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WTTO Tower

WTTO / WDBB
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WTTO: Homewood/Birmingham, Alabama
WDBB: Bessemer/Tuscaloosa, Alabama
United States
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; 34 years ago (1982-04-21)
WDBB: October 8, 1984; 32 years ago (1984-10-08)
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°W / 33.484583; -86.807083Coordinates: 33°29′4.5″N 86°48′25.5″W / 33.484583°N 86.807083°W / 33.484583; -86.807083
WDBB:
33°28′51.3″N 87°24′2.9″W / 33.480917°N 87.400806°W / 33.480917; -87.400806 (WDBB)
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: / WDBB Profile
/ WDBB CDBS
Website wtto21.com

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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