Originally signed on the air on March 8, 1949 as a primary CBS affiliate on VHF channel 5, it was originally owned by Toledo, Ohio-based Fort Industry Company, which also operated WAGA radio (AM 590, now WDWD; and WAGA-FM 103.3, now WVEE), all colloquially called "Wagga". Fort Industry would later be renamed Storer Broadcasting after the company's founder, George B. Storer.
1949–1963[]
1949–1951[]
1951–1957[]
1957–1963[]
1963–1966[]
1966–1972[]
1972–1979[]
1979–1983[]
"Reach for the Stars on TV5" (1981-1982)
1981-closing shot of the anchor team/station logo
Storer ID
1983–1997[]
1983–1994[]
1983–1990[]
1983–1988
Legal ID bug (1984–1989)
1986–1989
1989–1990
WAGA Station ID & Special Presentation Bumper (1984)
"You and TV5, We've Got The Touch!" (1984-1985)
"TV5 Spirit, Oh Yes" (1987–1988)
"You Can Feel It on TV5" (1988-1989)
End card of TV5 Eyewitness News promo for evening anchor Brenda Wood (1988)
1990–1994[]
1990–1991
1991–1994
"Get Ready for TV5" (1989–1990)
"The Look of Atlanta is TV5, The Look is TV5" (1991–1992)
Channel 5 Eyewitness News promo featuring (from left to right) chief meteorologist Ken Cook, evening anchors John Marler, Brenda Wood and Jim Axel, and sports director Jeff Hullinger (1990)
1994–1997[]
Alternate logo
Another alternate logo
Numerical version
Thinner numerical version
Alternate thinner numerical version
Station ID with alternate logo (1994–1997)
Station ID seen during newscasts (1994–1997)
Eyewitness News logo (1994–1997)
On December 11, 1994, as part of a larger affiliation deal with New World Communications, WAGA-TV took the Fox affiliation from then-owned-and-operated WATL, which rejected CBS' affiliation offer, but instead signed an agreement with Tribune Broadcasting's WGNX, which was initially set to affiliate with The WB. Instead, WATL ended up taking the WB affiliation.
The station made a slight change to its 1983 logo, by closing off the lower hook of the '5'.