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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 ...
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).
[citation needed] Woman's World was included in the Mobile Chamber of Commerce article celebrating WKRG's 50th anniversary, where it was listed as one of the TV station's favorite shows from the channel's early days of broadcast. [5] Notable guests on the program included well-known celebrities, such as Michael Landon. [6]
The following is a list of stations owned or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group.Sinclair owns or operates 294 television stations across the United States in 89 markets ranging in size from as large as Washington, D.C. to as small as Ottumwa, Iowa/Kirksville, Missouri. [1]
Its studios are located in the same building as Channel 5 WKRG-TV on Broadcast Drive in Mobile, and the transmitter is just north of downtown. (Both stations had been co-owned at one time.) WKRG-TV supplies local news and weather, while Fox News Radio supplies national newscasts.
Alan Sealls is a retired broadcast meteorologist and educator. For two decades, he worked as chief meteorologist for WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama, leaving that station in 2019 [1] before moving in 2020 to WPMI-TV in Mobile, where he retired in 2024. [2]