WPCH-TV
TV station in Atlanta
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| 2024 | As a CW affiliate, WPCH-TV began carrying select Atlantic Coast Conference football games. |
| 2024 | Peachtree TV and the Atlanta Hawks reached a new agreement for the 2024-25 season to simulcast five games. |
| December 2024 | Gray Television announced an agreement with the Braves to sublicense 15 regular season games and exclusively broadcast 10 spring training games, with WPCH as the flagship station. |
| December 2023 | Peachtree TV and the Atlanta Hawks reached an agreement to broadcast 10 games during the 2023-24 season, primarily on Friday nights. |
| October 1 2023 | Gray launched the Peachtree Sports Network on subchannel 17.2, featuring minor league and high school sporting events. Court TV was moved to subchannel 17.3 on the WSB-TV transmitter. |
| September 1 2023 | WPCH officially became The CW affiliate in Atlanta, transitioning from its previous independent status. |
| August 30 2023 | Gray Television and Nexstar Media Group announced WPCH would become the new Atlanta affiliate of The CW on September 1, ending its 56-year independent status. |
| September 2022 | Gray Television announced that WPCH and WGCL would begin using Atlanta News First branding for news programming starting in October 2022. |
| December 1 2021 | Sale of WPCH and WGCL to Gray Television was completed, connecting the stations with sister stations in nearby Georgia markets. |
| October 1 2021 | Rogers Cable dropped WPCH from its channel lineup. |
| August 19 2021 | WPCH-TV turned off its ATSC 1.0 signal and activated its ATSC 3.0 transmitter on UHF 31, becoming a host for new ATSC 3.0 signals of multiple local stations including WSB-TV, WAGA-TV, WXIA-TV, and WGCL-TV (now WANF). |
| May 3 2021 | Gray Television announced its intent to purchase the Meredith Local Media division, including WPCH and WGCL, for $2.7 billion. |
| April 30 2020 | Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct, and EastLink dropped WPCH from their channel lineups. |
| 2019 | WPCH became the broadcast home of the College Park Skyhawks, the NBA G League affiliate of the Atlanta Hawks, starting with the 2019-20 NBA G League season. |
| September 11 2019 | Due to FCC auction 1000 and station repacking, WPCH-TV was required to change from channel 20 to channel 31. The channel change was delayed from September 6 to September 11 due to Hurricane Dorian. |
| 2018 | NorthernTel dropped WPCH and replaced it with the racing channel MAVTV. |
| June 14 2018 | Time Warner (renamed WarnerMedia) completed its merger with AT&T after a 1-year antitrust battle with the United States Department of Justice. |
| September 2017 | Subchannel 17.2 returned as a standard-definition simulcast of the main channel, carrying Court TV. |
| April 21 2017 | The sale of WPCH-TV to Meredith was finalized. |
| April 17 2017 | The sale of WPCH-TV received FCC approval. |
| February 20 2017 | Meredith announced its intention to acquire the license assets of WPCH-TV from Turner Broadcasting System for $70 million. |
| October 22 2016 | AT&T announced an offer to acquire Time Warner for $108.7 billion, a merger that would include WPCH-TV among its media properties. |
| July 14 2016 | WPCH announced an agreement with Kennesaw State University to carry Kennesaw State Owls college football games starting in the 2016 season. |
| February 28 2013 | Fox Sports South and SportSouth reached a deal with the Braves to acquire the 45-game package from WPCH, making Braves game telecasts cable-exclusive and ending the station's 40-year relationship with the team. |
| 2011 | Vidéotron reinstated WPCH on its channel lineup. Cogeco also dropped WPCH from its channel lineup. |
| April 3 2011 | Station began broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen without pillarboxing, marking a significant transition from previous standard definition broadcasts. The movie Forrest Gump was the first program transmitted in this new format. |
| 2010 | The station's analog transmitter (Turner Broadcasting tower) was dismantled, a condition of its land lease on property owned by Comcast. |
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