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WRBL
WRBL (channel 3) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group. Its studios are located on 13th Avenue in Columbus, and its transmitter is located in Cusseta. History WRBL first went on the air on November 15, 1953—just over a month after NBC affiliate WDAK-TV (channel 28, now WTVM on channel 9). It is Georgia's third-oldest station outside of Atlanta (after Macon's WMAZ-TV) as well as the second-oldest in Columbus. It would have been the fourth-oldest in Georgia, had WROM-TV, channel 9 in Rome not moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1958, rebranded as WTVC. WRBL-TV was owned by Jim Woodruff along with WRBL radio (AM 1420, now WRCG, and FM 102.9, now WVRK). Originally on channel 4, it moved to channel 3 in 1960 as part of a regional frequency reallocation by the FCC, that saw WTVM move to channel 9 and WTVY in Dothan, Alabama, move to channel 4. Ironically, the same company, Martin Theaters of Georgia, tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRCG
WRCG (1420 AM) is a classic rock-formatted radio station in Columbus, Georgia. Studios are co-located with four sister stations on Wynnton Road in Columbus east of downtown, and the transmitter is located in Phenix City, Alabama. WRCG is an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network. History WRCG was first authorized, as WRBL, on March 27, 1928, to R. E. Martin in Columbus. On May 22, 1928, it was assigned to transmit on 1170 kHz, and on November 11, 1928, was reassigned to 1200 kHz, as part of a major reallocation made under the provisions of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40. Although the call letters were randomly assigned by the government from an alphabetic list of available call signs, over the years WRBL was said to stand for "Wireless Radio's Bill Lewis", a broadcast engineer pioneer who put the station on the air, and "Wee-Rebel Radio". Sister stations WRBL-TV (Channel 3) and WRBL-FM (102.9 FM) were named after the original station. Through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTVM/WRBL-TV & WVRK-FM Tower
WTVM/WRBL/WVRK Tower, also known as the WTVM TV Mast, is a 533-meter guyed mast used for television broadcasting by WTVM, WRBL and FM radio broadcasting by WVRK-FM. It is located near Cusseta, Georgia in the United States at . At the time of its completion during 1962, the WTVM/WRBL/WVRK tower was the tallest structure in the world. However, during 1963, the WIMZ-FM tower in Knoxville, Tennessee exceeded it. Presently, despite being comparable in height to the Willis Tower in Chicago, the WTVM/WRBL/WVRK tower is not even the tallest structure in Cusseta, Georgia. During 2005, the Cusseta Richland Towers Tower, a 538.2 meter guyed mast situated at 32°19′16.4″N, 84°47′28.2″W, surpassed it in height. See also * WTVM * WRBL * WVRK-FM * List of masts * List of tallest structures in the world A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLTZ
WLTZ (channel 38) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW Plus. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Media, owner of ABC affiliate WTVM (channel 9), for the provision of certain services. Gray also operates Fox affiliate WXTX (channel 54) under a separate SSA with owner American Spirit Media. WLTZ's studios and transmitter are located on NBC 38 Drive off Buena Vista Road on the east side of the city. Master control and most internal operations are based at WTVM and WXTX's shared studios on Wynnton Road ( GA 22) in the Dinglewood section of Columbus. WLTZ went on the air in 1970 as WYEA-TV. An NBC affiliate from its first day on air, it has spent most of its history in a distant third in local news ratings in the Columbus market, despite attempts from several owners—most notably locally based insurer American Family Corporation, then former Savannah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTVM
WTVM (channel 9) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Gray Media, which provides certain services to dual NBC/ CW+ affiliate WLTZ (channel 38, owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting) and Fox affiliate WXTX (channel 54, owned by American Spirit Media) under separate shared services agreements (SSAs). WTVM and WXTX share studios (which also house master control and most internal operations for WLTZ) on Wynnton Road ( GA 22) in the Dinglewood section of Columbus; WTVM's transmitter is located in Cusseta, Georgia. History The station signed on for the first time on October 6, 1953, as WDAK-TV airing an analog signal on UHF channel 28. It was a primary NBC station with a secondary ABC affiliation. WDAK was the first television station in the Columbus market (beating rival WRBL by just over a month) and is the fifth-oldest in the state of Georgia and second-oldest outside Atlanta. During the late-1950s, the station was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rece Davis
William Laurece Davis (born ) is an American sports television journalist for ESPN/ESPN on ABC, ABC. Davis works as an anchor on ''SportsCenter'' and serves as host of various other programs on the network, including ''College GameDay (football TV program), College GameDay'' football road show and College GameDay (basketball TV program), basketball show. Since 2021, he has been ESPN's lead host for Soccer on ESPN/ABC, international soccer events. Early life and career Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Davis graduated in 1988 from the University of Alabama, earning Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Broadcast News and Public Affairs. While a student at Alabama, Davis regularly worked as a freelance television play-by-play announcer, studio host, and radio personality in select media outlets throughout the state, all positions that were primarily unpaid internships. In 1987, Davis began working as a general assignment reporter for WSES, WC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVRK
WVRK (102.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a mainstream rock format. Licensed to Columbus, Georgia, United States, the station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station had previously been owned by M&M Partners Inc. and Cumulus Media before selling to Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) in 2000. Its studios are in Columbus east of downtown, and its transmitter is in Cusseta, Georgia, south of Fort Benning Fort Benning (named Fort Moore from 2023–2025) is a United States Army post in the Columbus, Georgia area. Located on Georgia's border with Alabama, Fort Benning supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve compone .... WVRK signed on in 1949 as WRBL-FM simulcasting the programming of WRBL-AM 1420 (now WRCG) which had a conventional programming format of CBS Radio shows, pop and country music, personality, sports and local news. In 1977, the TV and radio stations went their separate ways after the death of longtime station owner Jim Woodruff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cusseta, Georgia
Cusseta ( ) is a city in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area. The population was 9,565 in 2020. The city is the county seat of Chattahoochee County, with which it shares a consolidated city-county government. Despite this, Cusseta is not coterminous with the county; it remains a geographically distinct municipality within the county. History Chattahoochee County, Georgia, Chattahoochee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on February 13, 1854. It was formed from portions of Muscogee County, Georgia, Muscogee and Marion County, Georgia, Marion counties and named for the Chattahoochee River, river that forms its western boundary. The act appointed five commissioners to choose a site for the county seat, which they named Cusseta to commemorate the Cusseta, Creek Nation, Creek Indian town that used to exist nearby. The original courthouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media General
Media General, Inc. was an American media company based in Richmond, Virginia. The company's origins can be traced back to 1887 when Richmond attorney Joseph Bryan acquired ''The Richmond Daily Times'', which later became ''The Richmond Times-Dispatch''. Joseph Bryan's son, John Stewart Bryan succeeded his father as owner and publisher of the ''Times-Dispatch'', which merged with '' The Richmond News Leader'' in 1940 to form Richmond Newspapers, Inc. After John Stewart Bryan's death in 1944, his son, D. Tennant Bryan led the company into a period of expansion into television, changing the company's name to Media General in 1969. Media General, Inc. began trading on the American Stock Exchange in 1970. In 1990, J. Stewart Bryan III, great-grandson of Joseph Bryan, became chairman, president and chief executive officer of Media General. The fourth-generation Bryan oversaw the company's expansion into digital media and the sale of Media General's newspaper division to Berkshire H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartan Communications
Spartan Communications, Inc. was a company based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, that owned WSPA-TV as the city's flagship station from 1956 to 2000 when Spartan merged with Media General of Richmond, VA. In 1984, Spartan bought WBTW and KIMT-TV from the Shotts family. History In March 2000, WSPA-TV and eleven other stations were sold to Media General for US$605 million. Former stations * Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator. In North American broadcast .... * Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station built and signed on by Spartan Communications. References Nexstar Media Group Spartanburg, South Carolina Companies based in Spartanburg, South Carolina Defunct broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Glazer
Malcolm Glazer (August 15, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American businessman and sports team owner. He was the president and chief executive officer of First Allied Corporation, a holding company for his varied business interests, and owned both Manchester United of the Premier League and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. Early life Glazer was born in Rochester, New York, the fifth of seven children of immigrants, Abraham and Hannah Glazer.Bloomberg: "Malcolm Glazer, Manchester United, NFL Owner, Dies at 85 as the most hated man in Manchester" By Laurence Arnold May 28, 2014 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WALB
WALB (channel 10) is a television station in Albany, Georgia, United States, serving Southwest Georgia, Southwestern Georgia as an affiliate of NBC and American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power CW+ affiliate WGCW-LD (channel 36). The two stations share studios on Stuart Avenue in Albany; WALB's transmitter is located east of Doerun, along the Colquitt County, Georgia, Colquitt–Worth County, Georgia, Worth county line. History The station signed on the air on April 7, 1954. It was built from the ground up by Gray Communications (now Gray Media), owners of WALB radio (1590 AM) and ''The Albany Herald''. It is one of only two full-power stations to have been built and signed on by the company, the other being WCAV-TV in Charlottesville, Virginia (which it no longer owns). When the radio station's studios were built back in 1953, Stuart Avenue was a dirt road running through a pecan grove. For its first th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbus, Georgia
Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. It is the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, Muscogee County, with which it officially merged in 1970; the original merger excluded Bibb City, Georgia, Bibb City, which joined in 2000 after dissolving its own city charter. Columbus is the List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), second most populous city in Georgia (after Atlanta), and fields the state's List of metropolitan areas in Georgia (U.S. state), fourth-largest metropolitan area. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Columbus had a population of 206,922, with 328,883 in the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area, Columbus metropolitan statistical area. The metro area joins the nearby Alabama cities of Auburn, Alabama, Auburn and Opelika, Alabama, Opelika to form the Columbus–Auburn–Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
