TV Technical Profile: WRBL
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- Channel:
- 15
- Programming:
- 3.1 - CBS
- 3.2 - Memorable
Entertainment Television
3.2 - to be: Busted
3.3 - ion
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map][street
view] North of where GA-26 heads into Fort Benning, just
north of Wilkinson Cemetery.
- Power (ERP):
- 1 MW
- Height Above
Average Terrain (HAAT):
- 1,663 feet
- Antenna:
- Omnidirectional
- Other
Information:
- 41 dBu protected
contour
map, from the FCC.
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Street View of the station's studio on 13th Avenue in Columbus.
Owned by Nexstar
Media Group, Inc.
- History:
- Signed on by the
owners of WRBL AM and FM, in the May 1953 as a channel 4
station. At the time, Columbus' only other TV station was
WTVM, on UHF channel 28. A few years later, in a game of musical
chairs with WTVY in Dothan (then on channel 9), WRBL went from 4 to
3 and WTVY from 9 to 4. WTVM (the real beneficiary) went from 28 to
9. WRBL has always been a CBS affiliate — WRBL's CBS affiliation
dated back the the late 30's — though it had secondary affiliation
when the market had only two stations. This ended with channel 38
came on the air. The station added Retro Television Network to a
digital subchannel in the spring of 2008.
- This
station elected to keep analog broadcasts on until the June 12th
deadline.
- The Retro
TV feed was cut on 26 September 2011 and replaced with the new MeTV
network. The station later added the ION television network to
the -.3 subchannel.
In February 2025 it was announced that the station would be carrying
the new Scripps-owned crime network Busted, set to debut on 1 March
2025. According to RabbitEars, it is set to replace
MeTV on the —.2 subchannel.