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| - WJCL began broadcasting on July 18, 1970 as an ABC affiliate. Owned by former Savannah mayor Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr. (whose initials provided the station's call sign), WJCL marked many "firsts". At that time, it built the tallest tower in the market rising some 46 m (one hundred fifty feet) above sea level. Color film and videotape were introduced to the Savannah market by WJCL. It claims to have been the first station in the area to televise a live event (President Richard Nixon's Savannah visit and ride in a parade on Skidaway Road) and broadcasting in stereo. WJCL-TV and radio were both run by Lewis Broadcasting's Executive Vice President, J. Fred Pierce, from 1972 until WJCL's first sale in 1999.
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| - WJCL began broadcasting on July 18, 1970 as an ABC affiliate. Owned by former Savannah mayor Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr. (whose initials provided the station's call sign), WJCL marked many "firsts". At that time, it built the tallest tower in the market rising some 46 m (one hundred fifty feet) above sea level. Color film and videotape were introduced to the Savannah market by WJCL. It claims to have been the first station in the area to televise a live event (President Richard Nixon's Savannah visit and ride in a parade on Skidaway Road) and broadcasting in stereo. WJCL-TV and radio were both run by Lewis Broadcasting's Executive Vice President, J. Fred Pierce, from 1972 until WJCL's first sale in 1999. In 1982, WJCL swapped affiliations with WSAV-TV (due to the latter's action) and became an NBC affiliate. However, a mere four years later they returned to ABC in 1986. When Lewis purchased WNOK television and radio stations in Columbia, South Carolina in 1977, he quickly sold off WNOK radio (undisclosed price) and immediately changed the television call sign to WLTX. In 1982, he purchased WYEA television in Columbus, Georgia from Aflac and changed its calls to WLTZ to follow a similar call letter format used for his station in South Carolina's capitol, Columbia (LT meaning Lewis Television). In the early 1990s, Lewis sold two of his radio stations, WSTZ-FM and WSTZ-AM in Jackson, Mississippi for an undisclosed price. In 1999, Lewis Broadcasting sold WJCL-TV to Grapevine Communications which has since merged with Piedmont Television. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Lewis decided to divest an even larger portion of his media interests and sold four of his combined eight owned and/or previously owned radio and television stations: WJCL-TV, WTGS, WJCL-FM, and WLTX. On May 1, 2007, Lewis broadcasting entered into an agreement with SagamoreHill Broadcasting to sell off its last remaining television station, WLTZ. In 2001, WJCL partnered with Carleton Public Relations, Inc. to produce the show ABC 22 LawCall. Radio on-air personality Lexie Kaye was hired by Carleton PR as producer of the weekly live, legal call-in show. The show featured Mike Avery as host along with attorneys from the Carter & Tate fir with a weekly guest and various topics. This was the first legal call-in show in the nation to use the "LawCall" name. The show aired until June 2006 on Sunday nights from 11 to 11:30. Since Lewis' sale of the station in 1999, it has been bought twice. WJCL and WTGS were most recently sold to New Vision Television and Parkin Broadcasting respectively. The station unveiled a new blog-based website in June 2007. On November 2, 2007, the station announced on its website that, with the recent acquisition of WJCL by New Vision Broadcasting, a brand new website was on the way. The revamped website (operated largely in-house with technology borrowed from Broadcast Interactive Media) featured the usual news, weather, and sports along with streaming video. In January 2009, the websites of WJCL and several of its sister stations migrated to the Inergize Digital Network platform (with KOIN in Portland, Oregon being the first station in the New Vision group to use). The station is the setting of the second season of the TV Guide Network show Making News which began airing on June 4, 2008. WJCL's broadcasts have been digital-only since February 17, 2009.
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