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WAGC-LD (channel 14) was a low-power television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Originally W42AO and then WAGC-LP in Athens, Georgia, its digital replacement was located at the North Druid Hills tower site in Atlanta. The station was most recently known to air "Broadcast News Network" (BNN), repeating infomercials in a news-report format. Channel 14 also had a long-standing application for a WSB-TV translator Rome, Georgia, the city of license for WPXA-TV, which used 14 until the forced analog shutdown in 2009 pushed it to 51. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) canceled WAGC-LD's license on July 15, 2022, due to the station's extended period of silence and failure to construct new facilities.

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Shepherds Lane Northeast,

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