Question: What is the population of the city that WDAM-TV is licensed to?

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WAGG: WAGG (610 AM) is a radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama.  It broadcasts at a daytime power 5,000 watts, and at nighttime, it broadcasts at 1,000 watts from a transmitter in the city's westside.  WAGG is a gospel music station that targets Birmingham's African-American population.  It is owned by Summit Media, which also owns six other stations in the market, and all share studios in the Cahaba neighborhood in far southeast Birmingham.  The station was assigned the WAGG call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on January 15, 1999.

Government Medical College, Kozhikode: Government Medical College, Kozhikode (Previously known as Calicut Medical College) is a premier medical college located in the city of Kozhikode in Kerala, India.  It was established in 1957 as the second medical college in Kerala.  Since then the institution has grown into a premier centre of medical education in the state.  The medical college campus houses several institutions like Government Dental College, Government nursing college, College of Pharmacy, Institute of Maternal and Child Health, Super-specialty block and Institute of Chest Diseases.  It is affiliated to the University of Calicut and Kerala University of Health Sciences and serves 40% of the population of Kerala.  Currently, the hospital has 3025 licensed beds which makes it the largest hospital in the India by bed strength.

WYNE-LP: WYNE-LP (95.9 FM) is a Christian radio station licensed to Wayne, New Jersey and serves the Passaic County area.  Its broadcast license is held by Preakness Valley United Reformed Church.  The station is part of the New York City radio market, serving primarily the western third of its more than 16 million listeners (Nielsen Company Metro 12+ Population) with a broadcast reaching those in Passaic, Bergen, Morris and Essex counties in New Jersey.

Wired FM: Wired FM is a student radio station in Limerick city, Ireland, licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to serve the student population of Limerick City.  It is currently run as a partnership between Mary Immaculate College and Limerick Institute of Technology.  The station broadcasts all over Limerick city on 99.9FM and also streams online.

WDAM-TV: WDAM-TV is the NBC and ABC affiliated television station for Southeastern Mississippi's Pine Belt that is licensed to Laurel.  It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter at its studios on U.S. 11 in unincorporated Moselle in southern Jones.  Owned by Raycom Media, the station can also be seen on Comcast channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 432.  Syndicated programming on WDAM includes "Right This Minute", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", "Wheel of Fortune", "Jeopardy!", "Inside Edition", and "Judge Judy" among others.

Media in Charleston, South Carolina: Charleston is the nation's 95th largest designated market area (DMA), with 326,770 households and 0.27% of the U.S. TV population.  The following stations are licensed in Charleston and have significant operations or viewers in the city:

Laurel, Mississippi: Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States.  As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 18,548.  It is located northeast of Ellisville, the first county seat, which contains the county courthouse.

Supporting paragraphs: WDAM-TV Laurel, Mississippi
Answer: 18,548