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Anniston/Gadsden/Birmingham, Alabama United States |
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City | Anniston, Alabama |
Branding | WGWW Channel 40 (general) ABC 33/40 (DT2) |
Slogan | Working For You (DT2) |
Channels |
Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 40 () |
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Owner |
Howard Stirk Holdings (HSH Birmingham (WCFT) Licensee, LLC) |
First air date | October 26, 1969 |
Sister station(s) |
WSES WBMA-LD WTTO WABM |
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Transmitter power | 15.6 kW |
Height | 359 m |
Facility ID | 56642 |
Transmitter coordinates | 33°36′24.3″N 86°25′3.1″W / 33.606750°N 86.417528°WCoordinates: 33°36′24.3″N 86°25′3.1″W / 33.606750°N 86.417528°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
(satellite of WSES, Tuscaloosa, Alabama) Profile (satellite of WSES, Tuscaloosa, Alabama) CDBS |
Website | hsh |
WGWW, virtual channel 40 (VHF digital channel 9), is a Heroes & Icons-affiliated television station serving Birmingham, Alabama, United States that is licensed to Anniston. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, a partner company of Sinclair Broadcast Group, and operates as a sister station to Tuscaloosa-based Heroes & Icons affiliate WSES (channel 33). WGWW maintains transmitter facilities located at Bald Rock Mountain (off of Kelly Creek Road), near Moody in unincorporated southern St. Clair County.
Through a time-brokerage agreement with the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station's second digital subchannel serves as a repeater of ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58), of which WGWW had served as a full-time satellite station on its main feed from September 1996 to September 2014.
The station first signed on the air on October 26, 1969 as WHMA-TV. Originally operating as a primary CBS and secondary NBC affiliate, the station was initially owned by the Anniston Broadcasting Company, which was run by members of the family of Harry M. Ayers, who also owned the Anniston Star newspaper and local radio station WHMA (1390 AM and 100.5 FM, the FM station is now Atlanta, Georgia-based WNNX-FM). It originally operated from studio facilities located on Noble Street in downtown Anniston.