The radio stations were previously partnered with NBC affiliate WPMI-TV (channel 15), an association that ended as a result of Clear Channel selling its television stations (including WPMI) to Newport Television in 2008.īetween the early 1980s and 2012, WKRG served as the default CBS affiliate for the eastern half of the Pascagoula– Biloxi, Mississippi market as that market did not have a CBS affiliate of its own WKRG was available to cable subscribers in Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, and usually serves the area's "B" CBS station behind New Orleans affiliate WWL-TV. In 2007, WKRG entered into a radio partnership with Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), in effect re-establishing ties with former sister stations WNTM and WMXC, as well as WKSJ-FM (94.9 FM) and WRKH (96.1 FM).
The station celebrated its 60th year of broadcasting in 2015. Spartan Communications purchased WKRG-TV in 1998 the station then came under the ownership of Media General after it purchased Spartan in 2000. The radio stations were sold off in 1994, although they remain housed in the same building as the television station. This changed after the death of Giddens in 1993. įor years, WKRG-TV was the only locally owned station in the Mobile– Pensacola– Pascagoula area.
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He regained full control of the station in 1966. On April 4, 1958, Giddens sold 50% of the station to Mobile Press-Register, Inc. Giddens originally had a 20% stake in WKRG-TV, and the other stakes were held by local businesses and colleges. The TV station operates on the bottom floor while the radio stations operate on the second and third floors of the building. Louis Street in downtown Mobile until around 1982, when it relocated its operations to an area near the Bel Air Mall, which Giddens also had a hand in developing.
WKRG-TV originally operated from studios located on St. It is the only commercial station in the market that has never changed its primary affiliation. Owing to the radio station's ties with the CBS Radio Network, WKRG-TV has served as the market's CBS affiliate from its sign-on. Giddens, who also put WKRG radio (710 AM, now WNTM, and 99.9 FM, now WMXC) on the air.
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The station was founded by the architect and movie theater owner Kenneth R. WKRG-TV first signed on the air September 5, 1955.
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