from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 6. The station operated its digital transmission facilities under special temporary authorization at a lower effective radiated power until October 2009, when its transmitter was upgraded to full power at 1 megawatt at a position on the tower at . The FCC later granted WBRC to reclaim the top level of the tower for its main antenna, improving its digital coverage area (the former main antenna remains in use as an auxiliary antenna). References External links Birmingham Rewound: Radio-TV Huntsville Rewound-Huntsville AL TV Memories BRC Fox network affiliates Bounce TV affiliates Circle (TV network) affiliates Laff (TV network) affiliates Grit (TV network) affiliates Quest (American TV network) affiliates Gray Television Television channels and stations established in 1949 New World Communications television stations Taft Broadcasting 1949 establishments in Alabama