WGWW

WGWW

Satellite of WSES, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Anniston–Gadsden– Birmingham, Alabama United States
City	Anniston, Alabama
Channels	Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 40
Branding	WGWW Channel 40 ABC 33/40 (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations	40.1: Heroes & Icons 40.2: ABC 40.3: James Spann 24/7 Weather
Ownership
Owner	Howard Stirk Holdings (HSH Birmingham (WCFT) Licensee, LLC)
Operator	Sinclair Broadcast Group[1]
Sister stations	WSES, WBMA-LD, WTTO, WABM
History
First air date	October 26, 1969 (54 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)
Former affiliations	Primary: CBS (1969–1996) ABC, via WBMA-LD (1996–2014) Heartland (2014–2015) Secondary: NBC (1969–1970)
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	56642
ERP	15.6 kW 19.1 kW (application)
HAAT	359 m (1,178 ft) 396 m (1,299 ft) (application)
Transmitter coordinates	33°36′24″N 86°25′3″W / 33.60667°N 86.41750°W / 33.60667; -86.41750 (WGWW)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.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.