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Local programming includes WSFA's major commitment [3] —regional and local news—with shows such as Alabama Live, WSFA 12 News First at 4, WSFA 12 News at 6, and WSFA 12 News at 10. As the only VHF station in town for 31 years, WSFA has been the dominant news station in Montgomery for as long as records have been kept.
The site also has live feeds of the radars of WTVM, WSFA, WBRC and WAFF. The only ex-Raycom station in Alabama (which is no longer a sister station of WAFF) not participating in the arrangement is WDFX-TV in the Dothan area, which formerly received its news programming from WSFA.
McGee began his broadcast news career at KGFF in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in 1946 then moved to WKY-TV, now KFOR-TV, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the stage name Mack Rogers. In 1955, the owners of WKY purchased WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama, and sent McGee there as news director. WSFA was an affiliate of NBC.
WDFX-TV (channel 34) is a television station licensed to Ozark, Alabama, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Dothan area. Owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group , the station has studios on Ross Clark Circle ( AL 210 / US 231 ) in Dothan, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated Wicksburg .
On December 19, 2017, WDHN unveiled a brand new set and began broadcasting local news in high definition. On June 1, 2020, WDHN began producing an hour-long 9 p.m. newscast for Fox affiliate WDFX, replacing a prior arrangement where news was provided by WSFA out of Montgomery. On February 1, 2021, WDHN expanded morning news to two hours.
WCOV-TV was the first television station to be built in Montgomery, beginning broadcasting on April 17, 1953. It was an affiliate of CBS; however, it was on the new ultra high frequency (UHF) band. When Montgomery's allocated very high frequency (VHF) station, WSFA-TV, began in late 1954, it immediately came to dominate the Montgomery market ...
In the fall of 1978, Spann moved to WSFA in Montgomery as a weekend sports anchor and part-time weatherman. After spending the summer of 1979 as afternoon-drive announcer at Top 40 station WHHY-FM ("Y102") in Montgomery, he was hired at WAPI-TV in Birmingham as chief weatherman, despite having no formal weather education. At the age of 23, he ...
In 2011, Raycom was an initial investor in Bounce TV, a broadcast subchannel network. [19] 1 Raycom News Network Digital Hub, an online news aggregator and exchange, was started in 2011 at the company's main office in Montgomery, Alabama.