WCBI-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for North Mississippi and Northwest Alabama that is licensed to Columbus. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 35 from a transmitter in northwestern Clay County. Owned by Morris Multimedia, the station has studios on 5th Street South in downtown Columbus. Syndicated programming on WCBI includes: The Andy Griffith Show, Deal or No Deal, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, an...
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WCBI-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for North Mississippi and Northwest Alabama that is licensed to Columbus. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 35 from a transmitter in northwestern Clay County. Owned by Morris Multimedia, the station has studios on 5th Street South in downtown Columbus. Syndicated programming on WCBI includes: The Andy Griffith Show, Deal or No Deal, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, and The Doctors.
When WCBI signed on-the-air July 13, 1956, it was the first television station in North Mississippi. The station was owned by Birney Imes, Jr. a Columbus businessman and publisher of the Commercial Dispatch newspaper. It broadcast from a cement block building surrounded by and a group of mobile homes in a cow pasture off MS 12 just east of Columbus. WCBI was originally affiliated with ABC, NBC, and CBS but has always been a primary CBS station expect during the 1977-1978 season when it was a primary ABC affiliate. During the...
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