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The station first signed on the air on October 26, 1969, as WHMA-TV. [6] Originally operating as a primary CBS and secondary NBC affiliate, the station was initially owned by the Anniston Broadcasting Company, which was run by members of the family of Harry M. Ayers, who also owned the Anniston Star newspaper and local radio station WHMA (1390 AM and 100.5 FM, the FM station is now Atlanta ...
James Max Spann Jr. (born June 6, 1956) is a television meteorologist, TikTok, and podcast host based in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] He currently works for WBMA-LD (ABC 33/40), Birmingham's ABC affiliate. Spann has worked in the field since 1978. [2] He also hosts the podcast WeatherBrains which he started in 2006. [3] [4] [5]
WBMA-LD (channel 58) is a low-power television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with ABC.It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68) and Homewood-licensed CW affiliate WTTO (channel 21); Sinclair also operates Bessemer-licensed WDBB (channel 17), which serves as a full satellite station of WTTO, under a local marketing ...
John Oldshue is a former meteorologist [1] and storm chaser for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1997 to 2011, before he retired to run a small business.He won an Emmy award for coverage of the Tuscaloosa tornado on December 16, 2000, alongside meteorologist James Spann.
40 WGWW: Heroes & Icons on 40.1 ABC on 40.2 via WBMA-LD: Bessemer: 17 WDBB: The CW on 17.1 ABC on 17.2 via WBMA-LD: Birmingham: 6 WBRC: Fox: Birmingham: 10 WBIQ: PBS: Birmingham: 13 WVTM-TV: NBC: Birmingham: 42 WIAT: CBS: Birmingham: 68 WABM: MyNetworkTV on 68.1 ABC on 68.2 via WBMA-LD: Demopolis: 41 WIIQ: PBS: Dothan: 4 WTVY: CBS on 4.1 ...
On May 31, 1970, when WAPI-TV formally removed CBS programming and became the exclusive NBC affiliate for the Birmingham market, WCFT-TV became an exclusive CBS affiliate; WBMG in Birmingham (which had been affiliated with the network since it signed in October 1965, in a similar split arrangement with NBC) and WHMA-TV (channel 40) in Anniston (which had been an exclusive CBS affiliate since ...
The following is a list of television news anchors who have worked in Birmingham, Alabama. ... This page was last edited on 13 October 2023, at 00:05 (UTC).
By 1997, syndicated reruns of Sanford and Son attracted more viewers than WBMG's evening news, and a new Birmingham TV station pushed channel 42 into fourth place in news. When Media General acquired the Park group in 1997, it planned a major overhaul of the long-struggling station. General manager Eric Land fired all of WBMG's on-air ...