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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).
In the 1950s, as network radio programming began to lose its importance due to television's popularity, WAPI 1070 evolved. It became a full service, middle-of-the-road station of popular music, news and sports, featuring several local call-in shows at night. By the mid-1970s, it was the only Birmingham AM adult contemporary radio station.
Station management declined ABC's insistence that WBRC expand its 6 p.m. newscast to match the length of the ABC Evening News; however, the 15-minute local newscast beat The Huntley-Brinkley Report on WAPI-TV/WVTM and the CBS Evening News on WBMG in the ratings. In 1979, channel 6 became the first television station in Alabama to acquire a ...
Herb Winches, a veteran Birmingham sportscaster for WBRC and WVTM, worked at channel 42 from 2007 to 2008 [105] before being replaced by Jim Dunaway, a 15-year veteran of WVTM and sports talk radio host. [106] The station also hired other longtime news presenters in Birmingham, including Ken Lass, Mark Prater, and David Neal. [107] [104]
WVTM-TV (former call sign WAPI-TV), a television station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, US; Other uses. Mathilda Batlayeri Airport (ICAO code), Indonesia;
WAFM-TV/WABT/WAPI-TV 13 (now WVTM-TV) 1949–1954 (primary), 1961–1965 (joint), 1965-1970 (secondary) NBC WIAT 42 WAFM-TV/WABT was a primary affiliate during its first tenure with CBS (with a secondary ABC affiliation), and was jointly affiliated with NBC and CBS during its second tenure (as WAPI-TV).
Times-Mirror Broadcasting later acquired KTBC-TV in Austin, Texas in 1973; [19] and in 1980 purchased a group of stations owned by Newhouse Newspapers: WAPI-TV (now WVTM-TV) in Birmingham, Alabama; KTVI in St. Louis; WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV) in Syracuse, New York and its satellite station WSYE-TV (now WETM-TV) in Elmira, New York; and WTPA-TV (now ...
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