Sixty-six years ago, in 1953, Montgomery was preparing to sign on its very first television station: WCOV-TV.

WCOV Radio was at 1170 AM (a frequency for which I later worked, in its incarnation as WACV-AM 1170, continuing today as News Talk 93.1). WCOV would sign on as a CBS affiliate but carry programming from NBC, ABC and DuMont. The station is still located on Adrian Lane in the Normandale neighborhood of Montgomery.