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  2. History of television in Atlanta - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. WAGA-TV - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Media in Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of television stations in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    "Television Broadcasting", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council "State: Georgia". TV Query Broadcast Station Search. Washington DC: Federal Communications Commission. "Georgia: News and Media: Television". DMOZ. AOL. (Directory ceased in 2016

  6. WXIA-TV - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Fox 5 - Wikipedia

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    Fox 5 is a television station call sign associated with the Fox Broadcasting ... WAGA-TV, Atlanta, GA; WNYW, New York, NY; WTTG "Channel 5", Washington, D.C. Fox ...

  8. 64 years ago today, the 1st MLB game was broadcast in color

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    It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball game was broadcast on television in color. WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.

  9. Television news in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lowell Thomas hosted the first-ever, regularly scheduled news broadcast on American television in March 1940; it was a simulcast of his nightly 6:45 PM NBC network radio newscast, with the television broadcast seen only in New York City over what was then experimental TV station W2XBS. [1] The television simulcast lasted for only a few months.