WGWW

WGWW
Brand
City of License	Anniston, Alabama
Market	Birmingham, Alabama
Channel	9 digital 40 virtual Formerly: 40 analog (1969-2009)
Network Affiliation	Current: Heroes & Icons ABC (DT2, retransmission of WBMA-LD) Formerly: CBS (1969-96) ABC (1996-2014) NBC (secondary, 1969-70) Heartland (2014-17)
Founded	1969
Company	Howard Stirk Holdings
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows

WGWW is a television station in the Birmingham, Alabama market, broadcasting on digital channel 9, displayed via PSIP as virtual 40. Airing programs from the Diginet Heroes & Icons, its city of license is Anniston.

The station signed on in 1969 as WHMA on analog channel 40 as a CBS affiliate for eastern Alabama. It was a separate market from Birmingham at the time (rank #192). It changed calls to WJSU in the 1990s. In 1995, the Fox network was wrapping up its henhouse raid of VHF TV stations started in 1994. The network bought then-ABC affiliate WBRC, but the station's contract with ABC didn't expire until September of 1996. Allbritton Communications bought W58CK, a low-powered Birmingham station and beamed it as the new ABC outlet. For the station to reach western and eastern parts of north Alabama, an agreement was reached to make WCFT/channel 33 in Tuscaloosa and WJSU satellites of W58CK, which had its call later changed to WBMA-LD.

In May, 2014, Sinclair announced it was divesting itself of three TV stations in order make My Network TV affiliate WABM/ch. 68 a full-power ABC affiliate. ABC currently airs on WABM's subcarrier and on channel 40's subcarrier. WJSU changed their call to WGWW and changed affiliation to Heroes & Icons in 2017 (it had been Heartland since 2014).