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WTVM (channel 9) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with ABC.It is owned by Gray Media, which provides certain services to dual NBC/CW+ affiliate WLTZ (channel 38, owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting) [2] and Fox affiliate WXTX (channel 54, owned by American Spirit Media) under separate shared services agreements (SSAs).
Graduated from Baker High School in Columbus (1961) [30] Petra Kelly: Nov 29, 1947: Oct 1, 1992: Founder of German Green Party Graduated from Baker High School in Columbus (1966) [31] Mirabeau B. Lamar: Aug 16, 1798: Dec 19, 1859: 2nd President of the Republic of Texas: Lived in Columbus and founded the Columbus Enquirer newspaper [32] Ted J ...
The city of Columbus is located at the fall line of the Chattahoochee River, a place where the river drops 125 feet (38 m) in a stretch of 2.5 miles (4.0 km). This location was recognized early in the American Industrial Revolution as a prime location for waterpowered factories, and the river was first dammed in 1828 (by a predecessor to the now-breached City Mills Dam), beginning what became ...
The Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL combined statistical area includes two additional counties in Alabama. A 2013 census estimate showed 316,554 in the metro area, with 501,649 in the combined statistical area.
At the 2020 U.S. census, the Columbus area had a population of 328,883; in 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the Columbus MSA's population to be 324,110. [3] The Columbus metropolitan area is a component of the Columbus-Auburn-Opelika (GA-AL) combined statistical area, a trading and marketing region.
In February 2012, Mercer University announced it will partner with St. Francis and The Medical Center, a hospital in the Columbus Regional Healthcare System, to create a medical campus in Columbus; starting in the summer of 2012, the hospitals will provide clinical rotations for up to 80 third and fourth year students from Mercer's School of ...
The Aflac Building is a skyscraper located in Columbus, Georgia.Its construction was ordered in late November 1974, the groundbreaking ceremony took place January 4, 1975, and the tower was completed and occupied on December 19, 1975.
The Columbus Public Library, 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m 2) facility designed by architect Robert Stern, and the Muscogee County School District's Public Education Center (that opened in 2009) anchor MidTown's eastern boundary on Macon Road near I-185.