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In 2009, WBRC became a founding member station of the Raycom News Network, a service created to allow the sharing of news resources among the four Raycom-owned television stations that serve Alabama – including NBC affiliate WSFA in Montgomery, NBC affiliate WAFF in Huntsville and ABC affiliate WTVM in Columbus, Georgia (the latter of which ...
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Andalusia: Dozier: 2 10 WDIQ: PBS: satellite of WBIQ ch. 10 Birmingham PBS Kids on 2.2, Create on 2.3, World on 2.4 : Birmingham
One of its first employees was Bill Bolen, who had worked at WSGN radio and later left to spend 41 years at WBRC; he recalled channel 42 as "primitive". [37] By 1977, the news staff numbered four people, while WBRC and WAPI-TV each had 20 or more employees in their news departments. [33] Few people watched.
WERC was the first station in Birmingham to carry an all-talk format. Weekdays begin with a local news and interview show, Alabama's Morning News with JT and Leah.The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated shows, largely from co-owned Premiere Networks: The Glenn Beck Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Michael Berry Show, The Jesse Kelly ...
WBRC began airing the second hour of GMA in the early 1980s and only began airing the entire show in 1989 after York retired. After retiring from broadcast television, York was a weekly columnist for his hometown newspaper, The Hoover Gazette, from 2006 until shortly before the newspaper's demise in 2007. York won a regional Emmy Award in 1995.
Sinclair moved to end the WDBB newscasts that December, putting 25 to 30 news staff and another 10 to 15 production employees out of work. [ 21 ] On September 1, 1996, WBRC became the new Fox affiliate for Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Anniston.
WVTM-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with NBC.Owned by Hearst Television, [2] the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities atop Red Mountain, between Vulcan Trail and Valley View Drive in southeastern Birmingham, adjacent to the Vulcan Statue and next to the studios of Fox affiliate WBRC (channel 6).
WBRC in Birmingham weathered the switches well and by 2000 was the highest-rated Fox-owned station in morning, evening, and late news, as well as prime time. Uniquely, the station initially produced separate half-hour newscasts at 9 and 10 p.m. because it lacked the resources to produce 90 minutes of late news.