BROADCAST DATE: Tuesday, December 3, 2002, WAAY-TV, Huntsville, Alabama.
DESCRIPTION: WAAY-TV is an ABC-affiliated television station, broadcasting on channel 31 from Huntsville, Alabama. The station's transmitter is on Monte Sano Mountain, to the east of Huntsville. For many decades, WAAY's newscasts went by "31 Eyewitness News". They now go by WAAY "31 NEWS". Lynda Carter is interviewed discussing about the IBS Syndrome.

	Broadcast Network: WAAY-TV, Huntsville. Time slot: 5:00 A.M. Anchors: KELLER WATTS, CHRISTY DOUGLAS.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS: "31 NEWS" is the morning news program of WAAY-31 TV from Huntsville, and Lynda Carter is featured in a short interview via satellite from Washington talking about the IBS syndrome.

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			RUNNING TIME:	00:50:00 [60 minutes including commercials].
			VHS:	Not available on commercial video.
			DVD:	Not available on commercial video.
			INFO:	This is the first time for LYNDA CARTER to appear on "31 NEWS".
			VIDEO:	[1]  "31 NEWS". Video clip.
			TRIVIA:	[•] Channel 31's first broadcast was on August 1, 1959, using the callsign WAFG-TV. When the station was sold to Smith Broadcasting (owners of WAAY radio) in 1963, the callsign was changed to WAAY-TV. The station switched to NBC in 1968, but went back to ABC in 1977, citing higher network ratings and the lack of a duplicate ABC affiliate in Florence (where WOWL, now WHDF, was an NBC affiliate) as reasons.
				[•] WAAY's 31 News broadcasts air weekdays from 5:00-7:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 4:00-4:30 p.m., 5:00-5:30 p.m., 6:00-6:30 p.m. and 10:00-10:35 p.m., and weekends at 5:30 and 10:00 p.m. WAAY has news bureaus in Decatur and Florence. In the ratings, most of the station's major newscasts rank in third place, though they often ranked #1 during the 1970s and 1980s.
				[•] At one time, all three of Huntsville's major-network affiliates, WAAY included, had studios located beside their transmitters and towers on Monte Sano. After a 1982 fire gutted the building of WAFF, however, that station, and later WHNT, moved their offices and production facilities into the city itself, employing microwave relays to send signals to their transmitters. Only WAAY continues to maintain its full operations on Monte Sano Boulevard.

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