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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.
Its newscasts were also among the highest-rated local news programs in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s; WBRC had won practically every news timeslot for many years, with WAPI-TV/WVTM-TV coming in at a distant second until the mid-2000s; CBS affiliate WBMG/WIAT was not a factor for either station for most of its history (to the ...
It was the city's third commercial station after channels 6 and 13 (now WBRC and WVTM-TV), whose very high frequency (VHF) signals carried further than WBMG's ultra high frequency (UHF) signal; the Birmingham Television Corporation, which built channel 42, had been unsuccessful in efforts to allocate a third VHF TV channel to Birmingham.
(WBTS-CD transmits over full-power WGBX-TV's spectrum, but is excluded as it is classified as a low-power license). A blue background indicates a station transmitting in the ATSC 3.0 format over-the-air; details about the station's alternate availability in the original ATSC format are contained in its article.
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).
Four people are dead and at least 17 others injured after gunmen fired over 100 shots in a mass shooting in Birmingham late Saturday night that police believe was a “targeted attack.”. The ...
WVTM-TV, WAPI-TV: The Sgt. Jack Show (with Neal Miller) WBRC: Supersonic Sam (with Horace Pumphrey) WVTM-TV, WABT: Tip Top Clubhouse (renamed to Cousin Cliff's Clubhouse; hosted by Cliff Holman) WBRC: Uncle Bill and Spooky (with Bill Wright) WVTM-TV, WABT: Uncle Bill's Fun Shop (with Bill Wright) WVTM-TV, WABT: Western Theatre (with Benny Carle)