CBS 42 celebrates 60 years on the air

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) -- CBS 42 is celebrating its diamond jubilee — or, as some like to call it, the start of its golden years.

On this day 60 years ago, this television station went on the air. What is now WIAT began as WBMG, Birmingham’s third commercial television station. To mark the anniversary, CBS 42 took a trip down memory lane with historian Tim Hollis.

"If things had gone the way people thought they would, the station would've been on the air a lot earlier than that. Channel 42 was actually assigned back in the ’50s — in the early ’50s — to Birmingham's legendary radio station WSGN. WSGN-TV never got on the air, and when 42 finally did make it in 1965, most of the on-air talent were WSGN radio personalities," said Hollis.

CBS 42's David Lamb and Hollis discussed more regard