In 1969, he sold his several radio stations to buy a struggling television station in Atlanta on Channel 17.

* April 8 – Hank Aaron became the all-time MLB home run leader with his 715th at Atlanta in front of a national television audience.

The Unclaimed Baggage Center has been featured several times in the media, including in The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, The Seattle Times and the travel / adventure television series Globe Trekker.

* NeNe Leakes, cast member of American reality television series The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Brokaw's television career began at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, followed by stints at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska and WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia.

Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

* WPCH-TV ( formerly WTBS ), official name of Peachtree TV, a television station in Atlanta, Georgia

Barbe was also a former professional singer, meeting her husband while touring with the Buddy Morrow Orchestra, and gained a bit of notoriety in later years appearing in commercials and on television shows based on her recognition as the “ Time Lady .” As a result of her extensive work, she was an early member and a Board member of the Atlanta branch of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Its headquarters and primary radio and television production facility is on Fourteenth Street in Midtown Atlanta, just west of the Downtown Connector in the Home Park neighborhood, north of Georgia Tech and south of Atlantic Station.

Following his playing career Dean became a well-known radio and television sportscaster, calling baseball for the Cardinals ( 1941 – 46 ), Browns ( 1941 – 48 ), Yankees ( 1950 – 51 ), and Atlanta Braves ( 1966 – 68 ) and nationally with Mutual ( 1952 ), ABC ( 1953 – 54 ), and CBS ( 1955 – 1965 ).

Along with fellow ECW alumnus Tommy Dreamer, Van Dam returned to WWF television on the July 9, 2001 episode of Raw in Atlanta, Georgia as a heel, and attacking WWF wrestlers Kane and Chris Jericho.

Harry Christopher " Chip " Caray III ( born 1965 ) is a television broadcaster for Fox Sports South and SportSouth's coverage of the Atlanta Braves baseball and Southeastern Conference basketball, and is an occasional radio broadcaster and co-host of the pre-game and post-game shows on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network.

Harry Christopher " Skip " Caray, Jr. ( August 12, 1939 – August 3, 2008 ) was an American sportscaster, best known for his long career as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball.

Tributes to Caray were given on all of the Atlanta television stations that evening and on WGST-AM the next morning.

Category: Atlanta, Georgia television personalities

In 2007's Atlanta, Reiser co-stars in a television comedy film centering around a man and a woman who meet at a funeral and can't seem to stay away from each other.

and on the night before the primary election, McKinney's father stated on Atlanta television that " Jews have bought everybody ... J-E-W-S ." Cynthia McKinney had been through a long contentious relationship with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and commentators such as Alexander Cockburn allege that money from out-of-state Jewish organizations, angered by her stand on Middle East issues, was key in her election defeat.

The NFL had a richer television contract at the time of the merger, in large part because of market exclusivity in such leading population centers as Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, and Baltimore, plus Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth, which were rapidly increasing in population and would emerge as media strongholds in the 1970s.

Category: Atlanta, Georgia television personalities

They brought their act to Atlanta, Georgia, in the early 1950s and performed a local television show featuring original skits and music called " The Merry Mutes ".

A & E is a United States-based cable and satellite television channel with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford.

The decision to fire Mariucci came after a 27 – 7 blowout loss on national television on Thanksgiving Day to the Atlanta Falcons.

All other radio and television stations and cable TV systems in metro Atlanta must monitor these two stations at all times with their EAS equipment.

* WSB-TV, a television station ( virtual channel 2 / digital 39 ) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States

* 1949 – WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.

Purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System.

* Lakewood / Fort McPherson ( MARTA station ), a passenger rail station located in Atlanta, Georgia

Eventually, this led to an appearance on the radio station WSB AM in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority's Airport station is located just barely in Clayton.

** Five Points ( MARTA station ), Atlanta, Georgia

Heflin was first settled in 1882 as a station on the railroad line from Atlanta.

WSTP, " Newsradio 1490 ", is an AM news / talk radio station whose programming also includes broadcasts of Atlanta Braves baseball games and those of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, as well as some National Football League games.

McLendon was noted for his strange sense of humor and this is true with the enigma of the name " Radio Atlanta ", which he chose for a station broadcasting to the UK.

After attending A & M he moved to Atlanta and became a fan of WRNG-AM, Atlanta ’ s first talk radio station.

Four hours after the Atlanta shootings, Barton committed suicide at a gas station in Acworth, Georgia.

On April 2, 2009, Cornell took over Atlanta Rock station, Project 961, WKLS.

Sebring, incognito, picked Abagnale up and drove him to an Atlanta bus station where he took a Greyhound bus to New York, and soon thereafter, a train to Washington, D. C. Abagnale bluffed his way through an attempted capture by posing as an FBI agent after being recognized by a motel registration clerk.

The portion of the building between Terminal North and Terminal South includes the Atrium, which is a large, open seating area featuring concessionaires, a bank, conference rooms, an interfaith chapel, and offices on the upper floors with the main security checkpoint, the Ground Transportation Center and a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority ( MARTA ) train station on other levels.

Railroad station at Atlanta NY, April 2011

The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI ( AM ) in Atlanta.

There is also a separate single, " Come Arabian " ( a cover of 311 song " Come Original "), which references a morning show on the former WNNX, an Atlanta radio station.

Valerie Jackson hosts Between the Lines each weekend on the WABE-FM radio stadion, the Atlanta Public Broadcasting station.

MARTA operates almost exclusively in Fulton and DeKalb counties, with bus service to two destinations in Cobb county ( Six Flags Over Georgia and the Cumberland Transfer Center next to the Cumberland Mall ) and a single rail station in Clayton County at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

The deepest station in the MARTA system is the Peachtree Center Station which is located in a hard-rock tunnel, 120 feet ( 36 meters ) beneath downtown Atlanta, where the highest hills in Atlanta soar to 1100 feet ( 300 meters ) above sea level.