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WAFF (channel 48) is a television station in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WTHV-LD (channel 29). The two stations share studios on Memorial Parkway ( US 431 ) in Huntsville; WAFF's transmitter is located south of Monte Sano State Park .
WTHV-LD (channel 29) is a low-power television station in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Media alongside NBC affiliate WAFF (channel 48). The two stations share studios on Memorial Parkway in Huntsville; WTHV-LD's transmitter is located south of Monte Sano State Park.
The station's first broadcast was on August 1, 1959, as WAFG-TV. It was the second television outlet in the Huntsville region, signing on five years after NBC affiliate WMSL-TV (now WAFF). In addition, WAFG-TV is the longest serving station licensed to Huntsville, as WMSL was still licensed to Decatur at the time.
WHNT is the only major station in Huntsville to operate from a facility actually constructed specifically for broadcasting purposes. WAAY-TV (channel 31) operates from a former gas station, WAFF-TV from a former jewelry store, and WZDX (channel 54) from an office building. In 2003, WHNT allowed competing stations WAAY and WZDX to use space on ...
Over time, though, with the Huntsville stations, especially WAFF, expanding news bureaus of their own into the Shoals in the 1980s and 1990s, WOWL-TV lost much of its traditional advantage. By the late 1990s, this duplication had progressed to the point that the station could no longer focus solely on northwest Alabama and remain viable.
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48 19 WIYC: Cozi TV: H&I on 48.2, Court TV on 48.3, HSN on 48.4 Talladega: Mount Cheaha: 7 12 WCIQ: PBS: satellite of WBIQ ch. 10 Birmingham PBS Kids on 7.2, Create on 7.3, World on 7.4 Tuscaloosa: Bessemer: 17 14 WDBB: CW: satellite of WTTO ch. 21 Birmingham ABC on 17.2 (WBMA-LD 58.1), Weather on 17.3 (WBMA-LD 58.2) Tuscaloosa: 33 36 WSES: H&I ...