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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.
Through the Decades, hosted by Bill Kurtis, [15] is a retrospective-type show on the American TV channel Decades. Each day's edition of the show featured events that happened on that date in history. The show debuted in September 2016. [16] After the network rebranded to Catchy Comedy on March 27, 2023, the program was no longer shown.
The news director of Atlanta's then-CBS affiliate saw how talented he was and hired him; he was still full-time at his radio job. Sawyer moved into commercial television with Atlanta's WAGA-TV where he shared a Peabody Award in 1982 for Paradise Saved, a documentary on Cumberland Island.
The New World Communications deal affected WAGA-TV in Atlanta, which switched to Fox after a longtime affiliation with CBS.. FTS gained a bulk of stations through the 1997 purchase of New World Communications, succeeding a 1994 business deal between the two companies which led to all of New World's stations switching from other networks to Fox during 1994–95. [9]
On February 6, 2025, WHTA announced that it would simulcast WAGA-TV's online streaming channel on its second HD Radio channel. The channel features live simulcasts of WAGA-TV's news and sports programming, the talk show Portia, and replays of WAGA's newscasts. [10]
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Local TV stations were free to "cherry-pick" which programs they would broadcast. Many of DuMont's "affiliates" carried very little DuMont programming, choosing to air one or two more popular programs (such as Life Is Worth Living , which was aired by 169 stations during the 1953–1954 season) [ 3 ] and/or sports programming on the weekends.
Ronald Edwin Gant (born March 2, 1965) is an American television news anchor and former professional baseball outfielder.He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1987 and 2003 for eight different teams, primarily the Atlanta Braves (1987–1993), St. Louis Cardinals (1996–1998), and Philadelphia Phillies (1999–2000).