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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 ...
James Max Spann Jr. (born June 6, 1956) is a television meteorologist, and podcast host based in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] He currently works for WBMA-LD (ABC 33/40), Birmingham's ABC affiliate. Spann has worked in the field since 1978. [2] He also hosts the podcast WeatherBrains, which he started in 2006. [3] [4] [5]
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.
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 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.
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 ...
Brown began his journalism career in 2004 as a business reporter for the Stoke-on-Trent daily The Sentinel where, in 2008, he became deputy business editor. [5]In 2009, he became deputy regional head of business at Birmingham Post & Mail (BPM) titles Birmingham Post, Birmingham Mail and Sunday Mercury.
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.