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WALB NEWS - More Plots by Students to Attack Teachers walbnews10 10,030 views April 3, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8108539 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8108238 Further developments have emerged in the case of a grou...
VIEWPOINT - Ray Charles Plaza Should Honor Ray walbnews10 565 views April 2, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8111980 Back on December 7th, hundreds of people celebrated the opening of Albany's newest attraction. A cross-s...
VIEWPOINT - Eagle Soars walbnews10 660 views March 27, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8079396 There's a truth in broadcasting: People sit up and pay attention to news stories about kids and animals....
WALB NEWS - Nursing Home Employee Charged With Sexual Abuse walbnews10 1,771 views March 26, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8075815 A former nursing home employee is charged with sexually assaulting a 92-year-old man.
WALB NEWS - Marine Reservists Say Iraq is Improving walbnews10 521 views March 26, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8074354 Five Marine Reservists from the Albany Marine Corps Logistics Base have returned home from Iraq after se...
WALB NEWS - Security Guard Arrested in Shoe Station Robbery walbnews10 3,307 views March 26, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8071931 Security guard Freddie Lee Green told police he was hit from behind by a robber who dropped down from th...
WALB NEWS - Crooks Want Your Home's Title walbnews10 256 views March 26, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8074083 Crooks have found a way to steal your home and sell it, without you even knowing.
VIEWPOINT - Who Pulled the Radio Plug? walbnews10 244 views March 25, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8046159 Many viewers want to know what happened to the WALB 6PM news on B-100, and the ending of the broadcast w...
WALB NEWS - Wild Adventures' New Wild Ride walbnews10 1,609 views March 21, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?s=8051435 For the first time in three years, Wild Adventures is debuting a new ride. The Rattler is a spinning swi...
WALB NEWS - City Manager to Investigate "Noose" Complaint walbnews10 581 views March 20, 2008 http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?s=8048108 Three Albany Fire Department supervisors are relieved of their duties because of the way they handled a...

About WALB News 10 - Albany, Georgia

WALB-TV is owned by Raycom Media of Montgomery, Alabama.

Raycom Media now operates television stations from Syracuse, New York to Honolulu, Hawaii.

WALB is located at:
1709 Stuart Avenue
Albany, Georgia
31706-3130.

Our mailing address is:
P.O. Box 3130
Albany, Georgia 31706-3130

Our station telephone number is:
(229) 446-1010

Fax:
(229) 446-4000

News Department:
(229) 446-9252

News Fax:
(229) 446-4041

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WALB-TV was started by the Albany Herald , and its owner, James H. Gray, Sr., in 1954.

The Herald entered broadcasting 13 years earlier, when it built WALB-AM radio. WALB-AM signed on in May of 1941, some six months prior to America's entry into World War II.

In 1953, the FCC granted a construction permit for WALB-TV on Stuart Avenue, which in that era, was a dirt road through a pecan grove.

When the TV station was completed in 1954, the radio staff was brought over from the Dunbar Lane transmitter site, and remained with TV until the radio station was sold to Allen Woodall, Sr., of Columbus, in 1960.

WALB's staff totaled 18 employees.When the station celebrated its 25th birthday, that number was 63. Currently, there are 103 on the WALB staff, including the Valdosta and Thomasville Bureaus.

For its first three years, WALB's signal was 112,000 Watts, and came from the 426-foot tower on Stuart Avenue.

In 1957 a 1,000 foot tower was built at it current broadcast site near Doerun, and the power was raised to 316,000 Watts.

The signal is seen from Monticello, Florida in the South to Pinehurst in the North, and from Blakely in the West, to Douglas in the East. WALB is also seen on over 50 cable systems all over South Georgia.

In March of 1976, the main studio portion of the station burned, but the business offices and transmitter link were saved. Using spare and borrowed equipment, the station got back on the air within a day, broadcasting from its shop building.

The station operated as the flagship of the Gray Communications Corporation until the Liberty Broadcasting Corporation bought the station in 1998.

WALB was purchased by the Liberty Corporation in 1998, and then in 2006, WALB was one of the Liberty stations to be purchased by Raycom , which also owns WTVM in Columbus, and WTOC in Savannah.

WALB continues to set the pace in South Georgia television. Our news operation informs viewers seven days a week, with newscasts beginning at 5:30AM.

WALB prides itself on service to the South Georgia community, and devotes a significant portion of air time, in kind services, and promotional support to worthy causes.

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