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WAAY 31 ABC, Huntsville |
WEAR 3 ABC Pensacola, Florida/Mobile |
WNCF 32 ABC, Montgomery |
WDBB 17.2 ABC, Tuscaloosa |
CBS |
WIAT 42 CBS, Birmingham |
WTVY 4 CBS, Dothan |
WHNT 19 CBS, Huntsville |
WKRG 5 CBS, Mobile |
WAKA 8 CBS, Selma/Montgomery |
Fox |
WBRC 6 FOX, Birmingham |
WZDX 54 FOX, Huntsville |
WALA 10 FOX, Mobile |
WCOV 20 FOX, Montgomery |
WDFX 34 FOX, Ozark/Dothan |
NBC |
WVTM 13 NBC, Birmingham |
WRGX 23 NBC, Dothan |
WAFF 48 NBC, Huntsville |
WPMI 15 NBC, Mobile |
WSFA 12 NBC, Montgomery |
PBS/Alabama Public Television |
WBIQ 10 PBS, Birmingham |
WIIQ 41 PBS, Demopolis |
WDIQ 2 PBS, Dozier |
WFIQ 36 PBS, Florence |
WHIQ 25 PBS, Huntsville |
WGIQ 43 PBS, Louisville |
WEIQ 42 PBS, Mobile |
WAIQ 26 PBS, Montgomery |
WCIQ 7 PBS, Mount Cheaha |
The CW |
WTTO 21, Homewood/Birmingham |
WTVY 4.3, Dothan |
WHDF 15, Florence/Huntsville |
WFNA 55, Gulf Shores/Mobile/Pensacola, FL |
WDBB 17, Tuscaloosa |
WBMM 22, Tuskegee/Montgomery |
Culture |
Literature |
Alabama literature is characterized by themes of race and issues of gender and war, and is influenced by events such as the American Civil War, the Reconstruction era, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War. Some notable examples of Alabama literature include Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, Winston Groom's Forrest Gump, Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, and the biographies of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. |
Sports |
Professional sports |
Alabama has several professional and semi-professional sports teams, including three minor league baseball teams. |
The Talladega Superspeedway motorsports complex hosts a series of NASCAR events. It has a seating capacity of 143,000 and is the thirteenth largest stadium in the world and sixth largest stadium in America. Also, the Barber Motorsports Park has hosted IndyCar Series and Rolex Sports Car Series races. |
The ATP Birmingham was a World Championship Tennis tournament held from 1973 to 1980. |
Alabama has hosted several professional golf tournaments, such as the 1984 and 1990 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek, the Barbasol Championship (PGA Tour), the Mobile LPGA Tournament of Champions, Airbus LPGA Classic, and Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic (LPGA Tour), and The Tradition (Champions Tour). |
College sports |
College football is extremely popular in Alabama, particularly the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn University Tigers, rivals in the Southeastern Conference. Alabama averages over 100,000 fans per game and Auburn averages over 80,000—both numbers among the top twenty in the nation. Bryant–Denny Stadium is the home of the Alabama football team, and has a seating capacity of 101,821, and is the fifth largest stadium in America. Jordan-Hare Stadium is the home field of the Auburn football team and seats up to 87,451. |
Protective Stadium is home of the UAB Blazers football program and the Birmingham Bowl. It seats 45,000. Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile is the home of the University of South Alabama football team, and serves as the home of the NCAA Senior Bowl, LendingTree Bowl, and Alabama-Mississippi All Star Classic; the stadium seats 40,646. In 2009, Bryant–Denny Stadium and Jordan-Hare Stadium became the homes of the Alabama High School Athletic Association state football championship games, after previously being held at Legion Field in Birmingham. |
Transportation |
Aviation |
Major airports with sustained operations in Alabama include Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM), Huntsville International Airport (HSV), Dothan Regional Airport (DHN), Mobile Regional Airport (MOB), Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM), Northwest Alabama Regional Airport (MSL) and Northeast Alabama Regional Airport (GAD). |
Rail |
For rail transport, Amtrak schedules the Crescent, a daily passenger train, running from New York to New Orleans with station stops at Anniston, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa. |
Roads |
Alabama has six major interstate routes: Interstate 65 (I-65) travels north–south roughly through the middle of the state; I-20/I-59 travel from the central west Mississippi state line to Birmingham, where I-59 continues to the north-east corner of the state and I-20 continues east towards Atlanta; I-85 originates in Montgomery and travels east-northeast to the Georgia state line, providing a main thoroughfare to Atlanta; and I-10 traverses the southernmost portion of the state, traveling from west to east through Mobile. I-22 enters the state from Mississippi and connects Birmingham with Memphis, Tennessee. In addition, there are currently five auxiliary interstate routes in the state: I-165 in Mobile, I-359 in Tuscaloosa, I-459 around Birmingham, I-565 in Decatur and Huntsville, and I-759 in Gadsden. A sixth route, I-685, will be formed when I-85 is rerouted along a new southern bypass of Montgomery. A proposed northern bypass of Birmingham will be designated as I-422. Since a direct connection from I-22 to I-422 will not be possible, I-222 has been proposed, as well. |
Several U.S. Highways also pass through the state, such as U.S. Route 11 (US-11), US-29, US-31, US-43, US-45, US-72, US-78, US-80, US-82, US-84, US-90, US-98, US-231, US-278, US-280, US-331, US-411, and US-431. |
There are four toll roads in the state: Montgomery Expressway in Montgomery; Northport/Tuscaloosa Western Bypass in Tuscaloosa and Northport; Emerald Mountain Expressway in Wetumpka; and Beach Express in Orange Beach. |
Ports |
The Port of Mobile, Alabama's only saltwater port, is a large seaport on the Gulf of Mexico with inland waterway access to the Midwest by way of the Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway. The Port of Mobile was ranked 12th by tons of traffic in the United States during 2009. The newly expanded container terminal at the Port of Mobile was ranked as the 25th busiest for container traffic in the nation during 2011. The state's other ports are on rivers with access to the Gulf of Mexico. |
Water ports of Alabama, listed from north to south: |
See also |
Index of Alabama-related articles |
Outline of Alabama — organized list of topics about Alabama |
USS Alabama, 7 ships |
Notes |
Subnotes |
Other notes |
References |
Further reading |
Subsets and Splits