Today, WSFA 12 News celebrates 68 years of service for central and south Alabama!
“The Oklahoma Broadcasting people had a newspaper background and news was big with them, unlike a lot of stations at the time,” explained former WSFA News Director and Anchor Charles Caton. “Many stations had no local news programming at first.
WSFA was one of the first stations outside the nation’s top ten largest markets to own film processing equipment. During the late 1950s WSFA fed many stories to the networks each week and processed more film than any station south of the nation’s Capitol. In 1959, WSFA-TV was purchased by The Broadcasting Company of the South. The 1960s were exciting times in television. The old black-and-white pictures gave way to color, and videotape changed the way stations operated. In the mid-1970s, WSFA erected its “tall tower.” At the time, it was the third tallest man-made structure in the world!
Betsy Plummer, the first lady of Montgomery television, was host of"How Do You Do It?" Catherine Wright interviewed many nationally-known guests on the"Guest Room," and her teenage daughter, Toni Tennille, played the piano and sang on many of the local programs. She later became world famous as part of"Captain and Tennille."
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