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Several members of the news department staff in its early years started at WBRC radio including news anchors Harry Mabry and Joe Langston (the latter of whom would also take on a management role as its director of news and editorial policy in 1969), and sports anchor Tom York. In 1969, former WSGN radio anchor Bill Bolen joined WBRC to replace ...
While the reporter-less format cost the station less—the WIAT news department had 25 employees in 2003, compared to 70 at WBRC—it was not prospering against more traditional news competition and with a lack of recognizable faces. [96] Beginning in 2005, WIAT produced a 9 p.m. newscast for WTTO, at that time the market's affiliate of The WB.
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
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.
The four stations also comprise the Raycom Weather Network and the Raycom Alabama Weather Blog, where meteorologists from all four stations post forecasts and storm reports, as well as live feeds from all of the cameras that the four stations operate. The site also has live feeds of the radars of WTVM, WSFA, WBRC and WAFF.
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.
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 ...
WTBM-CD (channel 24) is a low-power, Class A television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo.It is owned by Gray Media alongside Fox affiliate WBRC (channel 6).