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The station first signed on the air on October 26, 1969, as WHMA-TV. [6] Originally operating as a primary CBS and secondary NBC affiliate, the station was initially owned by the Anniston Broadcasting Company, which was run by members of the family of Harry M. Ayers, who also owned the Anniston Star newspaper and local radio station WHMA (1390 AM and 100.5 FM, the FM station is now Atlanta ...
The following is a list of television news anchors who have worked in Birmingham, Alabama. Pages in category "Television anchors from Birmingham, Alabama" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
On May 31, 1970, when WAPI-TV formally removed CBS programming and became the exclusive NBC affiliate for the Birmingham market, WCFT-TV became an exclusive CBS affiliate; WBMG in Birmingham (which had been affiliated with the network since it signed in October 1965, in a similar split arrangement with NBC) and WHMA-TV (channel 40) in Anniston (which had been an exclusive CBS affiliate since ...
The station's news department began operations at WVUA-CD's sign-on in 1998, providing local news coverage to west-central Alabama for the first time since WDBB and WCFT-TV (channel 33, now WSES) shifted focus to the Birmingham area during the mid-1990s (the latter being a byproduct of WBRC's conversion into a Fox owned-and-operated station ...
A half-century saga of good intentions slammed by racism came to an upbeat conclusion this week in Birmingham, Michigan. . . making oldsters happy. Birmingham names new mayor as city settles deal ...
Doug Bell (born 1961) is a veteran sportscaster who works with WJOX-AM. [1]He served as sports director for WIAT, a CBS affiliate.He joined WJOX-AM where he provides hourly sports reports from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
In July 2017, Made in Birmingham's news operation moved from Walsall to new studios and offices on Bridge Street, beside the Gas Street Basin in Birmingham. In November 2017, following a restructuring of the Made network's operations, [1] Birmingham News was axed and local production was cut. Around ten staff were reportedly made redundant.
Station management declined ABC's insistence that WBRC expand its 6 p.m. newscast to match the length of the ABC Evening News; however, the 15-minute local newscast beat The Huntley-Brinkley Report on WAPI-TV/WVTM and the CBS Evening News on WBMG in the ratings. In 1979, channel 6 became the first television station in Alabama to acquire a ...