WTTO Tower
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WTTO: Homewood/Birmingham, Alabama WDBB: Bessemer/Tuscaloosa, Alabama United States |
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| Branding | CW 21 (general) ABC 33/40 (WDBB-DT2) |
| Slogan |
Dare to Defy (general; CW national slogan used in station advertising) Working For You (DT2) |
| Channels |
Digital: WTTO: 28 (UHF) WDBB: 18 (UHF) Virtual: WTTO: 21 () WDBB: 17 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner |
WTTO: Sinclair Broadcast Group WDBB: Cunningham Broadcasting (operated under time brokerage agreement by Sinclair Broadcast Group) (WTTO: WTTO Licensee, LLC WDBB: WDBB-TV, Inc.) |
| Founded |
WTTO: November 6, 1979 WDBB: March 29, 1984 |
| First air date |
WTTO: April 21, 1982 WDBB: October 8, 1984 |
| Call letters' meaning |
WTTO: Television Twenty- One WDBB: DuBose Broadcasting (original owners of WDBB) |
| Sister station(s) |
WBMA-LD WABM |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: WTTO: 21 (UHF, 1982–2009) WDBB: 17 (UHF, 1984–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
WTTO: Independent (1982–1991, 1996–1997) Fox (1991–1996) WDBB: Independent (1984–1986, 1996–1997) Fox (1986–1996, simulcast with WTTO from 1991) Both stations: The WB (1997–2006) Fox (secondary; 1996–2000) The Tube Music Network (DT2; 2006) ZUUS Country (DT2; 2010–2014) |
| Transmitter power |
WTTO: 765 kW WDBB: 350 kW |
| Height |
WTTO: 427.3 m WDBB: 675 m |
| Facility ID |
WTTO: 74138 WDBB: 71325 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
WTTO: 33°29′4.5″N 86°48′25.5″W / 33.484583°N 86.807083°WCoordinates: 33°29′4.5″N 86°48′25.5″W / 33.484583°N 86.807083°W WDBB: 33°28′51.3″N 87°24′2.9″W / 33.480917°N 87.400806°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
/ WDBB Profile / WDBB CDBS |
| Website | wtto21 |
WTTO, virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 28), is a CW-affiliated television station serving Birmingham, Alabama, United States that is licensed to the suburb of Homewood. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a de facto legal triopoly with ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68). WTTO and WABM share studio facilities located on Beacon Parkway West in southeastern Birmingham; WTTO maintains transmitter facilities located atop Red Mountain, near the Goldencrest neighborhood of southwestern Birmingham.
WTTO operates a full-time satellite station, WDBB (virtual channel 17; UHF digital channel 18), licensed to the Birmingham suburb of Bessemer. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair under a time brokerage agreement; however, Sinclair effectively owns WDBB as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. WDBB – which maintains transmitter facilities located east of State Route 69, near Windham Springs – relays WTTO's programming to areas of west-central Alabama that receive marginal to non-existent over-the-air coverage from the latter station's main signal (including its primary city of service, Tuscaloosa). However, there is a decent degree of overlap between the respective signal contours of WTTO and WDBB in western portions of the Birmingham metropolitan area. On-air references to WDBB are limited to FCC-mandated hourly station identifications during station promotions and regular programming, with both stations using WTTO's virtual channel number in on-air branding.
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