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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).
Although WBRC-TV was the first television station in Birmingham to be granted a license by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it is the second-oldest television station in Alabama, signing on just over one month after WAFM-TV (channel 13, now WVTM-TV), which debuted on May 29. It was originally owned by the Birmingham Broadcasting ...
Channel 13 was sold to Times Mirror in 1980 and renamed WVTM-TV, and Spann was moved to sister station KDFW in Dallas in 1984. In 1985, he was named the best weathercaster in the Metroplex by the Dallas Press Club, defeating such competition as KXAS-TV's Harold Taft and WFAA-TV's Troy Dungan.
Police on the scene of a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday night. Investigators believe the gunmen were paid to kill an individual target (WVTM 13 News) It’s still unclear what ...
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BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — Police have charged a 20-year-old Alabama man with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three men at a gas station near Birmingham.
13 7 WVTM-TV: NBC: MeTV on 13.2 Birmingham: Homewood: 21 21 WTTO: CW: Antenna TV on 21.2, Comet on 21.3, TBD on 21.4 Tuscaloosa: 23 6 WVUA: Cozi TV: Satellite of WVUA-CD ch. 7 Tuscaloosa TheGrio on 23.2, This TV on 23.3, Weather on 23.4 Anniston: 40 9 WGWW: H&I: ABC on 40.2 (WBMA-LD 58.1), Weather on 40.3 (WBMA-LD 58.2) Birmingham: 42 30 WIAT: CBS
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.