and the maintaining of FCC regulations. Most of WAGT's managerial staff were dismissed and other employees were reassigned to different positions. Media General had initially intended to move WAGT into an expanded wing of WJBF's studios on Reynolds Street in downtown Augusta. However, that facility, built in 1956, was unable to sustain the expansion needed to house both stations. Media General instead chose to renovate a former Barnes & Noble store at Augusta West to serve as a joint headquarters for both stations. The new facility was expected to be completed by April 2011, but was ultimately pushed back until October. Acquisition by Gray, Media General lawsuit On September 14, 2015, Schurz announced that it would sell its broadcasting assets to Gray Television, owner of WRDW-TV. Gray announced that it would merge the two stations' operations and offer WAGT's broadcast spectrum during the FCC's upcoming spectrum incentive auction. Under normal conditions, Gray would not be able to own both stations. Not only are they the four highest-rated stations in the Augusta market, but Augusta only has five full-power stations—not enough to legally permit a duopoly in any case. Gray requested a waiver of the FCC's duopoly rules to own the two stations temporarily until the completion of the auction later in 2016, but proposed to shut down WAGT entirely upon closure of the acquisition so it would not technically be operating more than one of the top four stations in the market. In January 2016, Gray filed for special temporary authority for WAGT to shut down its full-power signal so it could be replaced on the same technical facilities and UHF channel 30 by a recently acquired low-power station, WRDW-CD. Presumably, Gray planned to move NBC programming to WRDW-CD after the completion of the sale. The FCC approved the sale and Gray's waiver to the duopoly rules on February 12, 2016. However, the FCC ordered Gray to continue operating WAGT separately until the auction was complete, and not enter into any joint sales arrangements with WRDW or any other station. Upon the closing of the deal on February 16, 2016, Gray took control of WAGT; the Media General-produced newscasts were replaced by simulcasts of WRDW's newscasts.Gray Closes Schurz Acquisition, Related Transactions, And Incremental Term Loan Facility Press Release, Gray Television, Retrieved 16 February 2016. The same day, Gray issued a statement accusing WJBF of "[refusing] to agree to a smooth