The station was named for its founder, Atlanta entrepreneur J ack R ice, J r. The station did carry a top-rated show for a few weeks: Then-CBS affiliate WAGA-TV channel 5 ran a local movie on Wednesday night, and channel 17 stepped in to run Medical Center the rights to which would later be owned by the station's future owners for a time. In January entrepreneur Ted Turner , who ran his father's billboard business and also owned radio stations, bought the low-rated UHF outlet.
WTCG initially retained its original programming format. First, when Turner bought the station, it was the only one in the Atlanta market still broadcasting exclusively in black-and-white because the previous owners had not made necessary color upgrades. Second, money was still very tight during the first couple of years that Turner owned the station. The station decided to purchase the color broadcasting equipment it needed on credit after Turner took over.
However, some months had passed and Turner found himself unable to make the payments on the equipment. As a last resort after unsuccessfully attempting to secure further financing , Turner held an on-air telethon, much in the manner of public television , to raise the money needed to pay the station's bills.
But due to network commitments, the three major affiliates could only keep programs for few years. Turner would then buy the shows that the major affiliates did not renew for nearly half the price of original purchase. Turner also bought most of the movie packages in this manner.
The station placed an on-air emphasis on its movie library; one notable program was Academy Award Theatre , which showcased only Oscar-winning films. The sports and wrestling would become foundation blocks during the early satellite years see below. WTCG made its name also by producing humorous, satirical newscasts. One such newscast was 17 Update Early in the Morning , which featured usually straight-faced Bill Tush and Tina Seldin reporting the news in a mostly normal fashion, occasionally interacting with the studio crew, and with comedic sideline gags at times by another co-anchor The Unknown Newsman wearing a brown paper grocery bag over his head.
Turner discontinued that program after a Congressional investigation took place concerning his fulfilling Federal Communications Commission public service requirements, some months before Turner would prepare to launch CNN , an all-news channel that would strive to be anything but comedic. The show, which bore similarities to American Bandstand and Soul Train , aired late nights each Friday in the mids. All four cable systems started receiving the sleepy Dana Andrews and Cesar Romero film Deep Waters , which was already 30 minutes in progress.
Instantly, WTCG added 24, more households to its viewing audience, which consisted of , households in metropolitan Atlanta. That number would grow exponentially in the next several years, with the first heaviest concentrations in the Southern United States where WTCG's telecasts of Atlanta Braves baseball and professional wrestling were highly popular , but eventually encompassing the nation.
The station, and Turner's innovation, signaled the start of the basic cable revolution. By , WTCG was on cable systems in all 50 states, many of which lacked access to a local commercial independent station and in some cases even a distant one. Through the s, the station was primarily known as SuperStation WTBS , but the "W" was dropped from the branding late in the decade.
In that game, the Braves lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates , in 11 innings. WPCH was also the call letters in the s, s, and s for "Peach In the fall of the station was bought by the owners of WMCA and six years later it was merged into that station. TBS cable wasn't carried, as it had to go through the processes necessary to be approved for Canadian carriage, which for American cable networks is a low percentage of acceptance.
Due to this technicality, Canadian cable services now carry Peachtree TV instead of the nationwide TBS channel that other American cable viewers receive. Should Canadian cable companies wish to air "cable" TBS in the future, they will have to receive necessary approvals which can take several months , and even then the channel may not be approved at all similar general-interest stations USA Network and TNT have not been approved for cable coverage.
Georgia 's nickname is "The Peach State". Soon after being purchased by Turner, the studios were moved to the former Progressive Club site a few blocks west at Techwood Drive. WPCH still uses the building to this day. The station has also applied for an analog backup facility at this location, with a corresponding construction permit dating from its original application in to transmit from the WATL TV 36 digital 25 antenna on the same tower.
Two subsequent applications in to increase the power of the backup have not been ruled on as of October According to the FCC database, another tower holding several other stations is located about meters or feet east-northeast. It includes a nightly movie, various sitcom s, a single run fomerly a double run until June 6, of the game show " Temptation ", and a one-hour simulcast of Turner-owned Headline News at 6am.
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