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WAFB (channel 9) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power , Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WBXH-CD (channel 39). The two stations share studios on Government Street in downtown Baton Rouge; WAFB's transmitter is located on River Road near the city's Riverbend section.
WBXH-CD (channel 39) is a low-power, Class A television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate WAFB (channel 9). The two stations share studios on Government Street in downtown Baton Rouge, where WBXH-CD's transmitter is also located.
It was also the longest running VHF outlet in Baton Rouge at the time, as WAFB originally broadcast on UHF channel 28 before moving to VHF channel 9 in 1960. WBRZ was a primary NBC affiliate, sharing ABC with WAFB. It began broadcasting in color seven months later, becoming the first Baton Rouge TV station to do so.
KCFW-TV in Kalispell, Montana. KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. KCTS-TV in Seattle, Washington, on virtual channel 9. KDSE in Dickinson, North Dakota. KECY-TV in El Centro, California. KEZI in Eugene, Oregon. KFNR in Rawlins, Wyoming. KFWD in Fort Worth, Texas, on virtual channel 52. KGMD-TV in Hilo, Hawaii.
William P. "Buckskin Bill" Black (1929 – January 10, 2018) was a Louisiana children's television personality and, later, school board member. [1][2] He hosted what at the time were the longest-running children's television programs in the United States, Storyland and The Buckskin Bill Show, on Baton Rouge 's WAFB-TV. [1][3] Black famously ...
On October 1, 1968, a new FM station signed on at 98.1 MHz as WAFB-FM. [4] Then, as now, it was owned by Guaranty Broadcasting, which already owned a TV station in Baton Rouge, Channel 9 WAFB-TV . WAFB-FM was affiliated with the ABC Contemporary Radio Network and during that time the station aired a contemporary hits format.
In 1965, WJBO-FM moved to 102.5 MHz, allowing WAFB-FM (now WDGL-FM), a companion station to Channel 9 WAFB-TV, to move from 104.3 MHz to the vacated 98.1 MHz assignment. In the late 60s and into the mid-70s, WJBO-FM was a freeform progressive rock station that went by the name "Loose Radio."
In October 1957, Lion proposed to the FCC that channel 9 be moved from Hattiesburg to Baton Rouge for WAFB-TV's use, with WDAM-TV reaching an agreement to take over the channel 7 Laurel allocation; [5] in the application, the company noted that it felt that the market could only sustain one commercial television station. [6]