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WSB-TV's move to channel 2 opened an opportunity for a new station to operate on channel 8. In 1951, a group of Atlanta businessmen, including an executive from the local Davison's department store chain, pooled their capital and launched WLTV as Atlanta's first full-time ABC affiliate. WLTV's studios were installed in a small building directly ...
WAGA-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Briarcliff Road Northeast in the Druid Hills area of unincorporated DeKalb County, just outside the Atlanta city limits.
Atlanta is a major cable television programming center. Ted Turner began the Turner Broadcasting System in Atlanta in 1970 with his takeover of WJRJ-TV, renamed WTCG in 1970 and WTBS in 1979; WTBS became a pioneer "superstation" distributed to cable operators internationally, eventually yielding TBS.
What is known today as WXIA-TV originally signed on the air September 30, 1951, at 5 p.m., as WLTV on VHF channel 8. It was the first full time ABC affiliate for Atlanta, taking it over from WSB-TV and WAGA-TV (channel 5), both originally primary NBC and CBS affiliates respectively that previously shared ABC programming as a secondary affiliation.
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WABE-TV was Georgia's first public television station, signing on as WETV in February 1958, and is the only one that is not part of Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB). It has typically provided a programming mix more reflective of the city of Atlanta than the statewide service from GPB, though duplication between the two has been an issue at ...
WSB-FM 98.5 Atlanta, main and allotment, Cox Radio; WSBB-FM 95.5 Atlanta, main and allotment, Cox Radio; WVEE FM 103.3 Atlanta, main and backup, Entercom; WZGC FM 92.9 Atlanta, backup only, Entercom; New Street, southwest (unpainted) tower: WABE-TV DTV 21 (30.1) Atlanta, digital only, Atlanta Board of Education; WABE FM 90.1 Atlanta, Atlanta ...
This category is for TV stations in and around the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Suffix definitions: "-CA" means Class A "-LP" means Low Power "-TV" means ordinary television FCC licenses with -TV suffix "(TV)" means station FCC licenses without -TV suffix