WKRG-TV, virtual channel

Virtual channel

In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

 5 (digital channel 27), is the CBS

CBS

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-affiliated television station for Mobile, Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...

, Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola, Florida

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, and Pascagoula

Pascagoula, Mississippi

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/Biloxi

Biloxi, Mississippi

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, Mississippi

Mississippi

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; and has been the network's affiliate in the area since its inception on August 29, 1955. The station was founded by the architect and movie theater owner Kenneth R. Giddens

Kenneth R. Giddens

Kenneth R. Giddens was an architect and movie theater owner, but most notably the broadcaster who put two radio stations and one television station based in Mobile, Alabama on the air, all at one point in time bearing the call sign “WKRG”...

, who also put the WKRG AM and FM

WMXC

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 radio stations on the air.
The station's digital channel (UHF 27) is multiplexed:

On June 12, 2009, WKRG-TV has left channel 5 and moved to channel 27 when the analog to digital conversion completed.

WKRG replaced RTV with Me-TV, a digital broadcast network owned by Weigel Broadcasting

Weigel Broadcasting

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 and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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, featuring sitcoms and dramas from the 1950s to the 1980s, which took the place of RTV on digital subchannel 5.3 on September 26, 2011, as part of a groupwide affiliation agreement with Media General; the channel replaced RTV on some Media General-owned stations in other markets.
The television and radio stations were located on St.