WHNT
 
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Huntsville/Decatur/Florence, Alabama United States |
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| Branding | WHNT News 19 WHNT 2 HD (on DT2) WHNT 3 (on DT3) |
| Slogan | Taking Action. Getting Results. |
| Channels |
Digital: 19 (UHF) Virtual: 19 () |
| Subchannels | 19.1 CBS 19.2 WHNT2HD 19.3 Antenna TV |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner |
Tribune Broadcasting (WHNT License, LLC) |
| First air date | November 28, 1963 |
| Call letters' meaning | HuNTsville |
| Former channel number(s) | 19 (UHF analog, 1963–2009) 59 (UHF digital, 2002–2009) |
| Former affiliations | RTV (DT2; –2010) |
| Transmitter power | 250 kW |
| Height | 514 m |
| Facility ID | 48693 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°44′19.7″N 86°31′57.9″W / 34.738806°N 86.532750°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | whnt.com |
WHNT-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Tennessee Valley area of North Alabama that is licensed to Huntsville. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on Monte Sano. Owned by Tribune Broadcasting (a subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company), the station has studios on Holmes Avenue Northwest in downtown Huntsville. It also has three bureaus: Decatur, Sand Mountain (Albertville), and Shoals (Florence).
WHNT began operations on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1963 (the first new station to be launched after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated). It has been a CBS affiliate for its entire existence, and is the only Huntsville-area station to have never changed its affiliation. The FCC originally licensed the frequency for WHNT to the city of Fort Payne some forty miles to the southeast. The station was founded by a former employee of Birmingham station WAPI (now WVTM), Charles Grisham, now deceased, who later added two other Southern stations, WSLA in Selma, Alabama and WYEA in Columbus, Georgia, to his portfolio. In 1980, Grisham sold WHNT to The New York Times Company, which operated it for over a quarter century. In September 2006, The New York Times announced that the company would put its entire broadcast group up for sale with eight other stations affected in addition to WHNT. On May 7, 2007, WHNT became a property of Oak Hill Capital Partners which operates the station as part of Local TV. On July 1, 2013, Local TV announced that its stations would be acquired by Tribune Broadcasting. The sale was completed on December 27.
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