WIAT
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Birmingham/Tuscaloosa/Anniston, Alabama United States |
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| City | Birmingham, Alabama |
| Branding | WIAT CBS 42 (general) WIAT CBS 42 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels |
Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 42 () |
| Translators | 42 (UHF) Tuscaloosa (construction permit) |
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| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 17, 1965 |
| Call letters' meaning |
It's About Time (former station slogan) |
| Former callsigns | WBMG (1965–1998) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 426 m |
| Facility ID | 5360 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°29′4.5″N 86°48′25.4″W / 33.484583°N 86.807056°WCoordinates: 33°29′4.5″N 86°48′25.4″W / 33.484583°N 86.807056°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wiat |
WIAT, virtual channel 42 (UHF digital channel 30), is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. WIAT maintains studio facilities located on Golden Crest Drive (near Valley Avenue) in southeastern Birmingham; and its transmitter is located atop Red Mountain (next to the American General candelabra tower), near the southern edge of Birmingham.
On cable, WIAT is available on Charter Spectrum channel 3 in the immediate Birmingham area (channel 8 in outlying areas), Comcast Xfinity channel 9, and AT&T U-verse channel 42 in standard definition; and in high definition on Spectrum channel 1003 (channels 708 in outlying areas), Xfinity channel 1009, and AT&T U-verse channel 1042.
The history of the UHF channel 42 allocation in the Birmingham market traces back to 1949, when the Birmingham News Company (owners of The Birmingham News and Birmingham Age-Herald newspapers) filed a construction permit application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a television station license under the call letters WSGN-TV (for the South's Greatest Newspaper), which would have served as a sister station to radio station WSGN (610 AM, now WAGG; and 93.7 FM, now WDJC), owned by the News's Southern Broadcasting subsidiary. The station partnered with The Voice of Alabama, Inc., owners of WAFM-TV (channel 13, later WABT and WAPI-TV, and now WVTM-TV), to construct a broadcast tower next to its newly completed studio facility on Red Mountain, adjcent to Vulcan Park; plans called for WSGN-TV to operate from the radio stations' Radio Park building.
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