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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.
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).
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).
He joined the team at local television station WKRG-TV in 1969, working part-time. He began employment full-time in March 1970, working as a booth announcer, providing live station identification and reading live commercials. In 1974, he transitioned to become a reporter for the station's newscast, Newscenter 5. As a reporter, he covered the ...
Lonnie William Quinn (born August 9, 1963 in Cheshire, Connecticut) is the lead weather anchor on WCBS-TV in New York City. Quinn used to serve as weather anchor for CBS This Morning Saturday and currently appears on the CBS Evening News. He appears frequently on sister radio station WCBS-AM 880 for their weather reports.