page_title: WJBF
section_title: Augusta West, management of WAGT
hierarchical_section_title: WJBF / History / Augusta West, management of WAGT
caption_attribution_description: English: w:WJBF Television Park studio sign in Augusta, Georgia
context_page_description: WJBF, virtual channel 6, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Augusta, Georgia, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. WJBF's studios are located in Television Park, near the Augusta West Mall in Augusta; and its transmitter is located in Beech Island, South Carolina.
context_section_description: In October 2009, Schurz Communications announced that it would enter into joint sales and shared services agreements with WJBF, meaning that WAGT's news operation and advertising sales department would be taken over by Media General. Most of WAGT's managerial staff were dismissed, and other employees were reassigned to different positions.
  Media General had initially intended to move WAGT into an expanded wing of the WJBF building in downtown Augusta. Both WJBF and WAGT have had a longstanding presence in the downtown area. Channel 6's facility on Reynolds Street was built around 1956, and channel 26 moved into its Broad Street building, a converted theatre, in 1981. However, it soon became apparent that WJBF's facility could not sustain the expansion necessary to house both stations.  Media General instead chose to remodel what had been a big-box store to contain the stations. The new facility, located at the Augusta West Shopping Center in a former Barnes & Noble retail location, was opened in October 2011. While the two stations shared some internal services, WAGT's news operation and sales department operated autonomously from that of WJBF, and the two stations also produced competing news programming from their dedicated areas of the facility.
  The SSA was disbanded on February 16, 2016 after the acquisition of WAGT by Gray Television, owner of WRDW-TV. Gray accused Media General of "[refusing] to agree to a smooth transition of personnel [from WAGT]" and not allowing them to move along to the station's new owner, as they fell under the employment of WJBF due to the shared services agreement. On February 26, 2016, an injunction was granted against Gray by Media General, claiming that Gray violated the SSA by unwinding it following its purchase of WAGT. The agreement was to last through 2020, and stipulated that all future owners of the station would remain subject to it.
caption: The exterior of the new Television Park at Augusta West.
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