WVGA's fate was sealed in January 1992 when a plane crashed into its transmission tower and knocked the station off the air. Without enough money to rebuild the tower, Morris opted to fold the station's operations. This left southwest Georgia as one of the only areas on the East Coast without an ABC affiliate. Until WALB began carrying ABC on a subchannel in April 2011, most cable systems in the area piped in WTXL, with some areas carrying WSB-TV in Atlanta, WTVM in Columbus, or WCJB-TV in Gainesville, Florida instead.