WSB-TV is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with ABC.
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13 Facts About WSB-TV
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The stations share studios at the WSB Television and Radio Group building on West Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta; WSB-TV's transmitter is located on the border of the city's Poncey-Highland and Old Fourth Ward neighborhoods.
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WSB-TV is the second largest ABC-affiliated station by market size that is not owned and operated by the network .
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WSB-TV is located less than one block south of the building formerly utilized by WXIA when that station moved its operations to WATL's studios in 2008.
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However, WSB-TV was the far-and-away market leader despite being affiliated with last-place NBC.
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WSB-TV continued this practice as late as June 2007, when it reportedly preempted a telecast of the Pixar film Finding Nemo in favor of the Ron Howard-directed comedy Parenthood.
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WSB-TV has been involved with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons; from 1970 to 1979, it aired sold-out games at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium where Falcons hosted an AFC team from NBC, then from 1980 to 2005, Monday Night Football from ABC.
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WSB-TV is one of the few Big Three affiliates to carry a midday newscast on weekends .
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WSB-TV became the second station in the Atlanta market and the second Cox-owned station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.
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WSB-TV requested special temporary authority to begin immediate operation of these stations, pending approval of its regular applications.
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In October 2010, WSB-TV applied for and later received a construction permit for another translator southwest of Atlanta in Newnan on channel 17.
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In northwest Georgia, WSB-TV was carried in some of the counties covered by the Chattanooga DMA: Catoosa, Dade, Murray, and Walker, but remains on line-ups in Whitfield County.
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In central Georgia, WSB-TV was available to subscribers of then-co-owned cable provider Cox Communications in the Macon area, although ABC programming was usually blacked out by another local ABC affiliate, WGXA-DT2.
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