WGWW

WGWW
Satellite of WSES, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
CityAnniston, Alabama
Channels
Branding
  • WGWW Channel 40
  • ABC 33/40 (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
OperatorSinclair Broadcast Group[1]
WSES, WBMA-LD, WTTO, WABM
History
First air date
October 26, 1969 (55 years ago) (1969-10-26)
Former call signs
  • WHMA-TV (1969–1984)
  • WJSU-TV (1984–2015)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 40 (UHF, 1969–2009)
  • Primary:
  • CBS (1969–1996)
  • ABC, via WBMA-LD (1996–2014)
  • Heartland (2014–2015)
  • Secondary:
  • NBC (1969–1970)
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID56642
ERP
  • 15.6 kW
  • 19.1 kW (application)
HAAT
  • 359 m (1,178 ft)
  • 396 m (1,299 ft) (application)
Transmitter coordinates33°36′24″N 86°25′3″W / 33.60667°N 86.41750°W / 33.60667; -86.41750 (WGWW)
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.howardstirkholdings.com/stations

WGWW (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Anniston, Alabama, United States, serving the eastern portion of the Birmingham market as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Heroes & Icons. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings,[3][4][5] a partner company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. WGWW's transmitter is located at Bald Rock Mountain (off of Kelly Creek Road), near Moody in unincorporated southern St. Clair County.

WGWW operates as a full-time satellite of Tuscaloosa-licensed WSES (channel 33), whose advertising sales office is located on Golden Crest Drive in Birmingham. WGWW covers areas of northeastern Alabama that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from WSES, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise, including in Birmingham proper. WGWW is a straight simulcast of WSES; on-air references to WGWW are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WGWW does not maintain any physical presence locally in Anniston.

Through a time-brokerage agreement (TBA) with Sinclair, WGWW's second digital subchannel serves as a repeater of ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58), of which WGWW had served as a full-time satellite station on its main feed from September 1996 to September 2014.

  1. ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for WGWW". RabbitEars. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WGWW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ "Official FCC Blog". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  4. ^ "FCC Broadcast Actions". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  5. ^ "Alabama Broadcast Media Page". Alabama Broadcast Media. Retrieved December 13, 2014.