WHNT-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, airing on UHF Channel 19. The signal reaches most of northern Alabama and several counties in southern middle Tennessee. WHNT is also the only station in the Huntsville market that has never changed its affiliation. WHNT clears the entire CBS schedule. However, the Saturday edition of The Early Show airs on 19.2.
WHNT began operations on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1963 and has al...
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WHNT-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, airing on UHF Channel 19. The signal reaches most of northern Alabama and several counties in southern middle Tennessee. WHNT is also the only station in the Huntsville market that has never changed its affiliation. WHNT clears the entire CBS schedule. However, the Saturday edition of The Early Show airs on 19.2.
WHNT began operations on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1963 and has always been an affiliate of CBS. The FCC originally licensed the frequency for WHNT to the city of Fort Payne, Ala, some 40 miles (65 kilometers) to the southeast. The station was founded by a local businessman, Charles Grisham, now deceased. In 1980, he sold WHNT to The New York Times Company, which operated it for over a quarter century. In September 2006, The Times announced that it would put its entire broadcast group up for sale, with eight other stations affected in addition to WHNT. On May 7, 2007, WHNT became a property of Oak Hill...
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