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WKRG-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Mobile, Alabama, United States, serving southwest Alabama and northwest Florida as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Gulf Shores, Alabama –licensed CW owned-and-operated station WFNA (channel 55).
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mel Showers, a legendary News 5 anchor who broke racial barriers and worked almost 50 years at WKRG-TV, has died. He was 78. “The family at this time requests privacy and ...
He joined the team at local television station WKRG-TV in 1969, working part-time. He began employment full-time in March 1970, working as a booth announcer, providing live station identification and reading live commercials. In 1974, he transitioned to become a reporter for the station's newscast, Newscenter 5. As a reporter, he covered the ...
The station was originally owned by movie theater owner, architect, and broadcasting pioneer Kenneth R. Giddens, whose family-owned WKRG-TV Inc. put WKRG (710 AM) on the air on September 26, 1946. It became a CBS affiliate on December 15, 1947. At that time it operated with 1 KW power during the day and 250 W at night. [5]
WFNA (channel 55) is a television station licensed to Gulf Shores, Alabama, United States, serving as the CW outlet for southwest Alabama and northwest Florida. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Mobile-licensed CBS affiliate WKRG-TV (channel 5).
WKRG-FM operated as a Top-40/CHR station until 1986 when it flipped to adult contemporary under the name "WKRG 99.9 FM". For a time in the 1960s, WKRG-TV, Inc., which was the license holder for WKRG, WKRG-FM, and WKRG-TV, was 50%-owned by the Mobile Press-Register daily newspaper.
Kenneth R. Giddens (September 10, 1908 – May 7, 1993) was an architect and movie theater owner, but most notably the broadcaster who put two radio stations and one television station based in Mobile, Alabama on the air, all at one point in time bearing the call sign WKRG (only the TV station still has that callsign today).
Huntsville – WHNT-TV 19; Mobile – WKRG-TV 5; Selma – WAKA 8; Alaska. Some CBS programming is broadcast on the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS).