WMBB

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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: WMBB is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Panama City, Florida . the station is owned by Nexstar Media Group . when it first took to the air, the station was originally an NBC affiliate . Originally, the station was positioned to be the NBC affiliate for Tallahassee . on January 4, 1982, WMBB became an ABC affiliate . crosstown rival WJHG had been the market’s original in 1989, an air force fighter jet clipped a wire at WMBB’s Frink tower . the tower, antenna, and transmitter were completely destroyed . on may 18, 1989, a fighter jet crashed into WM channel 13 was sold to Spartan Communications in 1990 . WMBB began broadcasting from a new 1,500-foot (457 m) state-of-the-art antenna and transmitter tower in Youngstown . in 1993, WMBB refused clearance to the ABC show NYPD Blue . instead, it aired syndicated programming during the timeslot . then-General Manager Hugh Roche kept the show off the station until 1997 media general purchased the Jackson County Floridan newspaper . WMBB then established a Jackson County Bureau and covered Jackson County . this caught the eye of the federal communications commission . media general divested all of their newspapers to Warren Buffett’s world media holdings in June 2012 . on march 14, 2008, it was announced that Media General would sell the station (and then-sister KALB-TV the network originally aired on WBIF after that channel stopped airing content from the Retro Television Network (RTV) it’s replacement was supposed to be WPGX-DT2 but this never made it to air . the deal made WMBB a sister station to Dothan’s ABC affiliate, WDHN . on January 17, 2017, Nexstar completed its purchase of media general . the station was knocked off the air on October 10, WMBB announced on their Facebook page that they would add another newscast starting September 12 . this is actually a return to doing a news program during the midday time slot since the station used to produce a midday program He also served as their news director from 2005 to 2010.