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WKRG-TV first signed on the air September 5, 1955. [1] The station was founded by the architect and movie theater owner Kenneth R. Giddens, who also put WKRG radio (710 AM, now WNTM, and 99.9 FM, now WMXC) on the air. Owing to the radio station's ties with the CBS Radio Network, WKRG-TV has served as the market's CBS affiliate from its sign-on ...
This is a list of broadcast television stations serving cities in the state of ... 13 WVTM-TV: NBC: Birmingham: 42 WIAT: CBS: ... Mobile: 5 WKRG-TV: CBS on 5.1 ION ...
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.
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]
The Walk TV Birmingham: 24 24 WTBM-CD: Biz TV SBN on 24.2, Infomercials on 24.3 Birmingham: Tuscaloosa: 25 17 WJMY-CD: Cullman: 27 25 WCQT-LD The Walk TV Birmingham: 28 27 WBUN-LD: Daystar: Birmingham: Tuscaloosa: 32 32 W32EQ-D: Silent Birmingham: 34 18 W18ET-D: Silent Birmingham: Alexander City: 38 16 W16DV-D: Silent Birmingham: 46 28 WUOA-LD ...
Melvin J. Showers (1946 – October 19, 2024) was an American journalist and news presenter. He is best known for his work at WKRG-TV in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In his early life, Showers worked in the military as an Intelligence Analyst in the Far East, Middle East, and other territories. Upon his return stateside, he started his ...
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).
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).