Station identification from 1986 for WVGA. Channel 44, based in Valdosta, was the first standalone ABC station for southwest Georgia. It initially hit the airwaves in 1980.
The channel went off the air in August 1988 when a small plane crashed into its transmission tower and resumed broadcast in January 1989. WVGA went off the air permanently in 1994. Valdosta got a new TV station, WGVP, a WB affiliate in 1995.
