 The station signed-on in November 1984 as the market's second independent television outlet after Opelika, Alabama's WSWS-TV (channel 66).Less than three years later on April 5, 1987, it became a Fox affiliate and has remained with the network ever since the network's prime-time launch.The station is the network's longest serving Georgia affiliate after Fox dropped WATL for New World-owned WAGA-TV in Atlanta.