WALA

:For the real-life Fox affiliate on the same channel in Mobile, Alabama, see on Wikipedia.
WALA-TV, virtual channel 10 (VHF digital channel 9), is a Fox-affiliated television station serving the Ridgecrest, Alabama broadcast area. The station is owned by Lake Hill Broadcasting. It has studios on Satchel Paige Drive in Ridgecrest, WALA's transmitter is located in Fort Rahm, Alabama. 
The station operates a 24-hour local news and weather channel called "FOX 10 News 24/7" which is available on Cox Communications digital channel 698 and on digital channel 10.4 over-the-air.
== Newscasts ==
WALA currently presents 52 hours of news programming.
After joining FOX in 1996, the station kept all newscasts, adding more newscasts to make up for the loss of NBC News and entertainment.
== The 2020 revamp ==
After Lake Hill bought the station in 2020, the company invested $3.2 million into a revamp of the station. The station had it's employees work from home during the time, taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic into remodeling the station's building. During that time, master control temporarily relocated to Lake Hill's headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, while production of the newscasts were relocated to a temporary control room in a trailer outside of the station. The anchors, meteorologists, and sports anchors all did their newscasts from home, and while reporters did still report from various locations, they were given a laptop to edit and share their stories, as they also got their assignments from home as well. 
The project was kept top secret, and viewers thought the change in the newscast's presentation was due to the pandemic. During that time, a new set was installed, complete with a state of the art weather system and robotic cameras that were 4K ready. The newsroom got a makeover with new computers, screens, desks, and a new assignment desk. The control and master control rooms all got new equipment that were 4K Ultra HD ready. 
There was also some changes to the station itself, with the station installing a new tower that was ATSC 3.0 ready at the current transmitter site, as the station would become the 3.0 host station for the area. The current ATSC 1.0 tower remains. The station also installed a weather radar tower at the station and at 2 more locations throughout the area. The network of radars are branded as the "FOX 10 Hometown radar network."
The new look launched on October 12, 2020, with the new studio and the new Lake Hill standardized graphics. The newscasts rebranded as simply "FOX 10 News."
== News Themes ==
* Production Music: Up To The Minute - Killer Tracks (1999-2001; 2017-2020)
*Daily News- Gari Media Group (2020–present)
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