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MeTV affiliate in Perry, Georgia

On September 10, 1995, GOCOM Media announced that it had signed an agreement with Fox to move its affiliation to WGXA, effectively ending WPGA's tenure with the network at the end of that year (after only ten months as a Fox station). Shortly afterward, Register Communications signed an affiliation agreement to make WPGA the Macon market's new ABC affiliate. The affiliation swap took place on January 1, 1996, ending WGXA's fourteen year tenure with ABC. WPGA started a newscast in January 2001, but it was dropped in January 2002. In July 2007, WPGA TV changed its on air branding from "ABC 58" to "ABC Macon". In July 2007, Register Communications contracted with Independent News Network (INN) for news production which lasted until the original owner of INN filed bankruptcy in January 2009. and also objected to the network's decision to begin requiring its affiliates to pay an annual fee of $500,000 to carry its programming.

Upon becoming an independent station on January 1, 2010, WPGA began cherry picking select programs from the Retro Television Network (sharing the affiliation with sister station WPGA LP) in addition to shows from This TV and retained the station's existing syndicated programming. The station's disaffiliation from ABC resulted in a dispute with Cox Communications over its channel 6 slot, as Cox intended to drop WPGA in favor of WGXA DT2, a move that Register contended the provider does not have the right to make. On December 22, 2009, WPGA was granted a temporary restraining order requiring Cox to continue to carry the station on channels 6 and 706; however, the court later dismissed WPGA's case on April 30, 2010. Register filed an appeal; in light of this, a judge ordered Cox to leave WPGA on its existing channel slots until an appeals court heard the case. In addition, Register also filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the status of WPGA's channel placement on Cox. On July 12, 2011, Register filed a complaint in the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, seeking an injunction to prevent Cox from not only dropping WPGA, but from giving the channel 6 slot to WGXA DT2. However, Cox announced that it would go forward with the channel shuffle despite the complaint, as the previous court case authorized them to make the changes. In addition, the FCC ruled on December 5, 2011, that WPGA's contract with Cox rendered it a station that elected retransmission consent. Register Communications was delinquent on about $7.5 million in loans, property taxes and federal payroll taxes. Thus, a Bibb County court appointed Green Bull Georgia Partners—a single purpose entity set up by Candlewood Partners—as receiver for Register in April 2015. Radio Perry Inc. (debtor in possession) agreed to sell the station to Marquee Broadcasting in October 2019.

Marquee Broadcasting announced on February 15, 2023, that it would trade WPGA TV and WPGA LD to Gray Television in exchange for Gray's KNIN TV serving the Boise, Idaho, market. The station swap would complete a key objective for Gray by giving it a full service station in every market in Georgia, the company's home state (although Gray does not own stations in the Chattanooga or Jacksonville markets which each include some Georgia counties). The swap was consummated on May 1, 2023.

WPGA's broadcasts became digital only, effective February 24, 2009.