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WBMM (channel 22) is a television station licensed to Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, serving the Montgomery area as an affiliate of The CW Plus. It is owned by Bahakel Communications alongside Selma-licensed CBS affiliate WAKA (channel 8); Bahakel also provides certain services to ABC affiliate WNCF (channel 32) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The three stations share studios on Harrison Road in north Montgomery; WBMM's transmitter is located in unincorporated southwestern Bullock County along the Pike County line.
In addition to its own digital signal, WBMM is simulcast in standard definition on WNCF's second digital subchannel (32.2), broadcasting from its transmitter in Gordonville, Alabama.
The station signed on the air on September 17, 1999, as a Pax TV affiliate airing an analog signal on UHF channel 22. WBMM became an affiliate of Daystar in 2005 before eventually joining The CW (through The CW Plus) in 2006. The latter network switch was the result of The WB and UPN shutting down and merging to form The CW. Prior to The CW's formation, UPN was seen through Troy's WRJM-TV (now Cozi TV affiliate WIYC), while The WB aired via cable-only "WBMY", operated by NBC affiliate WSFA as part of The WB 100+ Station Group.
On July 7, 2011, it was announced that Bahakel Communications would purchase WBMM from SagamoreHill Broadcasting for $3.5 million. Following the acquisition, Bahakel immediately entered into a shared services agreement with SagamoreHill, allowing WNCF to begin operations under WAKA.
The official transfer of WBMM from SagamoreHill to Bahakel was completed on October 31 after which Bahakel obtained a waiver of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) duopoly regulations that requires a market to be left with eight unique television station owners after a duopoly is formed. SagamoreHill had previously acquired WBMM in 2006 with an FCC "failing station" waiver because the Montgomery–Selma market has only eight commercially licensed full-power stations and the formation of any co-owned duopoly would have left the market with only seven unique station owners. Under the current SSA arrangement with Bahakel, SagamoreHill retains responsibility for WNCF's programming, personnel, and finances while the former company provides that station with sales, administrative, production, and technical services.
Despite being the senior partner in the proposed agreement, WAKA vacated its facilities in South Central Montgomery and consolidated into WNCF's studios at some point in 2012. This was most likely due to the fact (and the irony) that Bahakel has always owned WNCF's facility and had been leasing it to SagamoreHill. Bahakel owned and operated WNCF (as WKAB-TV) until 1985 when it purchased the more desirable WAKA. FCC rules at the time prevented dual television station ownership in a market so the WKAB license was sold but the building and grounds retained. In addition, WNCF's property offered more space for a proposed expansion as compared with the land surrounding WAKA's smaller studios.
WBMM began carrying programming from the American Sports Network package with its first broadcast on August 30, 2014.
In January 2007, WBMM entered into a news share agreement with WAKA allowing the big three affiliate to produce the market's first prime time newscast on this station. Known as CW News at Nine, the weeknight-only broadcast could be seen for thirty minutes and originated from WAKA's studios featuring most of the CBS affiliate's on-air personnel. WBMM would begin to have competition to its outsourced broadcast on January 7, 2008, after Fox affiliate WCOV-TV entered into a news share arrangement with NBC outlet WSFA. That agreement resulted in Montgomery's second prime time newscast at 9 initially seen only on weeknights for 35 minutes. A weekend half-hour edition began in Summer 2008.
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WBMM (channel 22) is a television station licensed to Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, serving the Montgomery area as an affiliate of The CW Plus. It is owned by Bahakel Communications alongside Selma-licensed CBS affiliate WAKA (channel 8); Bahakel also provides certain services to ABC affiliate WNCF (channel 32) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The three stations share studios on Harrison Road in north Montgomery; WBMM's transmitter is located in unincorporated southwestern Bullock County along the Pike County line.
In addition to its own digital signal, WBMM is simulcast in standard definition on WNCF's second digital subchannel (32.2), broadcasting from its transmitter in Gordonville, Alabama.
The station signed on the air on September 17, 1999, as a Pax TV affiliate airing an analog signal on UHF channel 22. WBMM became an affiliate of Daystar in 2005 before eventually joining The CW (through The CW Plus) in 2006. The latter network switch was the result of The WB and UPN shutting down and merging to form The CW. Prior to The CW's formation, UPN was seen through Troy's WRJM-TV (now Cozi TV affiliate WIYC), while The WB aired via cable-only "WBMY", operated by NBC affiliate WSFA as part of The WB 100+ Station Group.
On July 7, 2011, it was announced that Bahakel Communications would purchase WBMM from SagamoreHill Broadcasting for $3.5 million. Following the acquisition, Bahakel immediately entered into a shared services agreement with SagamoreHill, allowing WNCF to begin operations under WAKA.
The official transfer of WBMM from SagamoreHill to Bahakel was completed on October 31 after which Bahakel obtained a waiver of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) duopoly regulations that requires a market to be left with eight unique television station owners after a duopoly is formed. SagamoreHill had previously acquired WBMM in 2006 with an FCC "failing station" waiver because the Montgomery–Selma market has only eight commercially licensed full-power stations and the formation of any co-owned duopoly would have left the market with only seven unique station owners. Under the current SSA arrangement with Bahakel, SagamoreHill retains responsibility for WNCF's programming, personnel, and finances while the former company provides that station with sales, administrative, production, and technical services.
Despite being the senior partner in the proposed agreement, WAKA vacated its facilities in South Central Montgomery and consolidated into WNCF's studios at some point in 2012. This was most likely due to the fact (and the irony) that Bahakel has always owned WNCF's facility and had been leasing it to SagamoreHill. Bahakel owned and operated WNCF (as WKAB-TV) until 1985 when it purchased the more desirable WAKA. FCC rules at the time prevented dual television station ownership in a market so the WKAB license was sold but the building and grounds retained. In addition, WNCF's property offered more space for a proposed expansion as compared with the land surrounding WAKA's smaller studios.
WBMM began carrying programming from the American Sports Network package with its first broadcast on August 30, 2014.
In January 2007, WBMM entered into a news share agreement with WAKA allowing the big three affiliate to produce the market's first prime time newscast on this station. Known as CW News at Nine, the weeknight-only broadcast could be seen for thirty minutes and originated from WAKA's studios featuring most of the CBS affiliate's on-air personnel. WBMM would begin to have competition to its outsourced broadcast on January 7, 2008, after Fox affiliate WCOV-TV entered into a news share arrangement with NBC outlet WSFA. That agreement resulted in Montgomery's second prime time newscast at 9 initially seen only on weeknights for 35 minutes. A weekend half-hour edition began in Summer 2008.
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