This would leave WOTM-LP 19 in Montevallo as the last analog signal in metro Birmingham, right?
Y'know, I'm not actually sure that this station is on the air, or has been on the air in the last 15 or 20 years. I lived in Helena in the early 2000's and never once picked it up off the air despite being in rather close proximity. Probably around 2005, I drove to the transmitter site coordinates that the FCC has and never saw any evidence of a tower or broadcast antenna on any structure. It was a residential street on a hillside in Alabaster. I had a portable TV with me and got nothing, not even a hint of a signal.
The best I can tell, the programming is really only available via cable in Shelby County.
There's another analog license that I'm aware of, and that's W15AZ in Alabaster, which is a repeater for the Glen Iris WAY TV in Birmingham. I was able to verify that it was on the air back in the 2000's but I had to drive out into the absolute boonies and be within eyesight of the station to pick it up. But that was before W49AY moved to channel 47 and went digital, so I have no idea if this station is still around. The transmitter location was east of I-65 if I remember correctly, way out on a winding dirt road that pretty much lead to nowhere. I only had a faint trace of a picture on the portable TV by the time I got back into Alabaster where I-65 and US 31 intersect just south of downtown.
It seems that since full power stations went digital, the few analog stations left have either slowly withered away or turned in licenses. My website still has a massive list of analog LPTV stations but I don't have ANY current information as to whether any of them are truly on or not. Most entries are orphaned leftovers from stations that flash cut or transitioned to digital. They're still in the FCC database but have been off for years. I just don't really have any way to verify if they can be removed or not, since I lack contacts in most parts of Alabama with functioning outdoor antennas.
I am happy to see that DTV America is adding a bunch of programming options for OTA viewers in Birmingham, even if the PQ is going to be bad and standard definition. I wish they'd bring some more programming down here to Darwin's Waiting Room (Mobile), but our geography seems to work against lower powered broadcasters since everything is so spread out.
