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• WALB NEWS CENTER 10 ALBANY REGISTRATION

As a result, cable systems in the area piped in either WSB-TV from Atlanta, current sister station WTVM from Columbus, WCJB-TV from Gainesville, Florida, or WTXL-TV from Tallahassee (which technically served as the de-facto affiliate due to being the closest). In January 1992 when a plane crashed into WVGA's transmission tower and knocked the station off-air, Southwestern Georgia became one of the only areas on the East Coast without an ABC affiliate. Although WTWC-TV has been that area's affiliate since then, WALB still provides city-grade coverage to much of the Georgia side of the Tallahassee market and Grade B coverage to the city itself.

Until 1983, WALB was the default NBC affiliate for Tallahassee, Florida. The station's first tower near Doerun was built in 1957. The latter network was dropped in 1955 when it shut down and ABC remained on WALB until 1980 when WVGA (now WSWG) signed-on. Later, in 1960, the radio station was sold to Allen Woodall Senior and became known as WALG to distinguish itself from the television station.Īs the first television outlet in Albany, it was primarily a NBC affiliate with secondary relations with ABC and DuMont. The station signed-on Apas WALB-TV and was sister to WALB-AM 1590 as well as The Albany Herald. For further information on the collection or to request specific transfers, contact Margaret Compton (706) 542-1971. This collection has been inventoried but access to the materials is limited as only a portion of the footage has been transferred

WALB NEWS CENTER 10 ALBANY REGISTRATION

in Albany in 1962, as well as demonstrations surrounding his visit to Albany politicians Jimmy Carter, Sam Nunn, Herman Talmadge, Lester Maddox, Carl Sanders, George Wallace, Richard Russell, and Richard Nixon Vietnam Civil Rights issues (including the Albany Movement) integration and segregation coverage of the Georgia State Legislature 1970s gasoline rationing and meat price hikes tobacco farming and farm-related topics various local celebrations for the United States Bicentennial pageants and festivals around Georgia voter registration local sports birth control as well as many topics of local concern, such as high school sporting events, floods, fires, car accidents, homicides, holiday celebrations, education, health care, taxes, factory strikes, employment issues, and housing, among others. Topics covered include: footage of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Both national and Georgia news clips are represented. The WALB Collection consists of over 1600 cans of black and white, color, silent, and sound clips of footage shot in the field circa 1961-1978. WALB television, the NBC affiliate in Albany, Georgia, donated its archives of news footage to the University of Georgia Media Archives in June 2002.