanta, WAGA – which was New World's second-largest station, behind WSBK-TV, at the time the SCI purchase was completed – became the company's flagship television station.[9][10][11]

As a Fox station

[edit]
Main article:1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment

New World Communications ownership

[edit]

On May 23, 1994, as part of a broad deal that also saw News Corporation acquire a 20% equity interest in the company, New World Communications signed a long-term agreement to affiliate its nine CBS-, ABC- or NBC-affiliated television stations with Fox, which sought to strengthen its affiliate portfolio after theNational Football League (NFL) accepted the network's $1.58 billion bid for thetelevision rights to theNational Football Conference (NFC) – a four-year contract that began with the1994 NFL season – on December 18, 1993.[12] WAGA-TV was among the stations involved in the Fox agreement, which also initially included four of New World's other existing CBS-affiliated stations – WITI-TV, WJBK-TV, WJW-TV and WTVT – and four additional stations – CBS affiliateKSAZ-TV inPhoenix, ABC affiliatesWBRC-TV inBirmingham andWGHP inHigh Point, North Carolina, and NBC affiliateWDAF-TV inKansas City, Missouri — that were part of New World's concurrent $360-million acquisition ofGreat American Communications's television properties. (The agreement would subsequently be amended to include four additional stations that New World acquired later that month fromArgyle Television Holdings.)[13][14][15] At the time, Fox's owned-and-operated and affiliate stations were mostly UHF outlets that had limited to no prior history as major network affiliates, among them its existing Atlanta outlet,WATL-TV (channel 36, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate), which the network'sFox Television Stations unit had acquired fromRenaissance Broadcasting (during its acquisition of then-WATL parent Chase Broadcasting) in 1993. Although the network already owned WATL and was in the midst of planning to launch a local news department for channel 36, Fox found the prospect to having its programming carried on a VHF station too much to resist, considering that WAGA had a stronger market position and a long-respected local news operation. (At the time, channel 5 placed second, behind WSB-TV, in total day and news viewership.) As a result, Fox decided to include WAGA in the affiliation agreement with New World and have Fox Television Stations sell WATL.

With only a few months before WAGA was set to switch to Fox, CBS needed to find a new affiliate in what had become the nation's 10th largestmedia market. It approached all of Atlanta's major television stations to potentially reach an agreement. However, none of them were interested at first. CBS first approached WXIA-TV; however, its then-ownerGannett Broadcasting subsequently signed a long-term affiliation deal renewing its contract with WXIA and its sister NBC affiliates inJacksonville,Minneapolis–St. Paul andPhoenix. WSB-TV was later eliminated as an option as its Atlanta-based owner,Cox Enterprises, would reach a new long-term agreement with ABC to retain its affiliation with that network.[16][17] WATL was eventually eliminated as Qwest Broadcasting (a joint venture between music producerQuincy Jones, former NFL defensive endWillie Davis, television producerDon Cornelius, television hostGeraldo Rivera, and Tribune) announced in November that it would purchase WATL from Fox Television Stations as part of a two station, $167-million deal.[18]

By September 1994, with only a little more than two months left before channel 5 was slated to join Fox, CBS faced the prospect of having to pipe inWRBL inColumbus,WMAZ-TV inMacon,WSPA-TV inSpartanburg, South Carolina, andWDEF-TV inChattanooga, Tennessee, for Atlanta-area cable customers until it found a new affiliate in the market. Almost out of desperation, on September 26, CBS made a deal to buy independent station WVEU (channel 69, nowWUPA) for $46 million.[19][20] However, this was only a contingency, since WVEU's signal at the time barely made it outside of Atlanta itself and its closest-in suburbs, and it barely registered as a blip in the ratings. Even after it agreed to buy WVEU, CBS still sought to move its programming to a higher-profile station. It continued to negotiate with Tribune Broadcasting to reach a deal to affiliate with longtime independent station WGNX (channel 46, nowWANF), which initially turned down CBS' offer to affiliate with the station; WGNX was especially attractive for the network since channel 46 was the only non-Big Three station in the Atlanta market that had a functioning news department. That November, Tribune relented and signed a deal with CBS to convert WGNX into the network's new Atlanta affiliate.[21] As a consequence of the WGNX deal, CBS reached an agreement to sell WVEU toViacom in a three-way deal that saw Viacom sell CBS affiliateKSLA inShreveport, Louisiana, to Ellis Communications (owned by Atlanta-based businessman Bert Ellis) to comply with FCC ownership rules in coincidence with Viacom's divestitures of its major network-affiliated television stations to focus on its UPN charter outlets.[22][23][24][25] The last CBS network program to air on WAGA was a first-run episode ofWalker, Texas Ranger at 10 p.m.Eastern Time on December 10; this led into a message by then-station president and general manager Jack Sander shortly before the start of that evening's edition ofChannel 5 Eyewitness News at 11:00 (which was relaunched as an hour-long prime time newscast at 10 p.m. two days later), informing viewers about the pending network changes.

WAGA-TV officially became a Fox affiliate on December 11, 1994, when the network's programming lineup moved to the station from WATL; the first Fox network program to air on the station as a full-time affiliate wasFox NFL Sunday at noon Eastern Time that day, leading into that afternoon's NFL doubleheader: an early game between theTampa Bay Buccaneers and theLos Angeles Rams and a mid-afternoon game between theSan Francisco 49ers and theSan Diego Chargers. (The affiliation switch involving WAGA, WGNX and WATL was originally slated to occur on November 27, but was delayed two weeks to allow Fox, New World and CBS to iron out the final details.)[26][27] Prior to the end of its 45-year affiliation with CBS, WAGA had been the network's longest-tenured affiliate south ofWashington, D.C. (a title now held byCharlotte affiliateWBTV, which has carried CBS programming since it signed on the air on July 15, 1949, four months after WAGA); it was also the only station in Atlanta that did not change its primary affiliation. As a result, Atlanta became one of the few TV markets in the United States where all "Big Three" stations changed affiliations, having been affected by an earlier switch in 1980, when WSB became an ABC affiliate, and WXIA switched to NBC. WGNX concurrently took over the CBS affiliation, which necessitated the shift of a large number of the syndicatedcartoons, drama series and sitcoms in its inventory over to WVEU – which had become aUPN affiliate when that network launched on January 16, 1995 – as channel 46 could not continue to accommodate many of these shows due to CBS's network-dominated programming lineup; as a result, WGNX became the only Atlanta television station that did not retain its entire existing syndicated programming lineup following the switch. WATL – whose sale to Qwest Broadcasting (which, in 2000, merged with WB network part-owner, theTribune Company), would not be finalized until December 1995 – temporarily operated as an independent station during its transition into an affiliate of upstart networkThe WB upon that network's launch the following month on January 11, 1995. (WATL is now owned byTegna as part of aduopoly with WXIA).[28]

As with most of the other New World-owned stations affected by the affiliation agreement with Fox, WAGA-TV made little mention of the Fox logo and name in its on-air imaging at the outset. Instead, it retained the "Channel 5" branding it had used since 1991 (modified slightly from the "TV5" branding it had used for most of the 1980s). It also retained theEyewitness News moniker it had used for its newscasts since July 1981. In addition to expanding its local news offerings at the time it joined Fox, the station replaced CBS daytime and late night programs that migrated to WGNX with an expanded slate of syndicated talk shows as well as some off-network sitcoms, game shows and documentary-basedreality series, and also acquired some syndicatedfilm packages and first-run and off-network syndicated drama series for broadcast in weekend afternoon timeslots on weeks when Fox did not provide sports programming; however, the revamped programming schedule – as was the case with most of New World's other Fox stations – relegated children's programs to weekend mornings only.

With the switch from WAGA to WGNX, CBS lost significant viewership in the northern portion of the Atlanta market. Despite its five million-watt analog signal, WGNX did not penetrate nearly as far into this area as WAGA did because of the relatively mountainous terrain that is found in that part of northern Georgia. At the time, much of this region was among the few areas in the United States where cable was still not readily available. CBS did not return over-the-air to this area untilToccoa's WNEG-TV (channel 32, nowWGTA) joined CBS the following August. Although it was located in theGreenville–Spartanburg–Asheville market, WNEG served as thede facto CBS affiliate for the far northern portion of the Atlanta market as well as the Greenville–Spartanburg–Asheville market's western fringes until that station's sale to the University of Georgia in 2008. (WGNX's availability in this area increased through expanded cable and satellite distribution in subsequent years.) WGNX, which changed its call letters to WANF in 2022, would eventually lose its CBS affiliation on August 16, 2025, with the network moving to WUPA.

Fox Television Stations ownership

[edit]

On July 17, 1996, News Corporation—which separated most of its entertainment holdings into21st Century Fox in July 2013—announced that it would acquire New World in an all-stock transaction worth $2.48 billion. The purchase by News Corporation was finalized on January 22, 1997, folding New World's ten Fox affiliates into the former's Fox Television Stations subsidiary and making all twelve stations affected by the 1994 agreement owned-and-operated stations of the network. (The New World Communications name continues in use as a licensing purpose corporation—as "New World Communications of [state/city], Inc." or "NW Communications of [state/city], Inc."—for WAGA and itssister stations under Fox ownership, extending, from 2009 to 2011, to the former New World stations that Fox sold toLocal TV in 2007.)[29][30][31]

At that time, Channel 5 became the third English language network-owned commercial station in the Atlanta market (Viacom, then-owner of UPN's Atlanta station WUPA, had acquired part-ownership of that network in 1996). It was also one of two stations that switched to Fox under the New World agreement that replaced an existing Fox O&O, only to later be sold to the network itself (inDallasFort Worth, sister stationKDFW-TV had replacedKDAF as that market's Fox station in July 1995), making Atlanta one of a handful of markets more than one station has served as an O&O of the same network. In November 1996, two months before the completion of the Fox–New World merger and at a time when other network-owned stations around the United States began adopting similar network-driven branding, WAGA-TV shortened its branding to simply "Fox 5 Atlanta" per the network's branding guidelines (with its newscasts concurrently rebranding asFox 5 Eyewitness News, later shortened toFox 5 News in August 1998).

On December 14, 2017,The Walt Disney Company, owner of WSB-TV's affiliated network ABC, announced its intent to buy WAGA-TV's parent company, 21st Century Fox, for $52.4 billion; the sale excluded the Fox Television Stations unit (including WAGA-TV), the Fox network,Fox News,Fox Sports 1 and the MyNetworkTV programming service, which were transferred to aseparate company, Fox Corporation.[32][33]

Programming

[edit]

Since it joined the network in December 1994, WAGA has only aired Fox's prime time, Saturday late night andsports programming, as well as special reports produced byFox News. As with most of its sister stations under its former New World ownership (with the subverted exception of former sister station KTVI in St. Louis, which assumed rights to the network's children's programs in 1996 and carried the blocks until Fox stopped providing them within its schedule), Channel 5 declined carriage of the children's programming blocks that Fox carried prior to 2008, only having aired fall preview specials and network promotions for those blocks that aired within Fox's prime time lineup during that twelve-year period.

WAGA opted not to run theFox Kids weekday and Saturday blocks when it affiliated with the network, due to the station's interest in airing syndicated shows more compatible with its expanded local news schedule on weekdays, opting only to air children's programs acquired via syndication on weekend mornings (the preemptions of Fox Kids by the New World stations led the network to change its carriage policies to allow Fox stations uninterested in carrying the block theright of first refusal to transfer the local rights to another station; by 2001, affiliates were no longer required to run the Fox Kids lineup even if Fox had not secured a substitute carrier). Fox Kids remained on WATL after it became a WB affiliate in January 1995, before moving to WHOT (channel 34, nowWUVG-DT) in September 2000; its successor,FoxBox/4Kids TV, moved to WUPA in January 2002 (coinciding with WHOT's conversion into aUnivision O&O), where it aired until the block was cancelled in December 2008. (Thepaid programming block that replaced it in January 2009,Weekend Marketplace, currently airs onMyNetworkTV affiliateWATL.[34]) On September 13, 2014, WAGA-TV began carryingXploration Station, a live-action educational program block distributed bySteve Rotfeld Productions that is syndicated primarily to Fox stations (including those owned by Fox Television Stations) on Saturday mornings.[35][36]

Sports programming

[edit]

WAGA began serving as the primary television station for theAtlanta Falcons upon the team's inception in1966, under CBS'scontractual television rights to the pre-AFL merger National Football League. The station carried most regional or national Falcons game telecasts aired by CBS until its contractual rights to the National Football Conference concluded in1993. However, the station's December 1994 switch to Fox allowed WAGA to retain its status as the Falcons' unofficial "home" station. For the1994 season, most of the team's first fourteen games that year were aired instead on lame-duck Fox O&O WATL; with that, the 3½-month interruption in game coverage that year, due to the transfer of NFC telecast rights from CBS to Fox, is the only break in network coverage of the team by the station to date since 1966. Since the switch to Fox, both of the Falcons'Super Bowl appearances—XXXIII andLI—have been carried on the station, as both were Super Bowls to which Fox had the national television rights.

Since Fox obtained the partial (now exclusive) over-the-airnetwork television rights toMajor League Baseball in 1996, WAGA has also carried certainAtlanta Braves games that have been regionally or nationally televised by the network during the league's regular season andpostseason, including their appearance in the1996 World Series and their victory in the2021 World Series, which gave the city its first major sports championship since1995. WTBS/WPCH retained the local over-the-air television rights to the Braves until2011.

During WAGA's run as a CBS station, it aired selectAtlanta Hawks games as part ofCBS' NBA coverage from 1973 to 1990, and then the Atlanta Braves from 1990 to 1993 withCBS' MLB broadcast contract (including the team's1991 and1992 World Series appearances).

News operation

[edit]

WAGA-TV presently broadcasts 78 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 13 hours each weekday and6+12 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it was previously the highest newscast output among Georgia's broadcast television stations, until WANF's news expansions in August 2025.

For most of its first three decades on the air, WAGA-TV was Atlanta's second-highest rated station. From the 1970s to early 2009, it had to fend off a spirited challenge from WXIA-TV, with the two stations regularly trading the number-two position in the market behind longtime leader WSB-TV. However, WXIA has never recovered from a ratings slump in 2009, and WAGA-TV has been the solid runner-up in the market since then.

WAGA's Saturday and Sunday 6 p.m. newscasts are subject todelay due to network sports coverage. WAGA also provided news reports and weather forecasts fornews radio stationWYAY (106.7 FM), through a partnership between WAGA and WYAY's ownerCumulus Media struck in May 2012.

For many years as a CBS affiliate, the station called its newscasts5 News Scene. In the 1980s, this changed toEyewitness News. In 1992, WAGA droppedCBS This Morning through 1994 in favor of a three-hour locally producedmorning news program calledGood Day Atlanta.[37]

With the 1994 affiliation switch to Fox, WAGA poured more resources into its already well-respected news department. It adopted a news-intensive schedule, increasing its news programming output to nearly 40 hours a week. The station retained a news schedule similar to what it had as a CBS affiliate. However, it expanded the weeknight 6 p.m. newscasts to two hours and moved the 11 p.m. newscast to 10 p.m. and expanded it to a full hour. On January 14, 2008, WAGA debuted a new 11 p.m. newscast calledFox 5 News Edge, returning a newscast to that timeslot since the station was still affiliated with CBS.[38] On March 16, 2009, WAGA became the last major network station in the market (behind WGCL-TV, WSB and WXIA) to begin broadcasting its locally produced newscasts inhigh-definition.

On September 14, 2009, WAGA expanded its weekday morning newscast to five hours from 5 to 10 a.m. along with the addition of an hour-long 9 a.m. extension of the program calledGood Day Xtra.[39] On April 1, 2010, WAGA expanded its morning news by an extra half-hour, with the start time moved a half-hour earlier to 4:30 a.m., becoming the first Atlanta station to expand its morning newscast into that slot; the extension was made to attract those who wake up go to work earlier than most; the additional half-hour competes against national early morning newscasts airing on WXIA, WGCL and WSB.[40] As of September 2010, WAGA dropped theFox 5 Morning News andGood Day Xtra titles, in favor of using theGood Day Atlanta branding throughout the morning newscast. On September 14, 2015, the station extended its 11 p.m. newscast to one hour with the addition of a half-hourNews Edge at 11:30; this made WAGA among the very few stations to extend its late newscast to midnight, and one of three Fox affiliates (Kansas City's WDAF-TV and Washington, D.C.'sWTTG being the others) to air a two-hour late local news block. On April 15, 2019, WAGA expandedGood Day Atlanta by one hour from 10 a.m. to 11 am. On February 14, 2020, WAGA added a half-hour program titledRoad to November on Fridays at 7 p.m. On March 30, 2020, WAGA added an additional half-hour of weekday news from 4:30 p.m to 5 p.m, it later expanded to a full hour on November 16, running evening newscasts from 4 p.m to 7 p.m.

In 2018,$2 Tests: Bad Arrests aired, which then went on to win aPeabody Award,[41] presented at the 2019 awards ceremony.

On February 6, 2025, WAGA-TV andRadio One announced that the secondHD Radio channel ofWHTA (107.9 FM) would carry the audio of WAGA-TV's online streaming channel FoxLocal Atlanta, including simulcasts and replays of the station's news and sports programming and the talk showPortia.[42]

Notable former on-air staff

[edit]

Technical information

[edit]

Subchannels

[edit]

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of WAGA-TV[43]
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
5.1720p16:9WAGA-HDFox
5.2480iMOVIES!Movies! (WGTA)
5.34:3BUZZRBuzzr
5.416:9ROARRoar[44]
5.5CATCHYCatchy Comedy (WGTA)[45]
5.6FOX WXFox Weather
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Channel 5.2 originally was for the benefit of smaller cable providers which were taking thefullscreen SD signal straight from the air, and did not want problems due to thewidescreen orscan conversion on 5.1; this lasted until the end of April 2009. The channel then stayed blank with noelectronic program guide data for several weeks until late June, when it again had identical programming, but this time in widescreen. The 704×480ianamorphic format is unusual, as moststandard definition digital channels use a fullscreen 640×480i format (by comparison, widescreenNTSC DVDs use 720×480p). Channel 5.2 again went blank in late July, but continued to have the same program data as 5.1, until it was deleted entirely on December 3.

Fox Television Stations andRadio One announced on February 5, 2025 that the audio of WAGA-TV's local newscasts and other local programming will be now simulcast on the secondHD Radio channel ofWHTA (107.9) for the benefit of Atlanta metro commuters. Programming replays from the station's Fox Local stream will be played during network and syndicated programming and overnights.[3]

Analog-to-digital conversion

[edit]

WAGA shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[46] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transitionUHF channel 27,[47] usingvirtual channel 5. The station's first chiefbroadcast engineer from 1949, Paul B. Cram, who was aged 99 at the time, was given the duty of permanently turning off the analog transmitter live on the air at 12:30 p.m. on June 12. WSB-TV, WXIA-TV, and WATL also went off the air at the same time, with WSB and WXIA also live in their transmitter rooms like WAGA.

Out-of-market cable carriage

[edit]
icon
This sectionneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.(December 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

WAGA is carried in parts ofCherokee andMacon counties ofwesternNorth Carolina, both bordering Georgia. Cherokee is part of the Chattanooga media market ofSoutheast Tennessee andnorthwest Georgia, while Macon is part of the Asheville–Greenville–Spartanburg DMA of the western Carolinas andnortheast Georgia. Although outside of themust-carry obligations that apply within the Atlanta DMA, both counties are popular with visitors andsummer-home residents from the Atlanta area. WSB-TV is also carried in those counties.

In the 1970s and 1980s, WAGA once had cable carriage inAiken andClemson in west-central andupstate (northwestern) South Carolina.[48][citation needed] WAGA also had significant carriage on Storer and Liberty cable systems (later TCI, nowMediacom) in South Georgia during that same timeframe.

References

[edit]
  1. ^"Digital TV Market Listing for WAGA".RabbitEars.Info. RetrievedJanuary 26, 2017.
  2. ^"Facility Technical Data for WAGA-TV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^abVenta, Lance (February 6, 2025)."WHTA-HD2 To Simulcast WAGA-TV Local Content".Radio Insight. RetrievedFebruary 7, 2025.
  4. ^"Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films",Boxoffice: 13, November 10, 1956, archived fromthe original on June 14, 2009, retrievedFebruary 18, 2020
  5. ^Jones, Paul (June 21, 1966)."WAGA-TV dedicating new home on Briarcliff".The Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, GA. RetrievedMay 4, 2019.(subscription required)
  6. ^"WAGA-TV Dedication".Special presentation. Atlanta, GA. June 21, 1966. 00:13 minutes in. WAGA-TV.Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. RetrievedMarch 19, 2017.
  7. ^Carrollton, Betty (June 21, 1966)."New $1 million home of WAGA-TV borrows motif from Old Williamsburg".The Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, GA. RetrievedMay 4, 2019.(subscription required)
  8. ^"SCI Television Has Trouble with Loan Payment"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. July 1, 1991. p. 25. RetrievedJanuary 18, 2019 – via World Radio History.
  9. ^Fabrikant, Geraldine (February 18, 1993)."THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Perelman Agrees to Acquire Control of SCI Television".The New York Times. RetrievedDecember 23, 2015.
  10. ^"Entertainment: Tampa TV Station Sold".Los Angeles Times. February 17, 1993. RetrievedSeptember 18, 2017.
  11. ^"SCI Television and New World Entertainment. (to be merged into New World Group)".Mediaweek. November 29, 1993. Archived fromthe original on December 27, 2015. RetrievedSeptember 18, 2017.
  12. ^"CBS, NBC Battle for AFC Rights // Fox Steals NFC Package".Chicago Sun-Times. Adler & Shaykin. December 18, 1993. Archived fromthe original on November 5, 2012.
  13. ^"COMPANY NEWS; GREAT AMERICAN SELLING FOUR TELEVISION STATIONS".The New York Times. May 6, 1994. RetrievedMarch 4, 2016.
  14. ^Foisie, Geoffrey (May 3, 1993)."Times Mirror sells stations, part 1. (Times Mirror Co. to sell four stations to Argyle Communications Inc.)".Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. Archived fromthe original on January 9, 2016. RetrievedMarch 4, 2016.
  15. ^Foisie, Geoffrey (May 30, 1994)."Argyle socks away profit. (New World Communications Group Inc. acquires Argyle Television Holdings)".Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. Archived fromthe original on January 9, 2016. RetrievedMarch 4, 2016.
  16. ^"GE puts its money where NBC's signal is"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. December 5, 1994. p. 50. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  17. ^Zier, Julie A. (December 5, 1994)."Fog of war engulfs affiliation battles"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. p. 50. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  18. ^Jones, Tim; Dorning, Mike (November 17, 1994)."Deal Boosts Minority TV Presence".Chicago Tribune.Tribune Publishing. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018.
  19. ^McClellan, Steve; Zier, Julie A. (September 26, 1994)."CBS buys UHFs in Atlanta, Detroit"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. p. 7. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  20. ^Carter, Bill (September 24, 1994)."CBS Buys 2 UHF Stations To Serve Atlanta and Detroit".The New York Times. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018.
  21. ^McClellan, Steve (November 21, 1994)."CBS signs WGNX Atlanta"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. p. 8. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  22. ^"Viacom Sells Station And Buys Another".The New York Times.Associated Press. May 12, 1995. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018.
  23. ^Zier, Julie A. (May 15, 1995)."Viacom takes WVEU off CBS's hands"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. p. 49. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  24. ^"Changing Hands"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. May 22, 1995. p. 48. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  25. ^Rathbun, Elizabeth (July 17, 1995)."Viacom swaps Shreveport VHF for Atlanta UHF"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. p. 46. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  26. ^"WAGA-TV The Big Switch" – via YouTube.
  27. ^"WAGA-TV, Channel 5 to Start Fox Programming on Sunday, December 11" (Press release). WAGA-TV/New World Communications.PR Newswire. October 20, 1994. Archived fromthe original on July 5, 2017.
  28. ^McConnell, Chris (December 18, 1995)."FCC OKs Qwest buys in New Orleans, Atlanta"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. p. 69. RetrievedOctober 22, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  29. ^Rathbun, Elizabeth A.; Littleton, Cynthia (July 22, 1996)."Murdoch claims New World"(PDF).Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. p. 6. RetrievedJuly 27, 2018 – via World Radio History.
  30. ^Lowry, Brian (July 18, 1996)."New World Vision : Murdoch's News Corp. to Buy Broadcast Group".Los Angeles Times. RetrievedJune 22, 2012.
  31. ^"The Media Business;Murdoch's News Corp. Buying New World".The New York Times.Reuters. July 18, 1996. RetrievedOctober 9, 2015.
  32. ^"Disney Buys Big Chunk Of Fox In $66.1B Deal".TVNewsCheck. December 14, 2017. RetrievedDecember 15, 2017.
  33. ^"Murdoch: New Fox Interested In More Stations".TVNewsCheck. December 14, 2017. RetrievedDecember 14, 2017.
  34. ^Schenider, Michael (November 23, 2008)."Longform ads replace kid fare on Fox".Variety. RetrievedSeptember 24, 2015.
  35. ^"06/18/14: Fox to launch STEM-focused kids block; Jim Davis Q&A; return of The Powerpuff Girls; Saban launches Emojiville brand".Cynopsis Kids. Cynopsis Media. June 18, 2014. RetrievedJune 19, 2014.
  36. ^"Steve Rotfield Clears New Science and Technology Two Hour E/I Block With FOX Station Group".TV by the Numbers (Press release).Tribune Digital Ventures. December 18, 2013. Archived fromthe original on December 22, 2013. RetrievedJune 19, 2014.
  37. ^Carter, Bill. "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; CBS's Ruptured Ties To Affiliates.The New York Times September 14, 1992: 1.
  38. ^WAGA Atlanta Launching 11 p.m. News,Broadcasting & Cable, November 28, 2007.
  39. ^"Good Day Extra Debuts on WAGA-TV Today".ajc.com. RetrievedJanuary 26, 2024.
  40. ^WAGA-TV Fox 5 starts news at 4:30 a.m.,Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 5, 2010.
  41. ^"The Best Stories of 2018". June 24, 2019. RetrievedFebruary 28, 2020.
  42. ^Venta, Lance (February 6, 2025)."WHTA-HD2 To Simulcast WAGA-TV Local Content".RadioInsight. RetrievedFebruary 6, 2025.
  43. ^"RabbitEars TV Query for WAGA".RabbitEars.info. RetrievedDecember 13, 2024.
  44. ^Miller, Mark K. (December 17, 2024)."Sinclair Expands Broadcast Footprint Of TBD TV With 5 Top 10 Fox O&Os".TV News Check (viaMSN). RetrievedDecember 19, 2024.
  45. ^"Fox Television Stations To Carry Weigel Broadcasting's Decades TV Network Beginning in Q3".Deadline Hollywood. July 10, 2019. RetrievedJuly 11, 2019.
  46. ^"List of Digital Full-Power Stations"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on August 29, 2013.
  47. ^"CDBS Print".licensing.fcc.gov.
  48. ^"Search Cable".fjallfoss.fcc.gov. RetrievedJanuary 26, 2024.

External links

[edit]
Full power
Low-power
Defunct
  • WROM-TV 9
    • Rome, now WTVC/Chattanooga
Broadcast television stations by affiliation in the U.S. state ofGeorgia
Includes stations in out-of-state TV markets, but reaching a portion of Georgia
ABC
CBS
Fox
NBC
The CW
Ion Television
Independent
PBS
GPB
WGTV
WABW-TV
WACS-TV
WCES-TV
WJSP-TV
WMUM-TV
WNGH-TV
WVAN-TV
WXGA-TV
Religious
Spanish
Telemundo
WGAT-LD
WKTB-CD .2
WKSY-LD
WTFL-LD
WFXU (15)
WTMH-LD
WTVL-CD
Univision and UniMás
WUVG-DT
Other
ATSC 3.0
  • 1 Also has secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV.
See also
Alabama TV
Florida TV (English/Spanish)
North Carolina TV
South Carolina TV
Tennessee TV
Broadcast television stations by affiliation in the state ofAlabama
Includes stations in out-of-state TV markets, but reaching a portion of Alabama
ABC
CBS
Fox
NBC
The CW
Ion Television
Independent
PBS
APT
WAIQ
WBIQ
WCIQ
WDIQ
WEIQ
WFIQ
WGIQ
WHIQ
WIIQ
Religious
Other
Antenna TV
WLTZ .31
Catchy Comedy
WIYC .21
Cozi TV
WIYC
WVUA-CD (WVUA)
Heroes & Icons
WSES (WGWW)
MeTV
WTVY .21
Roar
WPMI-TV
Univision and UniMás
WUVG-DT
ATSC 3.0
  • 1 Also has secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV.
See also
Florida TV (English/Spanish)
Georgia TV
Mississippi TV
Tennessee TV
Sister company:News Corp
Corporate directors
Programming
List of affiliates
Defunct or cancelled
See also
Foxprogramming (current and upcoming)
Primetime
News
Sports
Upcoming
Units
Stations
Defunct/related
See also
Fox News Media
Linear TV channels
Radio services
Online
Weekday
Weekend
Special
Former
Current
Former
Linear TV channels
Radio network
Digital Media
Sports league
Defunct or sold
Other assets
ABC
CBS
Fox
NBC
Telemundo
The CW
Univision
International
National
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WAGA-TV&oldid=1336322792"
Categories:
Hidden categories:

[8]ページ先頭

©2009-2026 Movatter.jp