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Full-power digital · channel 30 · BIRMINGHAM, AL
| Facility ID | 5360 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | NEXSTAR MEDIA 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 | 33.48389, -86.80583 |
| Effective radiated power | 1000 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 615 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
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.
| Website | http://www.cbs42.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 16
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| 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. |
| W16DS-D | 16 | DCA | GLEN IRIS BAPTIST SCHOOL |
| 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 |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WIAT | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WIAT | 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.