WBSE

WBSE, virtual and UHF digital channel 39, is a YesNet-affiliated television station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Mission Broadcasting but operated by Berfield/Willis Broadcast Corporation, making it a de facto owned-and-operated station of the network. Through Berfield/Willis, the station is part of a virtual duopoly with low-power ABC affiliate WBAM-LP (analog channel 34), along with that station's two satellites: Tuscaloosa-licensed WTAL (channel 7) and Anniston-licensed WANN (channel 28). All the stations share studios located at Barcelona Court and Palisades Boulevard in the southern part of the Glen Iris neighborhood in Birmingham, while WBAM and WBSE share a transmitter located atop Red Mountain
==History==
WBSE signed on as an independent station in 1974, serving the Birmingham market. However, due to financial difficulties, the station was bought by the owners of WYLE (channel 4) in Huntsville in late 1985. When WYLE signed with Fox in 1986, WBSE became a full-time satellite of WYLE and the Fox affiliate for the Birmingham market. 
In 1996, when Birmingham's ABC affiliate WBML (channel 18) lost its affiliation to now-WBSE sisters WANN and WTAL, WBML took over as the market's Fox affiliate, giving the network a full-time locally-based station with extensive news programming. As a result, WBSE returned to its status as an independent. It continued to simulcast some of WYLE's programming, along with that station's newscasts.
In 2004, Mission Broadcasting purchased WBSE for $1.2 million. Immediately, it signed an agreement with WANN/WTAL's owners to operate the station.
In 2017, WBSE became an affiliate of the Berfield/Willis-owned broadcast network YesNet.
==Digital channels==
Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
39.1 	1080i	16:9 	WBSE-HD 	Main WBSE programming / YesNet
39.2 	720p 	16:9 	WBAM-HD 	Digital simulcast of WBAM-LP / ABC
39.3 	480i 	4:3 	This 	This TV
This TV was formerly broadcast on the station's second digital subchannel. In 2020, a high-definition full-power simulcast of WBAM-LP was added to the second digital subchannel, bumping This TV to a newly created channel 39.3.
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1974
Category:Alabama
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Mission Broadcasting
Category:Channel 39
Category:Former Fox affiliates
Category:YesNet network affiliates
Category:Berfield/Willis Broadcast Corporation
Category:Birmingham, Alabama
Category:Bessemer, Alabama
Category:Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Category:Anniston, Alabama