Red Mountain Tower Farm -- Birmingham AL USA
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N 33° 29.074 W 086° 48.446
16S E 517890 N 3705023
Four commercial broadcast towers rise from a small tower farm on Red Mountain near the Vulcan monument south of downtown Birmingham AL.
Waymark Code: WMWDB3
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 08/18/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Alfouine
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Four transmitter towers, three "single stick" towers and one triple-masted transmitter tower rise from Red Mountain near the Vulcan Monument, 7.7 miles from Birmingham.

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"TV Sta/Network, Channel No., City Location, Mi., Dir., Freq.,
WBRC FOX, 6, BIRMINGHAM, AL, 8.0, ESE, 692,
WCIQ PBS, 7, MOUNT CHEAHA, AL, 64.8, E, 180,
WBIQ PBS, 10, BIRMINGHAM, AL, 7.7, ESE, 198,
WVTM NBC, 13, BIRMINGHAM, AL, 8.2, E, 216,
WDBB CW, 17, BESSEMER, AL, 27.0, W, 500,
WTTO CW, 21, HOMEWOOD, AL, 7.7, ESE, 560,
WBIH TBN, 29, SELMA, AL, 67.8, S, 566,
WIAT CBS, 42, BIRMINGHAM, AL, 7.7, ESE, 572,
WPXH ION, 44, GADSDEN, AL, 37.0, NE, 662,
WTJP TBN, 60, GADSDEN, AL, 34.6, NE, 548,
WABM MY NETWORK TV, 68, BIRMINGHAM, AL, 7.7, ESE, 608

All the below excerpts are from Wikipedia.
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"WTTO

WTTO, virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 28), is a CW-affiliated television station serving Birmingham, Alabama, United States that is licensed to the suburb of Homewood. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a de facto legal triopoly with ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68). The three stations share studio facilities located on Beacon Parkway West in southeastern Birmingham; WTTO maintains transmitter facilities located atop Red Mountain, near the Goldencrest neighborhood of southwestern Birmingham. . . . "

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"WVTM-TV
Not to be confused with WTVM, WMTV, or WMVT.

WVTM-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation,[1] WVTM maintains studio and transmitter facilities located atop Red Mountain, between Vulcan Trail and Valley View Drive in southeastern Birmingham, adjacent to the Vulcan Statue and next to the studios of Fox affiliate WBRC (channel 6). . . . "

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WBIQ is an affiilate of Alabama Public Television, and lacks a website of its own. See: (visit link)

And WABM-TV, UHF Channel 68, has its website here: (visit link)
Call signs/Frequencies/Channels/Broadcaster:
WVTM-TV Channel 13 WIAT-TV Channel 42 WBIQ-TV Channel 10 WTTO-TV Channel 21 WABM-TV Channel 68


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Legacy transmitter tower/antenna: no

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