WDVZ-CA, an This TV affiliate that's part of the WVUA that's licensed to Moundville, has received a CP modification to boost its digital construction permit and relocate the transmitter site.
The original permit for 300 watts from the old WDBB-TV tower on Jug Factory Road in Tuscaloosa county, which would have covered most of Tuscaloosa County. The new permit, for 3,000 watts, will be from the Tuscaloosa Tall Tower (currently used by WDBB-DT and some ham radio repeaters) and will cover a larger amount of west Alabama.
It's possible this move is due to Tuscaloosa's WUOA-DT failing to properly cover Tuscaloosa. Broadcasting on analog channel 23 from the tall tower site, it covered a lot of territory, but after the digital switchover, it took on WBRC's old channel 6 allocation and transmit site atop Red Mountain. So, despite being licensed to Tuscaloosa and mostly covering Tuscaloosa during newscasts, the off the air signal is almost impossible to receive in T-town itself. The station is still watchable in Tuscaloosa thanks to WVUA-CA, but it's analog only. WDVZ-CD's moving to the Tuscaloosa Tall Tower should alleviate some of the coverage issues WUOA-DT has, but being on VHF-lo like WUOA certainly won't help things. VHF-lo is a bad place for digital TV.
WDVZ-CA is an analog allocation, also on RF channel 3, but has been off the air for some time.
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