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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 1949, WAPI launched the first television station in Alabama, WAFM-TV (now WVTM-TV). The Birmingham News purchased WAPI and its FM and television sister stations in 1953, and in 1954, the by-then WABT re-affiliated with NBC; the TV station assumed the WAPI calls in 1958.
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).
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 ...
Disaffiliated from NBC when the Newhouse family signed an exclusive affiliation deal with the network for WAPI-TV. Talladega-Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston, Alabama: W47BS 47 (now WOIL-CD) 1993–1997 (translator of WVTM-TV) Independent Translator station of NBC affiliate (later O&O) WVTM-TV. Disaffiliated from NBC in 1997 and became a separate ...
WAFM-TV/WABT/WAPI-TV 13 (now WVTM-TV) 1949-1961 (secondary) NBC Secondary affiliation, with CBS (later NBC) as its primary affiliation. Lost ABC affiliation when CBS affiliate WBRC signed a full-time affiliation deal with ABC, who had strong relations with Taft Broadcasting, WBRC's then-owners. Tuscaloosa-Birmingham-Anniston, Alabama: WDBB 17
WVTM-TV (former call sign WAPI-TV), a television station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, US; Other uses. Mathilda Batlayeri Airport (ICAO code), Indonesia;
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