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WKRG-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Mobile, Alabama, United States, serving southwest Alabama and northwest Florida as an affiliate of CBS.It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Gulf Shores, Alabama–licensed CW owned-and-operated station WFNA (channel 55).
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 ...
Showers was born on the north side of Mobile, Alabama in 1946. After graduating high school, he joined the United States Air Force, where he served as a Military Intelligence Analyst in the Far East, Middle East, and other territories. He joined the team at local television station WKRG-TV in 1969, working part-time.
[citation needed] Woman's World was included in the Mobile Chamber of Commerce article celebrating WKRG's 50th anniversary, where it was listed as one of the TV station's favorite shows from the channel's early days of broadcast. [5] Notable guests on the program included well-known celebrities, such as Michael Landon. [6]
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).
Mobile: 5 20 WKRG-TV: CBS: Ion on 5.2, MeTV on 5.3, Court TV on 5.4 10 9 WALA-TV: Fox: ... "Alabama TV stations". Newslink. "Alabama TV Stations". Mondo Times.
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).
Mobile: 5 WKRG-TV: CBS on 5.1 ION Television on 5.2 Mobile: 10 WALA-TV: Fox: Mobile: 15 WPMI-TV: NBC: Mobile: 21 ... List of television stations in Alabama (by ...