WSB-TV
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WSB-TV (Channel 2, DTV 39) is the ABC affiliate in Atlanta. It is owned by Cox Enterprises along with WSB-AM-FM and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution through. Its transmitter is located in Atlanta.
History
WSB-TV is the second-oldest station south of Washington, DC, going on the air on September 29, 1948. James M. Cox started the station; he also owned WSB radio and the Atlanta Journal. WSB-TV originally broadcasted on channel 8, while its present channel 2 was licensed to rival newspaper Atlanta Constitution. When the two newspapers merged to form the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, FCC rules (at the time) forbade one entity from owning two television stations in the same city. Therefore, WSB-TV was moved to the Constitution's old channel (2), while channel 8 was surrendered for non-commercial educational use. Channel 8 became WGTV, the flagship station of Georgia Educational Television (now Georgia Public Broadcasting).
In 1955, both AM and TV moved into White Columns, where they remained until a modern new facility was built next door in 1998. Both are located along Atlanta's famed Peachtree Street.
WSB radio had long been affiliated with NBC, and the TV station naturally took that affiliation at sign-on. In 1981, it swapped affiliations with WXIA-TV, becoming an ABC affiliate.
WSB-DT went on the air on April 17 (just before the move), making it one of the first regular-service DTV stations in the country. Today, the station recently has the highest Nielsen ratings of any TV station in the Atlanta area.
Newscasts
WSB-TV has its own newscasts at:
- Weekdays: 5-7am, 7:25-7:30am, 7:55-8am, 8:25-8:30am, 8:55-9am, noon-1pm, 5-6pm, 6-7pm, and 11-11:35pm
- Weekends: noon-12:30pm, 6-7pm, and 11-11:35pm
- Saturdays: 6-10am
- Sundays: 7:30-11am
It also provides a few minutes of news to local cable TV viewers of CNN's Headline News at the end of each half-hour during the daytime, and in 2005 to video monitors on MARTA trains and buses.
Long-time newscasters Monica Kaufman and John Pruitt, Jovita Moore, and meteorologist Glenn Burns are well-known in metro Atlanta.
External links
- WSB-TV homepage (http://www.wsbtv.com/)
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WSB 2 (ABC) -
W04DB 4 -
WAGA 5 (FOX) -
WGTV 8 (PBS) -
WXIA 11 (NBC) -
WPXA 14 (PAX) -
WTBS 17 (Ind) -
W24AL 24 -
WANX-LP 26 -
WPBA 30 (PBS) -
WANN-LP 32 | ||