For years under Meredith, struggling WGCL was operated on a shoestring budget, with the smallest newsroom staff in the market.

Now, that the station has been taken over by Gray Television, that is expected to change.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Rodney Ho reports that Gray is planning to add at least 40 more people to the station in the coming months when all openings are filled.

“We’ve studied the head count in relationship to the number of hours of news we want to do and also in relationship to how we can best tell the stories in Atlanta,” said general manager Erik Shrader. “With that in mind, we plan to add over 40 people to the news department, which will constitute a sizeable jump relative to our head count under Meredith.”

The station for many years under Meredith was frequently third or fourth place in ratings in most dayparts, far behind leaders Channel 2 Action News (WSB-TV) and Fox 5 (WAGA-TV). It also suffered from frequent management changes, questionable hires, shifting strategies and slogans and high staff turnover.

The station has already added about a dozen new employees the past three months as part of this unprecedented hiring spree, a spokeswoman said.

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