WXIA-TV
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Atlanta, Georgia United States |
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| Branding | 11 Alive (general) 11 Alive News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Holding The Powerful Accountable |
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Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 11 () |
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| Owner |
Tegna Media (Pacific and Southern, LLC) |
| First air date | September 30, 1951 |
| Call letters' meaning |
XI (11 in Roman numerals, former analog channel) Atlanta/Alive |
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WATL WMAZ-TV (Macon) |
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| Transmitter power | 80 kW |
| Height | 303 m (994 ft) |
| Facility ID | 51163 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°45′23.9″N 84°19′54.7″W / 33.756639°N 84.331861°WCoordinates: 33°45′23.9″N 84°19′54.7″W / 33.756639°N 84.331861°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WXIA-TV virtual channel 11 (VHF digital channel 10) is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WATL (channel 36). The two stations has shared studio facilities and offices located at One Monroe Place on the north end of midtown Atlanta; WXIA's transmitter located in the city's east section, near Kirkwood.
On cable, the station is available on channel 6 on both Comcast Xfinity and Charter Spectrum, and in high definition on Xfinity channel 806 and Spectrum channel 706. WXIA-TV is popularly known within the Atlanta metropolitan area by its longtime on-air brand, "11 Alive", which the station has used since 1976.
The station signed on the air on September 30, 1951 as WLTV, an ABC affiliate on VHF channel 8 (the second Atlanta station on this channel after WSB-TV moved to channel 2 a year before), and was originally owned by a group of Atlanta businessmen. In 1953, the station was bought by Cincinnati-based Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, who changed its call letters to WLWA (often rendered as "WLW-A"). This aligned their Atlanta property with Crosley's other television stations, who took their call letters from its flagship radio station, WLW. Crosley then moved the station's over-the-air frequency to channel 11 in order to alleviate signal interference with WROM-TV (channel 9) in nearby Rome (which later moved north to Chattanooga, Tennessee as WTVC), with channel 8 being reallocated for non-commercial educational use by the Federal Communications Commission in May 1960 (WGTV was started by the University of Georgia on channel 8 in 1960).
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