WAAY-TV is an ABC-affiliated television station, broadcasting on digital channel 32 from Huntsville, Alabama. The station's transmitter is on Monte Sano Mountain, to the east of Huntsville. Before the mandated move to digital transmission, WAAY broadcast on analog channel 31.
The station's first broadcast was on August 1, 1959, using the callsign WAFG-TV. It was a primary ABC affiliate—Alabama's first. There was only one other station in the area...
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WAAY-TV is an ABC-affiliated television station, broadcasting on digital channel 32 from Huntsville, Alabama. The station's transmitter is on Monte Sano Mountain, to the east of Huntsville. Before the mandated move to digital transmission, WAAY broadcast on analog channel 31.
The station's first broadcast was on August 1, 1959, using the callsign WAFG-TV. It was a primary ABC affiliate—Alabama's first. There was only one other station in the area at the time, Decatur's WMSL-TV (channel 23, now WAFF in Huntsville on channel 48). This was an unusual arrangement for a two-station market, especially one as small as Huntsville was at the time.
When the station was sold to Smith Broadcasting (owners of WAAY, now WLOR, radio) in 1963, the callsign was changed to WAAY-TV. The station switched network affiliation to NBC in January 1968, but returned to ABC nearly ten years later in December 1977, citing higher network ratings and the lack of a duplicate ABC affiliate in Florence (where WOWL,...
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