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WVTM-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with NBC.Owned by Hearst Television, [2] the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities atop Red Mountain, between Vulcan Trail and Valley View Drive in southeastern Birmingham, adjacent to the Vulcan Statue and next to the studios of Fox affiliate WBRC (channel 6).
Its newscasts were also among the highest-rated local news programs in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s; WBRC had won practically every news timeslot for many years, with WAPI-TV/WVTM-TV coming in at a distant second until the mid-2000s; CBS affiliate WBMG/WIAT was not a factor for either station for most of its history (to the ...
WVTM-TV, WAPI-TV: The Sgt. Jack Show (with Neal Miller) WBRC: Supersonic Sam (with Horace Pumphrey) WVTM-TV, WABT: Tip Top Clubhouse (renamed to Cousin Cliff's Clubhouse; hosted by Cliff Holman) WBRC: Uncle Bill and Spooky (with Bill Wright) WVTM-TV, WABT: Uncle Bill's Fun Shop (with Bill Wright) WVTM-TV, WABT: Western Theatre (with Benny Carle)
This is a list of full-service television stations in the United States having call signs which begin with the letter W. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex., WOCV-CD, W16DQ-D and WIFR-LD—have not been included.
Disaffiliated from NBC when the Newhouse family signed an exclusive affiliation deal with the network for WAPI-TV. Talladega-Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston, Alabama: W47BS 47 (now WOIL-CD) 1993–1997 (translator of WVTM-TV) Independent Translator station of NBC affiliate (later O&O) WVTM-TV. Disaffiliated from NBC in 1997 and became a separate ...
WVTM-TV (former call sign WAPI-TV), a television station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, US; Other uses. Mathilda Batlayeri Airport (ICAO code), Indonesia;
Because WAPI-TV had first-call rights on the networks' programs, series moved between the stations, sometimes in the middle of the television season. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The station broadcast with an effective radiated power of 479,000 watts until 1969, when it activated a new, 894-foot (272 m) tower and increased its power to over a million watts ...
Local TV stations were free to "cherry-pick" which programs they would broadcast. Many of DuMont's "affiliates" carried very little DuMont programming, choosing to air one or two more popular programs (such as Life Is Worth Living , which was aired by 169 stations during the 1953–1954 season) [ 3 ] and/or sports programming on the weekends.