WGA-TV

''This is an article about a television station currently known as WGA-TV. For the television station that formerly used the WGA-TV callsign, see WGNB-TV.''

WGA-TV, virtual and digital UHF channel 33, is a Lucasrio Television owned-and-operated station licensed to Gameria City, Minecraftia. The station is owned by Lucasrio Media.

The station is famous for its Dogwood flower-style logo, a symbol of Gameria City being one of the big areas where Dogwood flowers are imported from Vancouver, and the logo was inspired from that station's Global O&O and West Coast flagship CHAN-DT.

Early history
The station signed-on in 1981 as WGAM-TV, Gameria City's third independent station, which was preceded by WGMR-TV (channel 20, now Fox affiliate WGFX-TV) when its ABC affiliation was displaced by the sign-on WMFC-TV (channel 2) in 1980, and the sign-on of WRBQ-TV (channel 35, later an ITV affiliate in 1989, an Ion Television affiliate in 1998; reverted back to independent in 2013) in 1966.

It went to being the leading independent for most of its stint as an independent that in 1986, the station immediately jumped into talks for affiliation with the fledgling Fox Broadcasting Company. Fox almost accepted a deal, until Fox cut a group deal with the then-rebranded Sinclair Broadcast Group (formerly the Chesapeake Television Corporation) led to the network finalizing its affiliation to Sinclair-owned WGMR-TV, which lost its ABC affiliation to WMFC six years before. During that time, Welter Communications (WelterCom) bought all of Continental Broadcasting's cluster (including WGAM-TV, WWTH-TV in Welterhampton, and WCXI-TV in Endreaville).

In 1989, WGAM agreed for a secondary affiliation with the ITV network went effective in Gameria City, after charter affiliate WRBQ-TV declined to broadcast Children's ITV programming and other news programs apart from TV-am's Good Morning Britain and the ITN News at Ten. Even after WRBQ lost its ITV affiliation to upstart WNT-TV (channel 13), WGAM continued to air CITV and the News at Ten (later the Nightly News and the News at 10:30; reverted back to 10:00) until the digital transition, when WNT-TV moved the programs to its "Local 13 24/7" subchannel.

In 1999, the station changed its call letters to WGA-TV to align with its radio sister WGA radio, which WelterCom bought from CBS Radio/Infinity Broadcasting two years before.

Analog-to-digital transition
WGA-TV shut down its analog signal, on UHF channel 33, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations will transition to digital television under federal mandate. The station moved from UHF channel 60 (which was among the high-band channels (52-69) that were being removed from broadcast use) to its former analog UHF channel 33 for post-transition operations.

News branding(s)

 * NewsLine 33 (1986-1991)
 * Channel 33 News (1991-2012)
 * Lucasrio 33 News (2012-2021)
 * LTV33 News (2021-present)

News theme(s)

 * Hello News - Gari Media Group (1986-1991)
 * WWL News - Stephen Arnold Music (1991-2005)
 * Convergence - Stephen Arnold Music (2005-2011)
 * Impact - 615 Music (2011-2015)
 * Overture - Stephen Arnold Music (2015-2020)
 * Guardian - Stephen Arnold Music (2020-present)

Notable current on-air staff

 * Katie Peterson - morning and noon anchor (2020-present)
 * Ashley Jordan - evening anchor (1986-present)
 * Gary Shaw - evening co-anchor (2022-present)

Notable former on-air staff

 * John Robertson - evening anchor (1986-2022, now at WWTH-DT in Welterhampton)