Macon, Georgia United States |
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Branding |
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Slogan | News That Works For You |
Channels |
Digital: 16 (UHF) Virtual: 24 () |
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Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WGXA Licensee, LLC) |
First air date | April 21, 1982 |
Call letters' meaning | uses G and A from Georgia's postal abbreviation along with X from Fox |
Former channel number(s) | 24 (UHF analog, 1982–2009) |
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Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
Height | 216 m |
Facility ID | 58262 |
Transmitter coordinates | 32°44′58.4″N 83°33′34.5″W / 32.749556°N 83.559583°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | wgxa |
WGXA, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 16), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Macon, Georgia, United States. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. WGXA maintains studio facilities located on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (GA 11/GA 22/GA 49/U.S. 80/U.S. 129) in Downtown Macon, and its transmitter is located on GA 87/U.S. 23/U.S. 129 Alternate (Golden Isles Highway), along the Twiggs-Bibb County line. On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 2 and in high definition on digital channel 702.
The station first signed on the air on April 21, 1982 as an ABC affiliate. WGXA was the third television station to be affiliated with a major network to sign on in Middle Georgia, after CBS affiliate WMAZ-TV (channel 13, which signed on in September 1953) and NBC affiliate WCWB-TV (channel 41, now WMGT-TV; which signed on in September 1968). Prior to its start, ABC programming was only available to area residents either during the off-CBS hours (via tape delay) on WMAZ or on affiliates from nearby markets such as Atlanta (WXIA-TV until 1980, and then on WSB-TV thereafter) or Columbus (WTVM). This made Macon one of the last markets in the country to receive full-time affiliates of the "Big Three" networks.