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WGXA company history timeline

1982

The station first signed on the air on April 21, 1982 as an ABC affiliate.

1994

The station was purchased by GOCOM Communications in July 1994.

When Fox assumed the broadcast rights to the National Football Conference television package from CBS in 1994, WGXA carried Fox's NFL telecasts on Sunday afternoons until December 1994, three months before WPGA-TV (channel 58) signed on as the area's first Fox affiliate.

1996

The affiliation swap took place on January 1, 1996, ending WGXA's fourteen-year tenure with ABC.

2014

On March 24, 2014, Frontier Radio Management reached a deal to sell WGXA to the Sinclair Broadcast Group for $33 million; the sale was completed on September 3, 2014.

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1982
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