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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. CBS affiliate in Mobile, Alabama WKRG-TV Mobile, Alabama Pensacola, Florida United States Channels Digital: 20 (UHF) Virtual: 5 Branding WKRG 5; WKRG News 5 Programming Affiliations 5.1: CBS for others, see § Subchannels Ownership Owner Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Media Inc.) Sister ...
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 ...
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 station was originally owned by movie theater owner, architect, and broadcasting pioneer Kenneth R. Giddens, whose family-owned WKRG-TV Inc. put WKRG (710 AM) on the air on September 26, 1946. It became a CBS affiliate on December 15, 1947. At that time it operated with 1 KW power during the day and 250 W at night.
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).
Market Lighthouse station [2] RF channel Stations carried Affiliation/ programming Channel Notes Albany/ Schenectady/ Troy, NY: WCWN: 22 WRGB: CBS: 6: WTEN: ABC: 10 ...
Craig Allen (born January 25, 1957, Brooklyn, New York) is a meteorologist whose weather reports used to be heard weekdays on WCBS Newsradio 880 (880 AM radio) in New York City and globally on Audacy.com. He also does freelance forecasting for the News 12 Networks. He recently returned to CBS2 Weekend mornings to help out the First Alert ...
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.