 In regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest newscast output among Atlanta's broadcast television stations.For most of its first three decades on the air, WAGA-TV was Atlanta's second-highest rated station.From the 1970s to early 2009, it had to fend off a spirited challenge from WXIA-TV, with the two stations regularly trading the number-two position in the market behind longtime leader WSB-TV.