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WUPA

January 29, 2023

WUPA (channel 69) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with The CW. The station is owned by the CBS News and Stations group and maintains studios on Northeast Expressway (I-85) in unincorporated DeKalb County (with an Atlanta mailing address); its transmitter is located near Shepherds Lane and Arnold Avenue in the Woodland Hills section of northeastern Atlanta (near North Druid Hills).

WUPA
Channels
BrandingAtlanta's CW69
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
August 22, 1981 (41 years ago) (1981-08-22)
Former call signs
WVEU (1981–1995)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 69 (UHF, 1981–2009)
  • Digital: 43 (UHF, 2001–2019)
Call sign meaning
United Paramount/Atlanta, for its former affiliation
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID6900
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT328.6 m (1,078.1 ft)
Transmitter coordinates33°48′26.4″N 84°20′21.5″W / 33.807333°N 84.339306°W / 33.807333; -84.339306Coordinates: 33°48′26.4″N 84°20′21.5″W / 33.807333°N 84.339306°W / 33.807333; -84.339306
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.cbsnews.com/atlanta/

Channel 69 in Atlanta first began broadcasting in 1981 as WVEU. Years of technical issues provoked by interference to mobile radio users and consequent limitations on the station's operating hours and signal strength contributed to the failure of subscription television (STV) and a music video service that operated the station. WVEU's local founders sold the station to CBS in 1994 at a time when CBS needed to find a new affiliate in Atlanta, but the network was able to negotiate to affiliate with another, more built-up station instead. WVEU became an affiliate of UPN and was then sold to the Paramount Stations Group, which substantially improved the station's programming and ratings in the years that followed before UPN was replaced with The CW in 2006. In addition to a hybrid local/national 10 p.m. newscast, WUPA is the preseason television home of Atlanta Falcons football.

History

Construction, land mobile dispute, and STV years (1981–1984)

 
The Peachtree Plaza Hotel was the original transmitter site for WVEU.

In 1978, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received two applications for new television stations to use channel 69 in Atlanta; on August 19, 1980, the final decision was given to award it to a consortium of Atlanta-based investors known as Broadcast Corporation of Georgia (BCG), which proposed a hybrid operation consisting of daytime ad-supported programming and a subscription television (STV) service in evening hours.[2] The antenna atop the Peachtree Plaza Hotel from which channel 69 would radiate had been hoisted into place in mid-August, days before the license decision was publicized.[3] The subscription programming would be supplied under the Superstar TV name by Subscription Television of Greater Atlanta, a consortium originally reported to be co-owned by Clint Murchison—who had subscription television holdings in other cities, including the Super TV service in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore markets—and Atlanta electronics manufacturer Dynacom, which would produce the decoders subscribers would need to view Superstar programming.[4] In actuality, the owner was not Clint Murchison but Clyde A. Murchison, whom a 1982 article in The Atlanta Constitution described as Clint's great-nephew.[5][a]

WVEU began broadcasting on August 22, 1981.[10] However, a planned full launch on October 1 had to be scuttled because of interference the station's broadcasts on channel 69—at the top of the TV band, 800 to 806 MHz—were generating to two-way land mobile radio transmissions. Further, the station had planned to fill daytime hours with programming from a business news service known as The Market Report, which ran into financial difficulties and was unable to start on time.[11] Superstar TV was able to begin operating before the end of the year,[12] with an official kickoff held on January 8, 1982,[13] but WVEU was still required to shut down until 7 p.m. on weekday evenings, essentially leaving it without any commercial, non-STV programming.[5]

The two-way radio dispute continued to loom large over every facet of WVEU's operations for several years, as the station subsisted on production contracts.[14] In June 1983, the FCC ruled that the station could begin operating at 50 percent power before 7 p.m. if it paid an estimated $250,000 to relocate all of the land mobile users affected by interference. However, these users protested the decision and filed for reconsideration with the commission.[15] In February 1984, the FCC ordered the station to engage the users or pay them to relocate on penalty of losing the provisional program test authority under which WVEU had operated since 1981.[16] While the dispute was resolved by July 1984, when the FCC granted a full license to BCG, the issue had doomed Superstar TV, which filed for bankruptcy in April 1983 and made its last broadcasts on the morning of July 23 with fewer than 3,000 subscribers.[17][18]

The independent years (1984–1995)

To replace Superstar TV, WVEU signed an operating agreement with VideoMusic Channel, which had broadcast music videos on Atlanta-area cable systems, to program nearly all of channel 69's airtime.[15] The station brought the programming in-house in August 1984[19] before eventually canceling it altogether and replacing it with syndicated shows and reruns because, it learned, music videos were not very "salable" to advertisers.[20] That same year, negotiations were held and an initial agreement reached to sell the station to the RBP Corporation of Massachusetts, but no transaction was consummated.[21]

The station also made its first entry into the television sports market, airing what was to be a package of 30 Atlanta Hawks NBA games in the 1984–85 season, with John Sterling as the play-by-play announcer.[22] This package was whittled down to 19 games because of insufficient advertiser interest.[23] A new 20-game package was carried in the following season, this time with the Hawks selling the advertising time;[24] the Hawks later added a game at The Omni that sold out, their first home telecast in two years.[25]

We are owned by six people, none of whom is extremely wealthy. We are, then, at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to funds. At the same time, we never make a purchase for which we don't know how we are going to pay. We have almost no debt.

Vance Eckersley, general manager, WVEU, on the station's programming resources[14]

Through the mid-1990s, WVEU became Atlanta's television station of last resort while a stabilizing WATL (channel 36) and a growing WGNX (channel 46) became the city's primary local independents. In a 1991 article by Prentis Rogers in The Atlanta Constitution, it was described as the city's "quicker picker-upper",[26] constantly airing shows that the local network affiliates passed on. These included CBS's morning news program (under the titles of the CBS Morning News, The Morning Program, and CBS This Morning) from 1986 through 1994[27][28] and its late night programming,[29] as well as numerous preempted network sports telecasts that the local affiliates could not air due to scheduling conflicts. Beyond displaced network programs, WVEU featured an eclectic mix, a function of being what Business Atlanta writer Russell Shaw called the "poor cousin" of Atlanta independent television.[14] There were telecasts of martial arts movies under the banner Black Belt Theater and later hosted by Morgus the Magnificent, a character first introduced decades prior in Detroit and New Orleans;[29] professional wrestling; a weekday public access show, Community; The Auto Doctor, a locally produced weekly magazine show about cars;[30] and jazz music video show Jazz Beat.[31] After another proposed sale, this one to the Home Shopping Network in 1989,[32] fell through, the station added Japanese-language programming under the title 600 Station to its morning lineup.[33]

Almost a CBS affiliate

Further information: 1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment

On May 23, 1994, as a result of the network winning the rights to air NFC football games,[34] New World Communications announced an affiliation deal with Fox to switch the affiliations of most of New World's stations to the network. One of the stations involved was WAGA-TV (channel 5), which would replace Fox-owned WATL as that network's Atlanta outlet. This left CBS in the position of seeking a new Atlanta-area affiliate.[35]

In July, BCG approached CBS and proposed to sell it WVEU; two months later, still with no better station signed, CBS agreed to spend $22 million to purchase WVEU for conversion to a CBS owned-and-operated station.[36] A CBS move to WVEU would have meant an unprecedented campaign to build up the station, including major expenses in promotion, starting a local news service, and possibly relocating from the facilities off of I-85, which would be of inadequate size to house a full-service, news-producing station. One consultant interviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution estimated CBS's total expenses as $100 million over several years.[37] For the outgoing Broadcast Corporation of Georgia, owners of a station that had never turned a profit in its 13-year history and became cash flow-positive in 1993 for the first time in its history, and particularly for majority owner David Harris, it was an unexpected windfall.[38]

Despite having agreed to buy WVEU, CBS continued to campaign for a better partner. It continued to negotiate with Fox and with Tribune Broadcasting, then-owner of WGNX, and by mid-November, the paperwork to purchase channel 69 had not been filed at the FCC.[39] On November 16, it was announced that CBS would not be moving to WVEU but instead to WGNX, a station that already produced local newscasts,[40] with CBS committing to buy WVEU and immediately resell it.[41]

UPN affiliation (1995–2006)

Even though channel 69 was not to be the CBS affiliate in Atlanta, WVEU emerged from the sale to CBS having secured a valuable network affiliation. WATL aligned with the upstart WB network for January 1995, and the new United Paramount Network (UPN) still had not signed up an Atlanta affiliate. There was no other practical outlet with which the new UPN could affiliate in Atlanta, and UPN signed an agreement with WVEU in December, a month before its launch.[42] Behind UPN came a buyer: the Paramount Stations Group, which began to negotiate with CBS to acquire WVEU.[43] Paid programming was reduced from 40 hours a week to 13, and stronger syndicated and UPN shows lifted its ratings.[44]

In May 1995, CBS agreed to sell WVEU to Viacom, the parent company of the Paramount Stations Group, for $27 million; to stay under the 12-station ownership limit of the time, the company sold one of its non-UPN stations, KSLA in Shreveport, Louisiana.[44] After closing on the purchase, Viacom began a significant makeover of the station. This included a new call sign, WUPA (for United Paramount/Atlanta), which it assumed on December 11, as well as a more aggressive stance to purchasing syndicated programming.[45] Household ratings tripled, and the network recognized WUPA as its first affiliate of the year.[46]

In the late 1990s, WUPA began to add local sports programming. When TBS converted from a superstation to a basic cable channel, it was forced to reduce the number of Atlanta Braves baseball games it telecast. WUPA picked up an 11-game package of Braves games sold by TBS for the 1998 season,[47] which became a 30-game package for 1999[48] before being reclaimed for the new Turner South regional cable channel in 2000.[49] When Atlanta got a hockey team, the new Atlanta Thrashers aired 15 games a year on WUPA.[50] The Hawks returned to channel 69 in 2001 after 15 years when their existing carrier, WHOT-TV (channel 34), was sold to be changed to Spanish-language programming.[51]

Over the course of the early 2000s, WUPA sought to bolster its local identity. It changed its branding from "UPN 69" to "UPN Atlanta" in 2003 and began producing non-news specials; it also sponsored the Music Midtown festival.[52]

The CW (2006–present)

 
An "Atlanta CW Road Crew" vehicle at the 2007 AJC Auto Show

On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation (which had been created as a result of the split of Viacom at the start of the year) announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW; the day of the announcement, it was revealed that 11 of CBS Corporation's 15 UPN affiliates, including WUPA, would become CW stations.[53][54]

Local programming

Newscasts

On April 5, 2004, NBC affiliate WXIA-TV began producing a half-hour prime time newscast at 10 p.m. for WUPA titled UPN Atlanta News at Ten. This program, for which WXIA-TV sold the advertising,[55] was accompanied by a separately produced, live half-hour talk program at 10:30 p.m. titled Atlanta Tonight.[56] Up against stiff competition from the incumbent 10 p.m. newscast on WAGA, both programs seen on channel 69 suffered, and the 10 p.m. newscast and Atlanta Tonight were canceled on August 28, 2005, for "economic reasons".[57]

On January 17, 2020, CBS Television Stations announced that it would be introducing a nightly 10 p.m. newscast for WUPA, produced by New York City sister station WCBS-TV; the program debuted February 17.[58][59] In March 2020, following the temporary shutdown of the CBS Broadcast Center during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, and for the next five months, WUPA began simulcasting another 10 p.m. newscast produced within the CBS group: that aired by WSBK-TV in Boston, with local coverage limited to a news ticker and prerecorded weather forecasts.[60]

On August 11, 2020, the Atlanta-oriented newscast was relaunched, with production shifted to KTVT in Fort Worth, Texas.[61] On July 18, 2022, this newscast was relaunched as Atlanta Now News under a new hybrid local/national format which continues to be produced from Fort Worth.[62]

In addition to the newscast, WUPA produces a weekly public affairs program known as Focus Atlanta.[63]

Sports

In 2014, WUPA became the official television station of the Atlanta Falcons, gaining rights to its preseason games and introducing weekly programs dedicated to the team. The preseason broadcasts were initially produced by CBS Sports but have been produced by Tupelo Raycom since 2017.[64][65]

In 2017, as part of a broadcasting deal with the city's new Major League Soccer franchise Atlanta United FC and Fox Sports Networks, WUPA began to air the team's overflow games.[66][67] WUPA was replaced in this role by WPCH-TV for the 2022 season.[68]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WUPA[1]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
69.1 1080i 16:9 WUPA-DT Main WUPA programming / The CW
69.2 480i Start Start TV
69.3 TBD TBD
69.4 MeTV Simulcast of WGTA / MeTV
69.5 FAVE Fave TV
69.6 Charge! Charge!

Analog-to-digital conversion

The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 69, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television; its digital broadcasts remained on UHF channel 43.[69]

The station was repacked from channel 43 to 36 in 2019.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Clyde Murchison was not related to Clint at all. This supposed connection became highly relevant when Clyde Murchison attempted to put together a radio station group known as Radioactivity Broadcast Group in 1988. Other investors in the firm conducted due diligence on Clyde. They discovered he was of no relation after a friend of the actual Murchison family—who had met one of the Radioactivity investors by chance at a party in New York[6]—failed to recognize him, while a background check did not substantiate degrees Clint claimed to have received from Harvard University and Stanford University, leading to the investors contacting the FBI. Murchison was then arrested on charges of wire fraud, having also forged documents including a supposed $6.4 million letter of credit from Chase Manhattan Bank.[7][8] He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in prison in 1989.[9]

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External links

  • Official website
  • MeTVAtlanta.com – MeTV Atlanta official website

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WUPA channel 69 is a television station in Atlanta Georgia United States affiliated with The CW The station is owned by the CBS News and Stations group and maintains studios on Northeast Expressway I 85 in unincorporated DeKalb County with an Atlanta mailing address its transmitter is located near Shepherds Lane and Arnold Avenue in the Woodland Hills section of northeastern Atlanta near North Druid Hills WUPAAtlanta GeorgiaUnited StatesChannelsDigital 36 UHF Virtual 69BrandingAtlanta s CW69ProgrammingAffiliations69 1 The CW 1 for others see SubchannelsOwnershipOwnerCBS News and Stations Paramount Global Atlanta Television Station WUPA Inc HistoryFirst air dateAugust 22 1981 41 years ago 1981 08 22 Former call signsWVEU 1981 1995 Former channel number s Analog 69 UHF 1981 2009 Digital 43 UHF 2001 2019 Former affiliationsIndependent 1981 1995 Superstar TV 1981 1983 UPN 1995 2006 Call sign meaningUnited Paramount Atlanta for its former affiliationTechnical informationLicensing authorityFCCFacility ID6900ERP1 000 kWHAAT328 6 m 1 078 1 ft Transmitter coordinates33 48 26 4 N 84 20 21 5 W 33 807333 N 84 339306 W 33 807333 84 339306 Coordinates 33 48 26 4 N 84 20 21 5 W 33 807333 N 84 339306 W 33 807333 84 339306LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr cbsnews wbr com wbr atlanta wbr Channel 69 in Atlanta first began broadcasting in 1981 as WVEU Years of technical issues provoked by interference to mobile radio users and consequent limitations on the station s operating hours and signal strength contributed to the failure of subscription television STV and a music video service that operated the station WVEU s local founders sold the station to CBS in 1994 at a time when CBS needed to find a new affiliate in Atlanta but the network was able to negotiate to affiliate with another more built up station instead WVEU became an affiliate of UPN and was then sold to the Paramount Stations Group which substantially improved the station s programming and ratings in the years that followed before UPN was replaced with The CW in 2006 In addition to a hybrid local national 10 p m newscast WUPA is the preseason television home of Atlanta Falcons football Contents 1 History 1 1 Construction land mobile dispute and STV years 1981 1984 1 2 The independent years 1984 1995 1 3 Almost a CBS affiliate 1 4 UPN affiliation 1995 2006 1 5 The CW 2006 present 2 Local programming 2 1 Newscasts 2 2 Sports 3 Technical information 3 1 Subchannels 3 2 Analog to digital conversion 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksHistory EditConstruction land mobile dispute and STV years 1981 1984 Edit The Peachtree Plaza Hotel was the original transmitter site for WVEU In 1978 the Federal Communications Commission FCC received two applications for new television stations to use channel 69 in Atlanta on August 19 1980 the final decision was given to award it to a consortium of Atlanta based investors known as Broadcast Corporation of Georgia BCG which proposed a hybrid operation consisting of daytime ad supported programming and a subscription television STV service in evening hours 2 The antenna atop the Peachtree Plaza Hotel from which channel 69 would radiate had been hoisted into place in mid August days before the license decision was publicized 3 The subscription programming would be supplied under the Superstar TV name by Subscription Television of Greater Atlanta a consortium originally reported to be co owned by Clint Murchison who had subscription television holdings in other cities including the Super TV service in the Washington D C and Baltimore markets and Atlanta electronics manufacturer Dynacom which would produce the decoders subscribers would need to view Superstar programming 4 In actuality the owner was not Clint Murchison but Clyde A Murchison whom a 1982 article in The Atlanta Constitution described as Clint s great nephew 5 a WVEU began broadcasting on August 22 1981 10 However a planned full launch on October 1 had to be scuttled because of interference the station s broadcasts on channel 69 at the top of the TV band 800 to 806 MHz were generating to two way land mobile radio transmissions Further the station had planned to fill daytime hours with programming from a business news service known as The Market Report which ran into financial difficulties and was unable to start on time 11 Superstar TV was able to begin operating before the end of the year 12 with an official kickoff held on January 8 1982 13 but WVEU was still required to shut down until 7 p m on weekday evenings essentially leaving it without any commercial non STV programming 5 The two way radio dispute continued to loom large over every facet of WVEU s operations for several years as the station subsisted on production contracts 14 In June 1983 the FCC ruled that the station could begin operating at 50 percent power before 7 p m if it paid an estimated 250 000 to relocate all of the land mobile users affected by interference However these users protested the decision and filed for reconsideration with the commission 15 In February 1984 the FCC ordered the station to engage the users or pay them to relocate on penalty of losing the provisional program test authority under which WVEU had operated since 1981 16 While the dispute was resolved by July 1984 when the FCC granted a full license to BCG the issue had doomed Superstar TV which filed for bankruptcy in April 1983 and made its last broadcasts on the morning of July 23 with fewer than 3 000 subscribers 17 18 The independent years 1984 1995 Edit To replace Superstar TV WVEU signed an operating agreement with VideoMusic Channel which had broadcast music videos on Atlanta area cable systems to program nearly all of channel 69 s airtime 15 The station brought the programming in house in August 1984 19 before eventually canceling it altogether and replacing it with syndicated shows and reruns because it learned music videos were not very salable to advertisers 20 That same year negotiations were held and an initial agreement reached to sell the station to the RBP Corporation of Massachusetts but no transaction was consummated 21 The station also made its first entry into the television sports market airing what was to be a package of 30 Atlanta Hawks NBA games in the 1984 85 season with John Sterling as the play by play announcer 22 This package was whittled down to 19 games because of insufficient advertiser interest 23 A new 20 game package was carried in the following season this time with the Hawks selling the advertising time 24 the Hawks later added a game at The Omni that sold out their first home telecast in two years 25 We are owned by six people none of whom is extremely wealthy We are then at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to funds At the same time we never make a purchase for which we don t know how we are going to pay We have almost no debt Vance Eckersley general manager WVEU on the station s programming resources 14 Through the mid 1990s WVEU became Atlanta s television station of last resort while a stabilizing WATL channel 36 and a growing WGNX channel 46 became the city s primary local independents In a 1991 article by Prentis Rogers in The Atlanta Constitution it was described as the city s quicker picker upper 26 constantly airing shows that the local network affiliates passed on These included CBS s morning news program under the titles of the CBS Morning News The Morning Program and CBS This Morning from 1986 through 1994 27 28 and its late night programming 29 as well as numerous preempted network sports telecasts that the local affiliates could not air due to scheduling conflicts Beyond displaced network programs WVEU featured an eclectic mix a function of being what Business Atlanta writer Russell Shaw called the poor cousin of Atlanta independent television 14 There were telecasts of martial arts movies under the banner Black Belt Theater and later hosted by Morgus the Magnificent a character first introduced decades prior in Detroit and New Orleans 29 professional wrestling a weekday public access show Community The Auto Doctor a locally produced weekly magazine show about cars 30 and jazz music video show Jazz Beat 31 After another proposed sale this one to the Home Shopping Network in 1989 32 fell through the station added Japanese language programming under the title 600 Station to its morning lineup 33 Almost a CBS affiliate Edit Further information 1994 1996 United States broadcast television realignment On May 23 1994 as a result of the network winning the rights to air NFC football games 34 New World Communications announced an affiliation deal with Fox to switch the affiliations of most of New World s stations to the network One of the stations involved was WAGA TV channel 5 which would replace Fox owned WATL as that network s Atlanta outlet This left CBS in the position of seeking a new Atlanta area affiliate 35 In July BCG approached CBS and proposed to sell it WVEU two months later still with no better station signed CBS agreed to spend 22 million to purchase WVEU for conversion to a CBS owned and operated station 36 A CBS move to WVEU would have meant an unprecedented campaign to build up the station including major expenses in promotion starting a local news service and possibly relocating from the facilities off of I 85 which would be of inadequate size to house a full service news producing station One consultant interviewed by The Atlanta Journal Constitution estimated CBS s total expenses as 100 million over several years 37 For the outgoing Broadcast Corporation of Georgia owners of a station that had never turned a profit in its 13 year history and became cash flow positive in 1993 for the first time in its history and particularly for majority owner David Harris it was an unexpected windfall 38 Despite having agreed to buy WVEU CBS continued to campaign for a better partner It continued to negotiate with Fox and with Tribune Broadcasting then owner of WGNX and by mid November the paperwork to purchase channel 69 had not been filed at the FCC 39 On November 16 it was announced that CBS would not be moving to WVEU but instead to WGNX a station that already produced local newscasts 40 with CBS committing to buy WVEU and immediately resell it 41 UPN affiliation 1995 2006 Edit Even though channel 69 was not to be the CBS affiliate in Atlanta WVEU emerged from the sale to CBS having secured a valuable network affiliation WATL aligned with the upstart WB network for January 1995 and the new United Paramount Network UPN still had not signed up an Atlanta affiliate There was no other practical outlet with which the new UPN could affiliate in Atlanta and UPN signed an agreement with WVEU in December a month before its launch 42 Behind UPN came a buyer the Paramount Stations Group which began to negotiate with CBS to acquire WVEU 43 Paid programming was reduced from 40 hours a week to 13 and stronger syndicated and UPN shows lifted its ratings 44 In May 1995 CBS agreed to sell WVEU to Viacom the parent company of the Paramount Stations Group for 27 million to stay under the 12 station ownership limit of the time the company sold one of its non UPN stations KSLA in Shreveport Louisiana 44 After closing on the purchase Viacom began a significant makeover of the station This included a new call sign WUPA for United Paramount Atlanta which it assumed on December 11 as well as a more aggressive stance to purchasing syndicated programming 45 Household ratings tripled and the network recognized WUPA as its first affiliate of the year 46 In the late 1990s WUPA began to add local sports programming When TBS converted from a superstation to a basic cable channel it was forced to reduce the number of Atlanta Braves baseball games it telecast WUPA picked up an 11 game package of Braves games sold by TBS for the 1998 season 47 which became a 30 game package for 1999 48 before being reclaimed for the new Turner South regional cable channel in 2000 49 When Atlanta got a hockey team the new Atlanta Thrashers aired 15 games a year on WUPA 50 The Hawks returned to channel 69 in 2001 after 15 years when their existing carrier WHOT TV channel 34 was sold to be changed to Spanish language programming 51 Over the course of the early 2000s WUPA sought to bolster its local identity It changed its branding from UPN 69 to UPN Atlanta in 2003 and began producing non news specials it also sponsored the Music Midtown festival 52 The CW 2006 present Edit An Atlanta CW Road Crew vehicle at the 2007 AJC Auto Show On January 24 2006 the Warner Bros unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation which had been created as a result of the split of Viacom at the start of the year announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks respective programming to create a new fifth network called The CW the day of the announcement it was revealed that 11 of CBS Corporation s 15 UPN affiliates including WUPA would become CW stations 53 54 Local programming EditNewscasts Edit On April 5 2004 NBC affiliate WXIA TV began producing a half hour prime time newscast at 10 p m for WUPA titled UPN Atlanta News at Ten This program for which WXIA TV sold the advertising 55 was accompanied by a separately produced live half hour talk program at 10 30 p m titled Atlanta Tonight 56 Up against stiff competition from the incumbent 10 p m newscast on WAGA both programs seen on channel 69 suffered and the 10 p m newscast and Atlanta Tonight were canceled on August 28 2005 for economic reasons 57 On January 17 2020 CBS Television Stations announced that it would be introducing a nightly 10 p m newscast for WUPA produced by New York City sister station WCBS TV the program debuted February 17 58 59 In March 2020 following the temporary shutdown of the CBS Broadcast Center during the COVID 19 pandemic in New York City and for the next five months WUPA began simulcasting another 10 p m newscast produced within the CBS group that aired by WSBK TV in Boston with local coverage limited to a news ticker and prerecorded weather forecasts 60 On August 11 2020 the Atlanta oriented newscast was relaunched with production shifted to KTVT in Fort Worth Texas 61 On July 18 2022 this newscast was relaunched as Atlanta Now News under a new hybrid local national format which continues to be produced from Fort Worth 62 In addition to the newscast WUPA produces a weekly public affairs program known as Focus Atlanta 63 Sports Edit In 2014 WUPA became the official television station of the Atlanta Falcons gaining rights to its preseason games and introducing weekly programs dedicated to the team The preseason broadcasts were initially produced by CBS Sports but have been produced by Tupelo Raycom since 2017 64 65 In 2017 as part of a broadcasting deal with the city s new Major League Soccer franchise Atlanta United FC and Fox Sports Networks WUPA began to air the team s overflow games 66 67 WUPA was replaced in this role by WPCH TV for the 2022 season 68 Technical information EditSubchannels Edit The station s digital signal is multiplexed Subchannels of WUPA 1 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming69 1 1080i 16 9 WUPA DT Main WUPA programming The CW69 2 480i Start Start TV69 3 TBD TBD69 4 MeTV Simulcast of WGTA MeTV69 5 FAVE Fave TV69 6 Charge Charge Analog to digital conversion Edit The station shut down its analog signal over UHF channel 69 on June 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television its digital broadcasts remained on UHF channel 43 69 The station was repacked from channel 43 to 36 in 2019 1 Notes Edit Clyde Murchison was not related to Clint at all This supposed connection became highly relevant when Clyde Murchison attempted to put together a radio station group known as Radioactivity Broadcast Group in 1988 Other investors in the firm conducted due diligence on Clyde They discovered he was of no relation after a friend of the actual Murchison family who had met one of the Radioactivity investors by chance at a party in New York 6 failed to recognize him while a background check did not substantiate degrees Clint claimed to have received from Harvard University and Stanford University leading to the investors contacting the FBI Murchison was then arrested on charges of wire fraud having also forged documents including a supposed 6 4 million letter of credit from Chase Manhattan Bank 7 8 He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in prison in 1989 9 References Edit a b c Digital TV Market Listing for WUPA RabbitEars Info Archived from the original on February 11 2017 Retrieved January 26 2017 King Bill October 16 1980 New UHF Station OK d For Atlanta Area Viewers The Atlanta Constitution p 1 B 11 B Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com King Bill August 15 1980 Look Up In Sky It s A Bird It s The Atlanta Constitution p 8 B Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Zoglin Richard May 28 1981 WVEU Aiming For August 1 Screen Debut The Atlanta Constitution p 1 B Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com a b New Station Flying High At Night The Atlanta Constitution February 4 1982 p 1 B 9 B Archived from the original on August 4 2021 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Ingram Bruce November 23 1988 Radioactivity s 9 8 Mil 11 Station Acquisition Deal Goes Off Track Variety pp 83 94 ProQuest 1438517582 FBI Arrests Radio Exec Murchison For Wire Fraud PDF Radio amp Records November 11 1988 pp 1 34 Archived PDF from the original on September 13 2020 Retrieved February 6 2020 Macias Loretta November 17 1988 Financial officer charged with wire fraud San Angelo Standard Times San Angelo Texas p 1A 4A Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved July 14 2022 via Newspapers com Scheme to Buy Radio Stations Nets Man One Year The Atlanta Constitution March 30 1989 p 6 C Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com WVEU Television Factbook PDF Vol 52 1984 p 236 Archived PDF from the original on March 9 2021 Retrieved August 7 2022 via World Radio History Zoglin Richard September 30 1981 Manion Fragmented Into Soap Chips The Atlanta Constitution p 1 B 6 B Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Oliver Thomas December 4 1981 Scripto Hopes Lighters Hot Among Young The Atlanta Constitution p 1 C Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Greppi Michelle November 29 1981 Small storm brews over meteorologist s salary The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution p TV Week 42 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com a b c Shaw Russell October 1988 The Dawning of Independents Atlanta Business p 118 ProQuest 216433189 a b King Bill November 4 1983 Channel 69 gets video music The Atlanta Constitution p 4 B Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Prove it PDF Broadcasting February 13 1984 p 198 Archived PDF from the original on November 8 2021 Retrieved August 7 2022 Superstar TV goes off the air The Atlanta Constitution July 22 1983 p 2 D Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Creditors hearing held The Atlanta Constitution June 17 1983 p 2 D Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com King Bill February 8 1986 Quick Cuts The Atlanta Constitution p Weekend 19 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com King Bill December 4 1985 WVEU curtails music videos goes to salable programming The Atlanta Constitution p 7B Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Herndon Keith August 19 1985 The big bucks battle for top TV shows The Atlanta Constitution p 1C 14C Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Denberg Jeff November 7 1984 Hawks Bucks game is on TV The Atlanta Constitution p 3 D Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Denberg Jeff January 25 1985 Channel 69 cuts back on Hawks games The Atlanta Constitution p 1 C Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Denberg Jeff August 18 1985 Hawks return to WSB Warriors seek Sterling The Atlanta Constitution p 22D Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Denberg Jeff January 16 1986 Hawks set Omni ticket sales record The Atlanta Constitution p 3 D Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Rogers Prentis July 14 1991 CBS shuffles schedule to get Yankees Angels The Atlanta Constitution p E2 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Grappi Michele October 12 1986 Forget Debbie Dallas does viewers wrong The Atlanta Constitution p TV Week 62 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Kloer Phil January 8 1987 Atlanta s CBS affiliate not showing Morning Program The Atlanta Constitution p 11C Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com a b Greppi Michele July 1 1988 Morgus Attempts The Magnificent For Channel 69 The Atlanta Constitution p 1E 4E Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Bell Chuck August 11 1988 Auto Doctor Finds a New Vehicle Television The Atlanta Constitution p North DeKalb 8 9 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Bell Chuck July 23 1987 Eclectic programming transmits Channel 69 into Atlanta homes The Atlanta Constitution p DeKalb Extra 4 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Elie L Eric March 11 1989 As Fla Firm Agrees to Buy Channel 69 The Atlanta Constitution p 1E Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Yandel Gerry February 15 1990 Touch of Asia inhabits WVEU s wake up lineup The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Atlanta Georgia p E 10 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com NBC Gets Final N F L Contract While CBS Gets Its Sundays Off The New York Times December 21 1993 Archived from the original on July 12 2015 Retrieved June 22 2012 Kloer Phil May 24 1994 TV shake up in Atlanta Keep your remote control handy this fall The Atlanta Constitution p A1 A4 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Kloer Phil September 24 1994 Clearing up the local TV picture Price was right But will viewers follow CBS to Channel 69 The Atlanta Constitution p B1 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Kloer Phil September 27 1994 CBS switch n buy to cost megabucks The Atlanta Journal Constitution Atlanta Georgia p D10 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Scott Jeffry October 1 1994 Shaky TV deal turns sweet for lawyer Channel 69 s sale to CBS may net him 16 million The Atlanta Constitution p C3 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Kloer Phil November 8 1994 CBS pursuing a channel switch The Atlanta Constitution p C8 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Kloer Phil November 16 1994 Channel surfing CBS to flip from 69 to 46 The Atlanta Constitution p A1 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Kloer Phil November 17 1994 The networks go channel surfing The Atlanta Constitution p F1 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Kloer Phil December 15 1994 New Trek series may land on WVEU The Atlanta Constitution p F10 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Kloer Phil January 3 1995 WVEU likely to be Paramount property The Atlanta Constitution p D8 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com a b Zier Julie A May 15 1995 Viacom takes WVEU of CBS s hands PDF Broadcasting amp Cable p 49 Archived PDF from the original on November 8 2021 Retrieved August 7 2022 via World Radio History On Television O Grady will quit Blue for Fox deal The Atlanta Constitution December 5 1995 p D8 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Karlin Susan June 4 1996 UPN launches an attack on WB Net lies The Hollywood Reporter pp 1 8 97 ProQuest 2362065232 via ProQuest Rogers Prentis March 18 1998 WUPA finalizes deal to broadcast 11 Braves games in TBS absence The Atlanta Constitution p E2 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Rogers Prentis February 13 1999 UPA to carry 30 Braves games The Atlanta Constitution p D2 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Rogers Prentis February 26 2000 Braves will boost Turner South The Atlanta Constitution p D2 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Rogers Prentis March 26 1999 Ferrall ready for chance of a lifetime The Atlanta Constitution p D10 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Rogers Prentis August 1 2001 Hawks add UPN 69 as new local partner The Atlanta Constitution p D2 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com Davis Hudson Eileen September 29 2003 Atlanta Mediaweek pp 14 20 ProQuest 213635377 Seid Jessica January 24 2006 Gilmore Girls meet Smackdown CW Network to combine WB UPN in CBS Warner venture beginning in September CNN Money Archived from the original on March 16 2017 Retrieved August 3 2020 Carter Bill January 24 2006 UPN and WB to Combine Forming New TV Network The New York Times Archived from the original on October 17 2015 Retrieved February 22 2017 Eggerton John February 1 2004 Station Break Broadcasting amp Cable Archived from the original on April 10 2021 Retrieved August 7 2022 Nicholson Gilbert April 12 2004 WUPA Splits News Hour Mediaweek p 10 ProQuest 213650621 via ProQuest Eldredge Richard L August 13 2005 UPN dumps news for Foxx reruns The Atlanta Constitution p C2 Archived from the original on August 7 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 via Newspapers com The CW launching a localized news program at 10 p m in February Archived from the original on January 18 2020 Retrieved January 17 2020 Three CBS Owned CW Stations Add Nightly News January 17 2020 Archived from the original on January 29 2022 Retrieved January 17 2020 Ho Rodney March 20 2020 CW69 s localized Atlanta newscast on March 20 felt very Boston The Atlanta Journal Constitution Archived from the original on March 21 2020 Retrieved March 21 2020 Ho Rodney August 12 2020 CW69 brings back 10 p m Atlanta newscast after airing Boston simulcast for almost five months The Atlanta Journal Constitution Archived from the original on August 22 2020 Retrieved August 17 2020 Hill Michael P July 19 2022 CBS owned stations debut Now newscasts NewscastStudio Archived from the original on July 21 2022 Retrieved July 21 2022 Ho Rodney December 11 2019 Why is the Atlanta CW affiliate WUPA TV hiring two reporters when it has no news operation The Atlanta Journal Constitution Archived from the original on January 24 2022 Retrieved August 7 2022 Falcons Announce New Local TV Partner atlantafalcons com Archived from the original on October 19 2014 Retrieved August 10 2014 Raycom Sports and Tupelo Will Produce Preseason Games for 4 NFL Teams Sports Video Group May 2017 Archived from the original on February 12 2019 Retrieved February 11 2019 Roberson Doug Atlanta United announces TV partnership Atlanta Journal Constitution Archived from the original on February 23 2017 Retrieved February 22 2017 Analyzing the Atlanta United broadcast deal Dirty South Soccer SBNation Vox Media February 22 2017 Archived from the original on February 23 2017 Retrieved February 22 2017 Atlanta United Match vs FC Cincinnati to air on Peachtree TV Atlanta United FC March 17 2022 Archived from the original on March 21 2022 Retrieved August 6 2022 DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds PDF Federal Communications Commission May 23 2006 Archived from the original PDF on August 29 2013 Retrieved August 29 2021 External links EditOfficial website MeTVAtlanta com MeTV Atlanta official website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title WUPA amp oldid 1131916731, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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