 WAGA began serving as the primary television station for the Atlanta Falcons upon the team's inception in 1966, under CBS's contractual television rights to the pre-AFL merger National Football League.The station carried most regional or national Falcons game telecasts aired by CBS until its contractual rights to the National Football Conference concluded in 1993.However, the station's December 1994 switch to Fox allowed WAGA to retain its status as the Falcons' unofficial "home" station.