13 Facts About WABM

WABM is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV.

In 1990, the station was sold to Krypton Broadcasting, which changed its call letters to WABM and reformatted it into a general entertainment independent in January 1991; the reformatted lineup featured a mix of classic movies, dramas, and westerns.

In contrast, WABM provided only a city-grade signal within the Birmingham metropolitan area, while transmitting a grade B signal in the western and northern parts of the market.

WABM suffered because Krypton had run into financial problems during the early 1990s, which placed WABM at a severe disadvantage when it came to acquiring the strongest programming.

Under the LMA, WTTO and WABM began sharing certain programs—although both stations continued to maintain separate schedules—and WTTO provided advertising services for WABM on their behalf.

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On January 16,1995, WABM became the Birmingham charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network .

On May 20,2000, more than a decade after most television stations had converted to the audio format, WABM began transmitting its programming with stereophonic sound.

On March 1,2006, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Fox Entertainment Group announced that WABM would become the market's charter affiliate of MyNetworkTV.

WABM eventually picked up Fox's Weekend Marketplace paid programming block in lieu of WBRC, when it replaced 4Kids TV in December 2008.

On May 29,2014, Sinclair informed the FCC that it had not found a buyer for WABM ; it proposed another restructured plan, in which it would surrender the WCFT-TV and WJSU-TV licenses, and have WABM simulcast WBMA-LD as a full-power satellite, with its existing syndicated and MyNetworkTV programming on its main channel being moved to a digital subchannel.

On September 18,2014, WABM began simulcasting WBMA-LD's main channel on digital subchannel 68.

From 1992 to 2014, WABM held the local broadcast rights to college football and basketball games from the Atlantic Coast Conference through Raycom Sports and its predecessor sports syndication services, airing most regular season games from selected conference teams each year as well as games from the first three rounds of the ACC men's basketball tournament.

On October 4,2010, WABM launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 68.