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WXIA-TV
TV station in Atlanta
WXIA-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WATL (channel 36). The two stations share studios at One Monroe Place on the north end of midtown Atlanta; WXIA-TV's transmitter is located in the city's east section, near Kirkwood. Atlanta is the largest television market where the NBC station is not owned and operated by the network.[2]
WXIA-TV is popularly known within the Atlanta metropolitan area by its longtime on-air brand, 11 Alive, which the station has used since 1976.
History
[edit]What is known today as WXIA-TV originally signed on the air September 30, 1951, at 5 p.m., as WLTV on VHF channel 8. It was the first full time ABC affiliate for Atlanta, taking it over from WSB-TV and WAGA-TV (channel 5), both originally primary NBC and CBS affiliates respectively that previously shared ABC programming as a secondary affiliation. It was the third Atlanta television station to sign-on after WSB-TV and WAGA, all signing on within a three-year time frame.
Owned and operated by a group of Atlanta businessmen organized as Broadcasting, Inc., WLTV was indirectly born from the 1950 merger of Atlanta's two newspaper
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Politan referred comments to HLN, which released a statement: "Vinnie has been a tremendous asset to HLN over the years. We thank him and wish him only the best."
He currently hosts "HLN Now" from 2 to 5 p.m. weekdays. Other shows he has hosted for HLN in the past: "On The Case," "After Dark," and "Making it in America."
Politan graduated Stanford University as an undergraduate and received his law degree at Seton Hall School of Law. He started an an assistant prosecutor in the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, then practiced as a private attorney before switching to journalism.
He worked as as reporter and anchor for Central Florida News 13 in Orlando in the early 2000s and covered the disputed 2000 presidential election during the "hanging chad" controversy. He joined Atlanta-based Court TV (now TruTV) in 2001 as a correspondent and host, then oversaw the TruTV's court-based "In Session" programming, which went away last year. He split time between TruTV and HLN from 2009 until 20013. For a time, he also hosted a morning show on Sirius/XM radio.
Over the years, he has covered many of the highest-profile court cases including trials of Robert Blake, Lindsay Lohan, Casey Anthony, Jodi Arias and George Zimmerman.
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