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Class A digital · channel 16 · BIRMINGHAM, AL
| Facility ID | 24257 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | TV-49, INC. |
| Community of licence | BIRMINGHAM, AL
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 33.48417, -86.80972 |
| Effective radiated power | 8.35 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 395.4 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-11-07.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
No website is on file for this station, so there is nothing to check. Websites come from Wikidata; a station missing there is absent from this section rather than scored zero.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 794495 | 2 | LPD | |
| WNHT-LD | 4 | LPD | RICHARDSON BROADCASTING CORP. |
| WVTM-TV | 7 | DTV | WVTM HEARST TELEVISION INC. |
| WBIQ | 10 | DTV | ALABAMA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COMMISSIO |
| W13DX-D | 13 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| facility 794406 | 17 | LPD | |
| facility 794118 | 17 | LPD | |
| W18ET-D | 18 | LPD | VENTANA TELEVISION, INC. |
| WABM | 20 | DTV | BIRMINGHAM (WABM-TV) LICENSEE, INC. |
| WSWH-LD | 22 | LPD | DIGITAL NETWORKS-SOUTHEAST, LLC |
| WTBM-CD | 24 | DCA | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| WBUN-LP | 27 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/W16DS-D | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=W16DS-D | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.