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WDBB
WDBB (channel 17) is an independent television station licensed to Bessemer, Alabama, United States, serving Tuscaloosa and west Alabama as a satellite of Birmingham-based WTTO (channel 21). It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside WTTO, fellow independent WABM (channel 68), and regional ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58, branded as ABC 33/40), which WDBB also rebroadcasts. WDBB's transmitter is located near Windham Springs, east of State Route 69; its parent station share studios with WABM and WBMA-LD at the Riverchase office park on Concourse Parkway in Hoover. WDBB was started as a local independent station by Dubose Broadcasting in 1984; it soon expanded to cover Birmingham. In 1986, the station launched WNAL-TV (channel 44) in Gadsden, which together with WDBB provided regional coverage. WDBB-WNAL served as the Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate for the Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Anniston–Gadsden markets from the network's launch in 1986 until 1990, when the affiliation went to WTTO; WDBB began simulcasting that station the next year due to financial difficulties. WDBB and WTTO lost Fox in 1996 due to a major regional shuffle of network affiliations, affiliating with The WB in 1997 and with The CW in 2006.
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WDBB (channel 17) is an independent television station licensed to Bessemer, Alabama, United States, serving Tuscaloosa and west Alabama as a satellite of Birmingham-based WTTO (channel 21). It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside WTTO, fellow independent WABM (channel 68), and regional ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58, branded as ABC 33/40), which WDBB also rebroadcasts. WDBB's transmitter is located near Windham Springs, east of State Route 69; its parent station share studios with WABM and WBMA-LD at the Riverchase office park on Concourse Parkway in Hoover. WDBB was started as a local independent station by Dubose Broadcasting in 1984; it soon expanded to cover Birmingham. In 1986, the station launched WNAL-TV (channel 44) in Gadsden, which together with WDBB provided regional coverage. WDBB-WNAL served as the Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate for the Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Anniston–Gadsden markets from the network's launch in 1986 until 1990, when the affiliation went to WTTO; WDBB began simulcasting that station the next year due to financial difficulties. WDBB and WTTO lost Fox in 1996 due to a major regional shuffle of network affiliations, affiliating with The WB in 1997 and with The CW in 2006.
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