[Jeffhs]

Television station WAGA in Atlanta was built in the '50s from scratch. I don't know how much it cost to get it on the air, but my best guess is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars (1950s dollars, that is; today it would probably be in the millions). There was an article in, I believe, Radio-TV Experimenter magazine some time in the '60s, titled "The Stately Station That Home-Brew Built", that described how the station was constructed. I don't have the article anymore (threw out the magazine years ago), but I still remember the details from it. The station was the CBS affiliate for the Atlanta area and operated on channel 5; it is now affiliated with FOX. The CBS affiliation went to a UHF station in Atlanta called WGCL-TV on channel 46.