Fox 5 Atlanta
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Atlanta, Georgia United States |
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| Branding | Fox 5 Atlanta (general) Fox 5 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Dedicated, Determined, Dependable The Most Powerful Name in Local News (news) We Are Fox 5 (general) |
| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 5 () |
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| Owner |
Fox Television Stations (New World Communications of Atlanta, Inc.) |
| First air date | March 8, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Atlanta, GeorgiA derived from former sister station WAGA radio (now WDWD) |
| Sister station(s) |
Fox Sports South Fox Sports Southeast |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 332 m (1,089 ft) |
| Facility ID | 70689 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°47′51″N 84°20′2″W / 33.79750°N 84.33389°WCoordinates: 33°47′51″N 84°20′2″W / 33.79750°N 84.33389°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WAGA-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 27), is a Fox owned-and-operated television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, WAGA-TV maintains studio and transmitter facilities located on Briarcliff Road in unincorporated DeKalb County, just outside the Atlanta city limits (but with an Atlanta mailing address). On cable, the station is available in standard definition on Comcast Xfinity channel 4 and Charter Spectrum channel 5, and in high definition on Xfinity channel 804 and Spectrum channel 705.
WAGA-TV first began operations on March 8, 1949. The station was originally owned by Toledo, Ohio-based Fort Industry Company, which also operated WAGA radio (AM 590, now WDWD; and WAGA-FM 102.9, now WVEE at 103.3), all colloquially called "Wagga". Fort Industry would later be renamed Storer Broadcasting after the company's founder, George B. Storer. Channel 5 is Atlanta's second-oldest television station, signing on seven months after WSB-TV (then on channel 8). Originally a CBS affiliate, channel 5 also carried a secondary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1956. It also shared the ABC affiliation with WSB-TV (which moved to channel 2 in 1950) until WLTV (a then-new channel 8 station) signed on in September 1951. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. Storer sold the WAGA radio stations in 1959; however, channel 5 retained the "-TV" suffix before dropping it in 1998, only to pick it up again in 2009.
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