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WGCL-TV ("Atlanta's channel 46", DTV channel 19) is the CBS television station serving metro Atlanta, USA. Its city of license is Atlanta, and the licensee is Meredith Corporation.

History

Channel 46 signed on in June 1971 as WANX which stood for "Atlanta In Christ". They had a couple hours a day of general entertainmenta nd a couple hours of religion a day. On SUnday they only ran religion. Programming was initially low budget with only an 8 hour broadcast day.

Gradually though the station grew to about a 20 hour broadcast day by 1976. The station ran cartoons, classic sitcoms, family dramas, westerns, and religion including The 700 Club (airing twice a day) on weekdays. Saturdays were kids shows, westerns, movies, etc. Sundays continued to be strictly religious until Fall of 1980 when entertainment aired on afternoons.

In 1984 Tribune bought WANX 46 and changed calls to WGNX. They cut back the 700 Club to once a day and eventually dropped it. They continued a similar entertainment lineup adding newer shows over the years.

Then in 1994 New World announced that they were affiliating all their stations except for San Diego & Boston to Fox plus they were buying an additional 6 stations of 5 would be switching to Fox. Additionally they arranged 2 others stations to be sold to Fox outright. Part of the deal would be that Fox Kids would not go to WAGA but stay on WATL.

WATL 36 though was owned by Fox still. As a result Fox agreed to sell WATL. Originally WB (which was to begin in January 1995) was going to 46 WGNX, UPN to 69 WNEU. But with CBS being evicted from WAGA they needed an affiliate. Niether WGNX or WATL were interested. Both wanted to remain independents. UPN at that point was trying to get a deal on WATL which was still a Fox owned station. CBS fearing they would have no affiliate in Atlanta made a deal to buy very low rated station 69 WNEU in October 1994.

Under that plan 36 WATL would be going to UPN keeping Fox Kids and up for sale, 46 WGNX to WB, and Channel 69 to CBS. Channel 5 would be running Fox prime time shows and sports. All the syndicated shows would remain on their respective stations. But CBS still wanted a station people were familiar with. So they continued to twist arms at Tribune's corporate offices to get an afffiliation deal in Atlanta. Tribune broke down in November and announced they would affiliate with WGNX 46. Also shortly after Fox would agree to sell WATL to Qwest Broadcasting and WB would go there along with Fox Kids staying.

This still left WGNX with cartoons and alot of sitcoms it had no use for being CBS was moving there. CBS was stuck with an independent low rated station. So WGNX sold some of the syndicated shows like off network sitcoms to Channel 69. They also gave 69 the cartoons including "Disney Afternoon". Channel 69 would become a UPN station.

WGNX added evening newscasts and an 11 PM newscast. They also added more syndicated talk and reality shows. Tribune eventually would LMA 36 WATL which was owned by Qwest in 1996. In 1999 Tribune would buy WB 36 WATL and sell 46 WGNX to Meredith. The calls on 46 would become WGCL. Today 46 WGCL is a CBS affiliate running all of CBS's schedule along with syndicated shows and news.


Station timeline

  • 1971:WANX-TV as an independent general entertainment/religious station owned by CBN
  • 1984: Sold to Tribune becoming WGNX-TV
  • 1994: Switched to CBS (previously on WAGA TV 5)
  • 1995: Became known as "CBS 46"
  • 1999: Renamed "CBS Atlanta" owned by Meredith
  • 2000: Callsign change to WGCL-TV, renamed "Georgia's Clear News"
  • 2002: Renamed "CBS Atlanta" again
  • 2003: Renamed "CBS 46" again

Transmission tower

WGCL is on the same tower, north of Druid Hills, with:

The tower also contains construction permits for:

FM stations on the same tower are: WNNX (99.7, newly moved from the WTBS TV main analog tower), and permits for WRFG (89.3) and WKHX-FM (101.5), as well as an application for a broadcast translator from Immanuel Broadcasing Network on 101.9.

Another tower about 120 meters (400 feet) to the west holds the existing WKHX-FM, WLTM (94.9), and WKLS (96.1), and applications for translators on 89.7 and 88.9 from WAY-FM Media Group.

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