WALB News 10

WALB News 10 is a television station in Albany, Georgia, United States, serving Southwestern Georgia as an affiliate of NBC and ABC.https://www.walb.com/about-us/
== History ==
The channel was created on February 2, 2023.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDh17rllR-hswDLbF59_oUQ
The station signed on the air on April 7, 1954, and was owned by Gray Communications (now Gray Television) along with WALB radio (1590 AM) and The Albany Herald.
The latter network was dropped in 1955 when it shut down and ABC remained on WALB until 1980 when WVGA (now WSWG) started up in Valdosta. 
== News operation ==
For many years, WALB was the only big three affiliate to produce local news that actually focused on Albany. For most of WSWG's early tenure as a CBS affiliate, it served as a semi-satellite of WCTV in Tallahassee and simulcasted that station's newscasts with no Southwestern Georgia-specific segments. This changed when Gray sold off WSWG after reacquiring WALB; WSWG has since launched its own news operation.
In 2004, WALB gave its news operation a complete makeover renaming itself from NewsCenter 10 to WALB News 10. It also changed its logo as part of a graphics change. However, it kept the "little one, big zero" 10 which has been part of the logo since the late 1970s at the earliest. This is similar to sister station WIS in Columbia, South Carolina. The station also changed its music from "The Team to Watch", composed by VTS Productions to "The Tower", composed by 615 Music, which was used by many other NBC affiliates. Continuing its modernization, WALB built a new set in 2005 replacing the previous one used for at least twelve years.
Its weekday morning show, Today in Georgia, was expanded to a full two hours (from 5 to 7 a.m.) beginning September 10, 2007, coinciding with the expansion of Today to a four-hour program. On August 4, 2012, WALB upgraded local news production to high definition level. The change made it the second station in the market to perform the upgrade (WSWG's simulcast of WCTV's news programs was first back on August 3, 2009).
With the addition of ABC to WALB-DT2, there are simulcasts of local newscasts from the main NBC channel. More specifically, this includes the second hour of Today in Georgia, its midday show at noon, as well as weeknight newscasts at 6 and 11. In addition, the area's first prime time broadcast at 7 was added on weeknights that is exclusive to the ABC subchannel. Weekend newscasts are simulcast on both of WALB's NBC and ABC channels although there can be a delay or pre-emption on one due to network obligations.
On September 6, 2016, WALB added a half-hour of news at 4 p.m., WALB News 10 – First News at 4.https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/walb-soon-deliver-southwest-georgia-first-earliest-news-400-pm/
As of 2021, WALB presently broadcasts 26 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday, and an hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).
== Channel Milestone ==
=== Subscriber milestone ===
*1000 subscribers: November 27, 2023
=== Video View milestone ===
*100,000 views = May 2023
*200,000 views = June 2023
*300,000 views August 2023
*400,000 views = December 2023
== References ==
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