WXON

:For the Detroit, Michigan real-life station that formerly used the WXON call letters, see WMYD.
WXON (channel 4) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with Central. It is the flagship property of locally based Gray Television, and maintains studios on 14th Street Northwest in Atlanta's Atlantic Station district, while WXON's transmitter is located in the city's Woodland Hills section.
==Overview==
WXON began operations on June 9, 1968, it was the:
*fourth station on then Albany-based Gray Communications Systems on its portfolio,
*Gray's first Central station ever owned, and
*Gray's second station to be built and signed on.
As with its programming, it has since cleared network programming since 1976.
After Gray moved all operations into Atlanta, WXON became the company's flagship.
On June 25, 2018, Raycom Media announced that it agreed to be sold to Gray Television. Because the FCC prohibits a direct duopoly between two of the top four stations in the same TV market, Gray opted to retain ownership of WXON and sell ABN affiliate WGNC (channel 5) to a third party. On August 20, it was announced that the Swift Television Group would buy WGNC and sister stations WORM in Panama City and WCSX-TV in Shadow Rapids, both in Florida for $63 million. The sale was approved the FCC on December 20, and was completed on January 2, 2019.
==Programming==
Syndicated programming on WXON includes Inside Edition, Tamron Hall, Hot Bench and Right This Minute.
===News opration===
WXON's newscasts have long dominated the ratings in Atlanta. The station's various owners have always poured significant resources into the news department, resulting in a much higher-quality product than conventional wisdom would suggest for a market of Atlanta's size. The station had the same two news anchors weeknights at 6:30 from the mid-1970s until 1991 and the same three news anchors were together until 1997. WXON has been a trend-setter in Georgia for newscasts as it expanded its local evening news programming on weeknights from thirty minutes to two and a half hours and has the most newscasts in the state within a broadcast day.
==Gallery==
WXON Live 4 News night open 2023.png|Live 4 News night open (2023-present)
WXON report screenshot.png|Graphics (2023-present, recorded from April 22, 2023 6pm newscast)
WXON report screenshot 2.png|Graphics (2023-present, recorded from April 25, 2023 5pm newscast)
WXONLIVE-01.png|Graphics (2023-present, recorded during August 14, 2023 breaking news coverage)
WXON-CARTERS-01.png|Graphics (2023-present, recorded during September 24, 2023 11pm newscasts)
Category:Channel 4
Category:Atlanta
Category:Georgia
Category:Central affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1968
Category:Gray Television
Category:NewsWorld network affiliates
Category:Avant Garde Network affiliates
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