The two stations share studios on Stuart Avenue in Albany; WALB's transmitter is located east of Doerun, along the Colquitt–Worth county line.

When the radio station's studios were built back in 1953, Stuart Avenue was a dirt road running through a pecan grove.

As the first television outlet in Albany, it was a primary NBC affiliate with secondary relations with ABC and DuMont.

[2] WALB was a major beneficiary of a quirk in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s plan for allocating stations.

WALB dropped the "-TV" suffix to its call sign in 1993, even though channel 10 and its radio sister had gone their separate ways three decades earlier.

[2] As a result of flash flooding caused by Tropical Storm Alberto, WALB stayed on-the-air with non-stop 24-hour coverage to alert citizens and provide a vital link between the public and government agencies.

[7] Raycom already owned Fox affiliate WFXL, and could not keep both stations because Albany has only four full-power stations—not enough to legally permit a duopoly.

[8] On June 1, 2006, a military chopper traveling from Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah to Fort Rucker in Alabama for a training mission hit a guy wire connected to WFXL's 1,000-foot-tall (300 m) tower resulting in a crash.

While the tower remained standing and intact (other than the guy wire), the station was forced to temporarily cease its over-the-air signal although broadcasts on cable were not affected.

[10] The subchannel officially joined ABC on April 27, 2011;[11] prior to this, WTXL-TV had been carried on most cable systems in Southwestern Georgia since November 1992, when a failed sale to WTXL's then-owner ET Broadcasting forced WVGA to initially cease operations (some cable customers received ABC programming via the network's affiliates in Columbus, Atlanta, and Gainesville).

[citation needed] Raycom affiliated 26 stations including WALB for multiple years with Bounce TV at the network's fall 2011 launch.

Gray had already owned WSWG-TV, which had served as a semi-satellite of WCTV in Tallahassee, and as such, Gray was required to sell either WALB-TV or WSWG due to FCC ownership regulations prohibiting common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market (as well as more than two stations in any market).

For most of WSWG's early tenure as a CBS affiliate, it served as a semi-satellite of WCTV in Tallahassee and simulcasted that station's newscasts with no Southwestern Georgia-specific segments.

The change made it the second station in the market to perform the upgrade (WSWG's simulcast of WCTV's news programs was first back on August 3, 2009).

More specifically, this includes the second hour of Today in Georgia, its midday show at noon, as well as weeknight newscasts at 6 and 11.

[20][21] Weekend newscasts are simulcast on both of WALB's NBC and ABC channels although there can be a delay or pre-emption on one due to network obligations.

[22] The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WALB shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.