Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. In the 2020 Census, Montgomery's population was 200,603. It is the third most populous city in Alabama, after Birmingham and Huntsville, and is the 119th most populous in the United States. The Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area's population in 2020 was 386,047; it is the fourth largest in the state and 142nd among United States metropolitan areas.
Huntingdon College is a private Methodist liberal arts college in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1854 as a women's college.
WZHT is a Mainstream Urban formatted radio station that broadcasts on the 105.7 MHz frequency licensed to Troy, Alabama, that serves the Montgomery area. It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., and is one-third of the all-urban Montgomery cluster, complementing urban AC's WWMG and urban gospel's WHLW. The studios for the three stations are located in East Montgomery near Eastdale Mall, and WZHT shares a transmitter with television station WSFA in Grady, Alabama. The transmitter location gives WZHT an unusually large coverage as such, which has one of the tallest towers in the Southern United States at 1,830 feet; it was acknowledged in its former slogan "The Station You Hear Everywhere".
The Dunn–Oliver Acadome is a 7,400-seat multi-purpose arena in Montgomery, Alabama. Opened in 1992, it is home to the Alabama State Hornets basketball team of Alabama State University.
WDHN, virtual channel 18, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Dothan, Alabama, United States and serving the Wiregrass Region of southeastern Alabama. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. WDHN's studios and transmitter are located on AL 52 in Webb.
WNCF, virtual channel 32, branded on-air as ABC 32, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Owned by Augusta, Georgia-based SagamoreHill Broadcasting, the station is operated under a shared services agreement (SSA) by Bahakel Communications, making it sister to Bahakel's duopoly of Selma-licensed CBS affiliate WAKA and Tuskegee-licensed CW+ affiliate WBMM. The stations share studios on Harrison Road in north Montgomery, while WNCF's transmitter is located in Gordonville, Alabama.
WTVY, virtual channel 4, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Dothan, Alabama, United States and serving the Wiregrass Region of southeastern Alabama. Owned by Gray Television, it is a sister station to low-powered dual NBC/CW+ affiliate WRGX-LD. The two stations share studios on North Foster Street in downtown Dothan and transmitter facilities in Bethlehem, Florida.
WDFX-TV, virtual channel 34, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Ozark, Alabama, United States and serving the Wiregrass Region of southeastern Alabama, including Dothan. The station is owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group. WDFX-TV's studios are located on Ross Clark Circle in Dothan, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated Wicksburg.
WSFA, virtual channel 12, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Montgomery, Alabama, United States, serving the Black Belt and River Region of central Alabama. The station is owned by Atlanta-based Gray Television. WSFA's studios are located on Dexter Avenue in Downtown Montgomery, and its transmitter is located in Grady along the Montgomery–Pike county line.
WCOV-TV, virtual channel 20, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Owned by David Woods and his Woods Communications Corporation, it is part of a duopoly with Troy-licensed Cozi TV affiliate WIYC ; it is also sister to Montgomery-licensed low-power Justice Network affiliate WALE-LD. The stations share studios on WCOV Avenue in the Normandale section of Montgomery, while WCOV-TV's transmitter is located southeast of Grady along the Montgomery–Crenshaw county line.
WLWI is a radio station licensed to serve Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and the license is held by Cumulus Licensing, LLC. The WLWI studios are located on the third floor of The Colonial Financial Center in downtown Montgomery, and the transmitter tower is in Montgomery's southside.
Todd Strange is an American politician and businessman who served as the 56th mayor of Montgomery, Alabama. Strange won a special election and took office on March 24, 2009, after his predecessor, Democrat Bobby Bright, was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Although municipal elections in Montgomery are nonpartisan, Strange is a Republican.
Montgomery Mall was an enclosed shopping mall in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Opened in 1970, it closed in 2008 after several years of declining traffic. In February 2013, redevelopment began on the vacant mall property. There are 3 vacant anchor stores that were once Steve & Barry's, JCPenney, and Parisian.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
Steven L. Reed is an American jurist and politician serving as the Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a probate judge in Montgomery County.
The W.A. Gayle Planetarium is operated by Troy University for the city of Montgomery, Alabama. It provides public presentations and exhibits on astronomy, planetary science, and space exploration.
Joe Louis Reed Sr. is an American politician, activist and educator. He is the current Vice-Chair of Minority Affairs of the Alabama Democratic Party and, since 1979, chair of the Alabama Democratic Conference (ADC). He also served as president of the all-Black Alabama State Teachers Association prior to its merger with the all-White Alabama Education Association in 1969, and then served as associate executive secretary alongside Executive Secretary Paul Hubbert from 1969 until both leaders retired from the AEA in 2011.
The killing of Greg Gunn occurred on the morning of February 25, 2016, in Montgomery, Alabama. Gunn, a 58-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed near his home after fleeing from a stop-and-frisk initiated by Aaron Cody Smith, a white police officer. Smith was charged with murder and indicted by a grand jury in 2016. The case came to trial in late 2019 following a change of venue to Ozark, Alabama. Smith was found guilty of manslaughter, and, in January 2020, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Alabama in March 2020. As of January 10, 2022, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADHP) reported nearly a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 16,630 confirmed deaths. At 330 deaths per 100,000 Alabama has the highest death rate in the US along with Mississippi.
The RSA Judicial Building, also known as RSA Dexter Avenue Building, is office high-rise in Montgomery, Alabama owned by Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA) completed in 2011. Built on the grounds of the former home of the Alabama Supreme Court its incorporates the 1926 three-story courthouse complex called the Judicial Building within its 50 ft (15 m) glass atrium..
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