News Operation
Within a few months of signing-on, WGXA surged to second place behind WMAZ because its news product was far more modern than that of WCWB. For a brief time in the 1990s as an ABC affiliate, its weeknight 6 o'clock broadcast was repeated at 10 on then UPN affiliate WGNM. On January 5, 2008, it began airing a weekend edition of its 10 o'clock show. Starting March 1, 2010, there were new weeknight 7 and 11 o'clock broadcasts (along with weekday morning Good Morning America weather cut-ins) added to WGXA-DT2 which required an expansion of the news department and personnel. Those newscasts have a separate anchor team but utilize the same reporting, weather, and sports personnel.
On the same day, the main channel also launched a weeknight newscast at 5:30. In a report in the May 28, 2010 edition of The Macon Telegraph, it was announced that a talk show hosted by Kenny Burgamy, Charles Richardson, and Liz Fabian would no longer be airing its weekday morning show on WPGA-TV and WPGA-FM 100.9 after July 20. The morning news, talk, information, and entertainment show moved to the WGXA stations as well as WMAC-AM 940 on July 26. Known as NewsTalk Central, the program formerly aired on weekdays from 6 to 7 on WGXA-DT2 and from 6 to 9 on the main signal. The Good Morning America weather cut-ins continue to be seen. The weeknight news anchors also serve as reporters. Starting in summer of 2012, WGXA added a 6 p.m newscast on ABC 16 - WGXA DT2; On October 1, 2012, WGXA launched a new morning newscast titled "WGXA Morning News" (replacing their former news/talk program, "NewsTalk Central" which ended September 29, 2012).
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