WAFF is the NBC television network affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama. Owned by Raycom Media, the station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 48 (mapped as virtual channel 48.1 via PSIP) and serves the northern portion of Alabama and several counties in southern Tennessee.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels
WAFF ended programming on its analog signal, on June 12, 2009, as part of the DTV transition in the United...
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WAFF is the NBC television network affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama. Owned by Raycom Media, the station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 48 (mapped as virtual channel 48.1 via PSIP) and serves the northern portion of Alabama and several counties in southern Tennessee.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels
WAFF ended programming on its analog signal, on June 12, 2009, as part of the DTV transition in the United States, it, according to an FCC filing, was to move back to channel 48 and increase power. In December 2011 this move back to channel 48 finally took place, along with an increase in transmitter height. The accompanying planned increase in transmitter power, however, was considerably reduced. This resulted in the station broadcasting at 48 kW ERP instead of the originally planned 356 kW ERP.
The station first began broadcasting from studios and transmitters in Decatur (30 miles / 50 km west of Huntsville) on July 4, 1954, as WMSL-TV, channel...
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