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WBMA-LD (channel 58) is a low-power television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with ABC.It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68) and Homewood-licensed CW affiliate WTTO (channel 21); Sinclair also operates Bessemer-licensed WDBB (channel 17), which serves as a full satellite station of WTTO, under a local marketing ...
W58CK launched its in-house news department the following day on September 1, when the station was merged into the "ABC 33/40" trimulcast; WJSU's locally based newscasts were replaced by simulcasts of W58CK/WBMA's morning, midday and evening newscasts. Allbritton transferred certain members of WJSU's news staff to the W58CK/WBMA news department.
Even though WBMA was the official ABC affiliate for the Birmingham market, Allbritton chose instead to name the triumvirate operation "ABC 33/40", using the over-the-air channel numbers of WCFT and WJSU instead as the collective branding for the stations, making it appear as if WCFT was the primary station and WJSU was acting as its satellite.
Anniston: 40 9 WGWW: H&I: ABC on 40.2 (WBMA-LD 58.1), ... 33 WPXH-TV: Ion: Court TV on ... Laff on 44.4, Defy TV on 44.5, Scripps News on 44.6, HSN on 44.7 Gadsden ...
In January 1996, ABC struck a deal with Allbritton Communications to affiliate with CBS stations WCFT-TV (channel 33, now Heroes & Icons affiliate WSES) in Tuscaloosa and WJSU-TV (channel 40, now Heroes & Icons affiliate WGWW) in Anniston (the latter of which Allbritton had agreed to operate under a local marketing agreement with then-owner ...
WEAC-CD is the only television station that directly broadcasts from the Anniston area, but many Birmingham stations have towers and news bureaus here, such as WJSU-TV (WJSU is a local broadcast station for Birmingham-based ABC 33/40), WBRC-TV , and WVTM-TV .
Spann left WBRC in 1996 to the newly formed ABC 33/40, which had merged WCFT with WJSU-TV in Anniston and a new low-power repeater in Birmingham , and had replaced WBRC as Birmingham's ABC affiliate. He has been at ABC 33/40 ever since. Starting in 2007, Spann could be heard by listeners of the syndicated Rick and Bubba Show.
John Oldshue is a former meteorologist [1] and storm chaser for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1997 to 2011, before he retired to run a small business.He won an Emmy award for coverage of the Tuscaloosa tornado on December 16, 2000, alongside meteorologist James Spann.