WAGA-TV Station Switch & News Overview...1980

[@johnnyballenatl]

And despite the switch from CBS to FOX in 1994, one thing has remained the same: WAGA is STILL on Channel 5 (WSB and WXIA both started on Channel 8 before they went to 2 and 11 respectively with GPB (PBS) occupying 8)!

[@rudyiraheta80]

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[@videonut1988]

Rudy Iraheta, that’s Chanel 8’s satellite station in the state as it’s a statewide network.

[@rustyturner8294]

Seeing Virginia Gunn Pam Martin Jim Axel again takes me back

[@johnnyballenatl]

The video also noted about WAGA unseating WSB in the ratings for the first time ever in 1980...only for Channel 2 to get them back sometime later.

[@excuseyou77]

Watching them throw shade like this at WSB and WXIA is really hilarious when one considers WAGA's own switch about 14 years later.

[@1thetvzone]

Ooh the shade that they did throw, but they think they wouldn't leave the Tiffany network for some rinky dink network called FOX

[@tylermaverickyebra2258]

+thetvzone also 100% open for WNYW ident and o and o news music.

[@rudyiraheta80]

actually it was 6 years

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta no, WAGA switched network affiliations in December 1994

[@rudyiraheta80]

how many fox channel 5

[@1thetvzone]

Ken Cook is the only one still at now WAGA FOX 5...WAGA is a legacy station like WSB.. Love these vintage Atlanta News Videos

[@johnnyballenatl]

And pretty soon, Ken will be retiring.

[@bookerlo1977]

And has retired.

[@essvee86]

Funny thing was that NBC would be number 1 a few years later.

[@ScoopNemeth]

That would change 14 years later, when the FOX network would buy WAGA, and CBS would move to WGNX 46 (now WGCL); marking the second network affiliate switch in CNN territorty

[@rudyiraheta80]

6 years till fox

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta Dude Seriously?!!!! WAGA didn’t become affiliated with FOX until December 11,1994 because of the big switch. I’ve explained it to you several times over and over again.😡😡😡😡

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@TracyGJacksonTV waga is suppose to be like wnyw, wttg, kvvu.

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta For Christ sakes No they shouldn’t, WAGA was not owned by metromedia at all. For fucks sakes just stop with the misinformation bullshit because it’s fucking annoying😡😡😡😡

[@kmart3697]

Now is WANF

[@jefferyrobertson7520]

Waga-Tv Channel 5 with CBS era from 1970 through 1993 followed by WSB TV Channel 2 NBC and ABC era Atlanta Georgia history

[@jerseyfla]

What she said, JR Ewing said at 2:40 is awesome!

[@JHollowayNetwork]

what about the Storer Broadcasting Co. Sales tape that year? (they owned WAGA Atlanta (this one), WJKW Cleveland, WTVG Toledo, WJBK Detroit, WITI Milwaukee, KNSD San Diego, WSBK Boston etc...)

[@MrWade1966]

Kwadwo Holloway , the glass city

[@matthewwhittington-jk9ep]

Wbz & kcnc switch to cbs & wtvd 1985 went to abc witi was abc until 1977.

[@DeAngeloStevens]

In Birmingham, Alabama my hometown WBRC still ABC, WVTM-TV still NBC, WBMG was CBS, WTTO was Independent before WNAL WDBB signed with FOX in 1987

[@matthewwhittington-jk9ep]

Wcft whma was cbs.

[@rjmcallister1888]

WSB and WXIA swapped when NBC bottomed out in 1980, WAGA was bought out by New World/Fox as part of their spending spree in 1994-95 and changed to Fox and CBS moved to then-WGNX.

[@JHollowayNetwork]

@ 2:23 The Instrumental version of CBS's "Looking Good Together" campaign can be heard here.

[@yodapapavintageamericana]

I remember when this happened

[@kmart3697]

until 1994 WAGA-TV switch from CBS to FOX WGNX-TV independente to CBS (now WANF-TV) WATL-TV FOX to the WB now my network tv as know the ATL

[@85Newbs]

Watching this video reminds me how news media have always lifted themselves to elite status in society using sickening self promotion seen in this video.

[@thisguyhere6641]

To any Atlantan out there who were around in 1980, it was obvious that WAGA-TV Channel 5 was smack in the middle of all the commotion involving WSB-TV Channel 2 and WXIA-TV Channel 11. WSB was NBC before switching to ABC. WXIA was definitely ABC before it definitely switched to NBC in the fall of 1980. And WAGA stuck with CBS for 14 years more, before it too switched to a different network. Fox, to be exact.

[@johnnyballenatl]

That was just the same case in Raleigh-Durham, NC: WRAL, the #1 station for decades, rejoined NBC (their first network from 1956-62) after 30 years with CBS; WNCN had nowhere else to go to but CBS. And who was smack in the middle? WTVD, the ABC O&O who until 30 years ago, was with CBS while WRAL was part of the ABC family.

[@thisguyhere6641]

And while you're at it, Jonathan, you might as well say the same thing for Knoxville! In the fall of 1988, WATE Channel 6 was smack in the middle of the commotion between WBIR Channel 10 and WTVK Channel 26. WATE was still ABC, when WBIR went from CBS to NBC, and when WTVK went from NBC to CBS. Of course, WTVK would be renamed WKXT, and moved to Channel 8. It is now WVLT.

[@rudyiraheta80]

what channel was marvin zindler on

[@johnnyballenatl]

@@thisguyhere6641 Salt Lake City: KTVX, still ABC since 1960 after KSL and KUTV switched networks in 1995 (CBS and NBC to vice versa).

[@thisguyhere6641]

@@johnnyballenatl Back in 1988, WATE was and still is ABC, when WBIR moved from CBS to NBC, and WTVK moved from NBC to CBS! And speaking of WTVK, it moved from Channel 26 to Channel 8, and became WKXT! Now, it's WVLT!

[@tylermaverickyebra2258]

1:00 kctv theme plays

[@joshualazenby1387]

14 years later, WAGA switched to FOX.

[@rudyiraheta80]

no 6 years for fox

[@rudyiraheta80]

watl was tribune owned independent

[@rudyiraheta80]

are waga, wttg, wnyw the same owners

[@rudyiraheta80]

@King Skruffer how many fox fives

[@DeAngeloStevens]

@@rudyiraheta80 stop trolling you sick SON OF A BITCH

[@joebradio]

Ironically, Pat Summerall and the Falcons would move to Fox but would stay on WAGA

[@stephenholloway6893]

At least since December of 1994. The rest of the 94 season, WATL, which was still FOX at the time, aired the Falcons game before the switch took place.

[@johnnyballenatl]

Stephen Holloway The Falcons can still be seen on WANF and CBS on occasion.

[@rudyiraheta80]

wrong watl was a tribune owned independent station like ktla

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta no WATL wasn’t owned by Tribune until February 2000, look it up and read the history

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@TracyGJacksonTV it's tribune till 93, when upn & wb was launch jaunary 95, watl was a duo wb & upn affiliate, like kdaf. wupa became a duo wb & upn affiliate later, like kdfi. what i mean is that some of the series that aired on upn/wb were carried on the 2 stations separate, for example, charmed in atlanta was on wupa, & charmed in dallas was on kdfi. the film hot boyz in atlanta was on watl, in dallas it was on kdaf. star trek in atlanta was on watl, in dallas on kdaf. i remember the kdfi commercial break from february 10, 04 with the affordable insurance commercial, that aired on a tuesday, they were on a game, the wb/upn block had to be pre-emptied on either ktxa o kdfw.

[@DeAngeloStevens]

Until affiliation switch came in 1994.

[@sammymartin8390]

they couldn't say son of a bitch now

[@kmart3697]

after 31 years with CBS WAGA-TV 5 now in dec 1994 became FOX

[@thisguyhere6641]

+Jean Vargas Alvarez, actually WAGA spent its first 45 years with CBS before switching to Fox in 1994.

[@rudyiraheta80]

waga & wnyw started as dumont independent metro media

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta um WAGA 5 was CBS from 1949-1994, This was 1980, WNYW 5 New York was Independant and WAGA 5 Atlanta was affiliated with CBS they weren’t owned by the same people

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@TracyGJacksonTV as of washington dc

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta wttg 5 Washington D.C and wnyw 5 New York were sister Stations when FOX launched in 1986, not WAGA 5 Atlanta because it had the cbs affiliation and WATL 36 Atlanta had the fox affiliation when it launched

[@DeAngeloStevens]

16 Years before WBRC switched from ABC to FOX WVTM remains with NBC becomes NBC Owned-and-Operated Station WBMG remains with CBS before renaming WIAT in 1998 WTTO dropped FOX to Independent becoming a WB affiliate in 1997 WCFT in Tuscaloosa and WJSU in Anniston switching to CBS to ABC in 1996 known as Alabama's ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama

[@delldunn7590]

Then channel 5 became fox network in the 90s I liked them as cbs better

[@legoguy016]

0:31 Wait. So the switch DIDN'T happen on September 1?

[@JHollowayNetwork]

so WAGA-TV at the time was owned by Storer Broadcasting Company? (which owned sister station WJKW-TV in Cleveland)

[@ProgRockNerd]

Yep--Storer owned it for about 40 years, AFAIK.

[@ndulmillenium]

Now, every single station remains unsold, except WAGA. (the spin-off doesn't count)

[@altfactor]

Until 1994.

[@tyrese3745]

What happened to Chuck Moore?

[@johnnyballenatl]

Chuck would go to WXIA -- reuniting him with Guy Sharpe, who had already left WAGA -- as the station was just bought by Gannett; he would co-anchor with John Pruitt, who spent the '80s and early '90s at 11 before returning home to WSB (Chuck Moore died in 2016).

[@tyrese3745]

+Jonathan Allen What year?

[@tyrese3745]

+Jonathan Allen 'Cause he sure wasn't there between 1981 and 1984.

[@dbrownjr.1410]

I saw chuck Moore on station channel 32 taccoa north east ga. two years ago

[@rudyiraheta80]

& on 13 jonathan

[@kmart3697]

but 14 years later WAGA-TV change to switch from CBS to FOX

[@rudyiraheta80]

it was 6 till fox

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta um WAGA didn’t become Fox until 1994 when New World bought the station after 45 years being affiliated with CBS

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@TracyGJacksonTV why did they do that?

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta because Fox Broadcasting bought the Broadcasting rights to nfl and the new world situation happened 🙄🙄🙄

[@rudyiraheta80]

why did chicago didn't participate was it the univision situation on wciu

[@tyreeharrellwright8998]

waga Fox 5 owned by o&o

[@mshroye2]

That’s a bullshit way to get ahead. Our news product is shitty our programming sucks we’re in last place so why don’t we confuse people lie to Walter Cronkite so he can do promos for us and hold a contest that nearly everyone will lose because of a shows twist ending.

[@rudyiraheta80]

wrong cbs is on wgcl

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Rudy Iraheta shut up just shut up

[@stephenholloway6893]

Besides this was back in 1980. WAGA stayed with CBS until they switched in 1994.

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

Stephen Holloway I agree Channel 46 was still Independent at the time and in 1984 Tribune Broadcasting bought the station and changed their callsigns to WGNX. WSB switched from NBC to ABC and WXIA switched from ABC to NBC. WAGA still had the CBS affiliation, the big switch didn’t occurred until 1994 when New World Communications signed a deal with Fox Broadcasting had their stations end their 45 year affiliation with the big three (I.e NBC,CBS and ABC) switch to FOX