WALB

WALB
Brand	10 News
City of License	Albany, Georgia
Market	Albany, Georgia
Channel	Digital 10 Subcarrier: 10.2 (ABC) 10.3 (Bounce TV) 10.4 (CW) Formerly: 10 analog (1954-2009) 17 digital (2001-09)
Network Affiliation	Current: NBC (primary) ABC (DT2) Formerly: ABC (secondary, 1954-80) Dumont (secondary, 1954-55)
Founded	April 7, 1954
Company	Gray Television
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	Inside Edition Rachael Ray The Doctors

WALB is the call sign for the NBC affiliate in Albany, Georgia. It operates on digital channel 10 with subcarriers 10.2 (ABC), 10.3 (This TV) and 10.4 (CW, a simulcast of WGCW-LD/channel 36). The station is owned by Gray Television.

WALB opened in 1954 on analog channel 10 with NBC as its primary network. ABC and DuMont were secondaries. They dropped DuMont after it folded in 1955, and then dropped ABC in 1980 when WVGA in Valdosta signed on as the area's primary ABC outlet. (Today WVGA is CBS affiliate WSWG.) After WVGA's operations were in flux, Albany was left to acquire ABC from outlying areas such as Atlanta, Columbus GA, and Tallahassee. In mid-spring 2011, WALB's subcarrier switched from This TV to ABC, giving the Albany market its own ABC affiliate. This TV was relaunched on a second subcarrier but has since been replaced with Bounce TV. The CW, which had been on a subcarrier of CBS affiliate WSWG/channel 44, is now on the third subcarrier of WALB.

WALB began digital transmissions on channel 17 in 2001. It relocated to its post-transition spot of 10 on June 12, 2009.

Raycom was recently acquired by Gray Television, which owned WALB and WSWG. There is still an issue with coverage overlap with the Tallahassee market where Gray owned CBS affiliate WCTV. As a result, Gray sold off WSWG.

Digital programming

Virtual	Physical	Name	Programming
10.1	10.1	WALB-DT	Main WALB (NBC)
10.2	10.2	WALB-DT2	ABC
10.3	10.3	WALB-DT3	Bounce TV
10.4	10.4	WGCW-LD	The CW

External Links

• Official Site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WALB