11 Alive Atlanta

11 Alive known by its callsign as ‘WXIA TV’ is an NBC-affiliate TV broadcaster delivering local & regional news, traffic updates and weather forecast to the communities of Atlanta, Georgia. It also covers news for Atlanta’s local sports teams: Braves, Falcons, Hawks, and Dreams. Apart from mainstream reporting, 11Alive also do investigative and crime reporting from all over Georgia. To handle and show a clear stance against controversies and fake-news, the channel has a dedicated ‘VERIFY’ news team to validate the authenticity of viral news on social media.

The motto of the Channel 11 is “Where Atlanta Speaks”. The network is owned by TEGNA Inc; the company provides trusted and reliable content by narrating motivating stories, delivering unparalleled and radical solutions via TEGNA Marketing Solutions for advertisers, and by conducting empowering inquiries.

Watch 11 Alive News Live Streaming

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Kindly refer to the live stream schedule for WXIA TV.

Channel’s Overview

WXIA-TV hit the air for the first time on 30 Sep 1951 as an ABC-affiliate channel with the call-letters WLTV on Virtual CH 8. The channel’s original owner was a Broadcasting Inc, a company formed by a group of businessmen in Atlanta.

Some significant changes to the station occurred when Federal Communication Commission lifted a ban on new Television broadcasters in April 1952 with the Sixth Report and Order. After that, Channel 8 shifted to Channel 11 at Atlanta; the change didn’t happen until Sep 1953, when Crosley Broadcasting Corporation purchased the network from Broadcasting Inc. On 3 March 1953, Crosley flipped the calls from WLTV to WLWA.

Station History

In 1962, WIBC Inc, by a business from Indianapolis, acquired the ownership rights of WLWA. However, the station’s ownership once again shifted to Pacific & Southern Broadcasting in 1968, under which WLWA transformed its calls to WQXI (currently WXIA). Later, the media company Pacific & Southern partnered with Combined Communications, and the channel once again changed its call-letters to WXIA-TV on 25 December 1973, which the network is using till today. Combined Broadcasting merged with Gannett Company in 1979; it was the history’s largest media merger at that time.

Channel 11 News Atlanta traded affiliation partners with WSB-TV on 1 September 1980, since then it has been broadcasting NBC content. In August 1994, Gannett Company decided to remove 11 Alive brand; though the moniker was so famous in Atlanta, the company had to restore it within the one month on viewer’s demand.

WXIA-TV Profile

Gannet Company divided into two parts, one focusing the print media and the other one specialized in digital and broadcast media called Tegna Inc., both WATL and WXIA were inherited by the latter one.

WXIA-TV works along with its MyNetworkTV-affiliate sister channel WATL. Both networks share the same studios on the extreme north of midtown Atlanta at One Monroe Place, whereas its transmitter lies in the city’s east side, close to Kirkwood. WXIA-TV is mostly known by its brand name 11 Alive in the metropolitan area of Atlanta; the channel has been using this brand since 1976.

Currently, Channel 11 News Atlanta employs over 200 people in the sectors of news, production, engineering, accounting, promotion, programming, sales, administrative support, and Web designing & development. Being aired in October 1998, WXIA-DT was the only TV channel in Atlanta region to telecast all regional news transmission in HD.

Affiliate Networks

• NBC
• Quest
• Justice Network

Availability of the Station

On Cable:

The Chanel is available to watch at CH 6 on both Charter Spectrum and Comcast Xfinity.

On the Internet:

Viewers can get 11Alive live streaming on the internet as well via the official website/app of the channel.

Milestones

• 1974: 11Alive changed its call-signs
• 1980: WXIA got NBC affiliation
• 2006: Channel 11 News Atlanta started HD coverage, plus it got WATL-TV
• 2009: The station inaugurated Clarkdale Elementary Help Desk

News Team

The news team consists of anchors, reporters and journalists.

Producers:

Stormtrackers & Weather App

11 Alive weather app has a lot more exciting features for the users, such as:

• A 240-meter-High resolution weather radar system
• HD satellite cloud images
• Future radar helps the user see about upcoming sever weathers
• 11Alive weather app also contains s user-friendly feature of providing accurate and authentic weather reports with hourly or daily forecasts updated by their computer models.

Stormtracks team is composed of senior meteorologist and weather forecast experts:

News App

Channel’s News app features the latest breaking news, traffic alerts and weather conditions in the Atlanta region. The App provides the latest news headlines impacting the area, live videos from newscasts, dynamic radar, interactive weather, and local events. Android users can download the app on google store, whereas iPhone users can get it on the apple store. Users can also watch 11 alive live streaming on this app.

Programs

Coverage Map: