 wpxh-tv, virtual channel 44 (uhf digital channel 45), is an ion television owned-and-operated television station for birmingham, alabama, licensed to gadsden. the station is owned by ion media networks. wpxh maintains offices located on golden crest drive in birmingham, and its transmitter is located in oneonta. ==history== in 1984, wdbb (channel 17) in tuscaloosa had a problem. the two-year-old station was looking to increase its profile in central alabama, but its signal was nowhere near strong enough to cover the northern half of the market. in the days when cable still didn't have much penetration, wdbb faced the problem of improving its coverage in the vast central alabama market. this put it at a severe disadvantage to birmingham's other major independent, wtto (channel 21), which had early on established itself as one of the strongest independent stations in the deep south and the nation. owner dubose broadcasting found a solution when it won a construction permit for a channel 45 allocation in gadsden. that station signed on in april 1986 as wnal-tv, serving as a full-time satellite station for the northern half of the marke
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