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WAKA

WAKA
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Selma/Montgomery, Alabama
United States
Branding CBS 8 (general)
Alabama News Network (newscasts)
Me-TV Montgomery
(on DT2)
Channels Digital: 42 (UHF)
Virtual: 8 ()
Subchannels 8.1 CBS
8.2 MeTV
Affiliations CBS (1973–present)
Owner Bahakel Communications
(Alabama Broadcasting Partners)
First air date March 17, 1960; 57 years ago (1960-03-17)
Call letters' meaning We Always Know Alabama
Sister station(s) WBMM, WNCF
Former callsigns WSLA (1960–1984)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
8 (VHF, 1960–2008)
Digital:
55 (UHF, 2005–2008)
Former affiliations Independent (1960)
ABC (1960–1968)
Dark (1968–1973)
Transmitter power 1,000 kW
Height 496 m
Class DT
Facility ID 701
Transmitter coordinates 32°8′57.9″N 86°46′42.6″W / 32.149417°N 86.778500°W / 32.149417; -86.778500
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website waka.com

WAKA is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central Alabama's River Region that is licensed to Selma. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 42 (or virtual channel 8.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Gordonville. Owned by Bahakel Communications, WAKA is part of a duopoly with CW affiliate WBMM. ABC affiliate WNCF is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting but operated by Bahakel through a shared services agreement. All three television outlets share studios on Harrison Road in North Montgomery. Syndicated programming on WAKA includes Wheel of Fortune, Dr. Phil, The Doctors, and Jeopardy! among others.

Channel 8 debuted on March 17, 1960 as WSLA (acronym for SeLmA). The station was originally owned by the Brennan family and their company, Deep South Broadcasting, along with WBAM radio in Montgomery (740 AM, now WMSP), and broadcast from a converted home in Selma with the studio located in the garage. Deep South originally sought the WBAM-TV call letters for channel 8. However, in those days, Selma and Montgomery were separate markets, and Federal Communications Commission regulations at the time would not allow companion call letters to be issued to stations located in different markets. Originally an independent, it picked up an ABC affiliation soon afterward.


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