WAGA-TV

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WAGA-TV

Brand	FOX 5
City of License	Atlanta, Georgia
Market	Atlanta, Georgia
Channel	27.1 digital (high definition, virtual 5.1), subcarrier 27.2 (standard definition, virtual 5.2) Formerly: 5 analog (1949-2009)
Network Affiliation	Current: FOX Formerly: CBS (1949–94), secondary with ABC (1949–51), secondary with DuMont (1949–55)
Founded	1949
Company	FOX Television Stations
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	Judge Judy Judge Joe Brown TMZ

WAGA-TV is the FOX affiliate for the Atlanta television market, broadcasting on digital UHF channel 27.1 for high definition telecasts, while its subcarrier, 27.2 telecasts in standard definition. They are displayed on digital tuners as virtual 5.1 and 5.2.

WAGA-TV, on analog VHF channel 5, was the TV offshoot of WAGA radio, which broadcast at 590 khz (AM dial, having moved from 1480). The radio station was a CBS radio affiliate at the time, so by default, WAGA-TV would become a CBS television affiliate. They would also carry ABC and DuMont shows under secondary affiliation. Their original studio building was the same West Peachtree Street site where WJRJ/channel 17 (now WPCH) would occupy later. In 1967, WAGA moved to a plantation-style building on Briarcliff Road in the unincorporated east side of Atlanta.

WAGA's logo in the early-to-mid 1970s.

Like many network stations independently owned, WAGA would black out some CBS shows in favor of syndicated fare and local movies, but it was generally regarded as one of CBS's strongest performers. By the 90s, WAGA was owned by New World Communications, which was based in Atlanta. In 1994, CBS lost the NFC football package to upstart network FOX. In a bid to shore up stronger VHF band affiliates, FOX cut a deal with New World to make a number of its stations FOX affiliates, WAGA one of them. By September, 1994, WAGA began piecemeal blackouts of CBS shows in preparation for the switch to FOX that December (one CBS show, The Price Is Right, would air on WVEU/channel 69--now WUPA--during the interim until CBS named a new affiliate for Atlanta, which would eventually be WGNX/channel 46, now WGCL.)

WAGA's logo in 1993, a year
before switching to Fox.

WAGA passed up the FOX Kids block weekdays and weekends, so they were taken by WATL/channel 36, then later by WHOT/channel 34 (now Univision's WUVG) and WUPA/channel 69. Fox's kids shows were discontinued at the start of 2009.

WAGA is owned and operated by FOX and the station is one of the network's strongest affiliates.

[edit] Digital programming

Virtual	Physical	Name	Programming
5.1	27.1	WAGA-DT	High Definition
5.2	27.2	WAGA-DT2	Standard definition

[edit] Current Prime-Time Schedule

Day	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	11:00
Monday	Access Hollywood	TMZ	House, M.D.		Lie to Me		FOX 5 News	Fox 5 News Edge
Tuesday	Access Hollywood	TMZ	So You Think You Can Dance				FOX 5 News	Fox 5 News Edge
Wednesday	Access Hollywood	TMZ	So You Think You Can Dance		Glee		FOX 5 News	Fox 5 News Edge
Thursday	Access Hollywood	TMZ	Bones		Fringe		FOX 5 News	Fox 5 News Edge
Friday	Access Hollywood	TMZ	Bones (repeats)		House, M.D. (repeats)		FOX 5 News	Fox 5 News Edge
Saturday	FOX 5 News		COPS	COPS (repeats)	America's Most Wanted		FOX 5 News	MADtv
Sunday	Brothers or The O.T. (Football Post Game Show)	Comedy Repeats or Brothers	The Simpsons	The Cleveland Show	Family Guy	American Dad	FOX 5 News	TMZ