Original sentence: After having been established as a radio station, WRBL was originally sold to the Junior Chamber of Commerce for $250.He sold it to TCS Partners, who, in turn, sold it to Spartan Radiocasting Company, until it sold WRBL to Media General, its current owners, in 2000.In 1931, after changing owners several more times, it was sold to Jim Woodruff, who was killed in a car wreck in the 1970s.Its transmitter, located in Cusseta, Georgia, once held the record as the tallest man-made structure on the face of the earth.WRBL began as a radio station in the 1920's and broadcast their first signal from a dressing room in the Three Arts Theater, which used to sit across from the Medical Center in Columbus, Georgia.WRBL is the second oldest television station in Columbus, having first gone on the air a mere few weeks after WTVM which debuted on October 6, 1953 as WDAK-TV on channel 28
Edited sentence: He sold it to TCS Partners, who, in turn, sold it to Spartan Communications.It is the only major station in Columbus to have never changed its primary affiliation.It was owned by Jim Woodruff along with WRBL radio (AM 1420, now WRCG, and FM 102.9, now WVRK).Its transmitter, located in Cusseta, Georgia, once held the record as the tallest man-made structure on Earth.Originally on channel 4, it moved to channel 3 in 1960 as part of a three-city swap which saw WTVM move to channel 9 and WTVY in Dothan, Alabama move to channel 4.Spartan merged with current owner Media General in 2000.The station has always been a CBS affiliate owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with CBS Radio, but shared ABC with WTVM until WYEA-TV (channel 38, now WLTZ) signed on in 1970 and took the NBC affiliation, leaving WTVM with ABC.The station is owned by Media General, with studios in Columbus.WRBL is the second oldest television station in Columbus, having first gone on the air on November 15, 1953--just over a month after NBC affiliate WDAK-TV (channel 28, now WTVM on channel 9).Woodruff owned the station until his death in a car crash in the 1970s