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WVTM-TV
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Birmingham/Tuscaloosa/
Anniston, Alabama
Branding Alabama's 13 (general)
Alabama's 13 News (newscasts)
Slogan Where Accuracy Matters
Channels Digital: 13 (VHF)
Subchannels (see article)
Affiliations NBC
Me-TV (DT2)
Owner Media General, Inc.
(Media General Communications Holdings, LLC)
First air date May 29, 1949
Call letters' meaning Vulcan
(in reference to statue)
Times
Mirror
(former owners)
Former callsigns WAFM-TV (1949–1953)
WABT (1953–1958)
WAPI-TV (1958–1980)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
13 (VHF; 1949–2009)
Digital:
52 (UHF; until 2009)
Former affiliations Primary:
CBS (sole primary 1949–1954, joint primary with NBC 1961–1965)
Secondary:
CBS (1965–1970)
ABC (1949–1961)
Transmitter power 20 kW
Height 403 m
Facility ID 74173
Transmitter coordinates 33°29′25.9″N 86°47′47.7″W / 33.490528°N 86.796583°W / 33.490528; -86.796583
Website www.alabamas13.com

WVTM-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station serving the Birmingham-Anniston-Tuscaloosa-Gadsden television market in Alabama. Owned by Media General, it broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 from a transmitter located at its studios atop Red Mountain, between Vulcan Trail and Valley View Drive, in southeastern Birmingham (to the immediate east of the studios of Fox affiliate WBRC). The station can also be seen on Bright House Networks channel 8, and Xfinity and AT&T U-verse channel 13, and in HD on Bright House Networks digital channel 652, Xfinity channel 432 and AT&T U-verse channel 1013. Syndicated programming featured on WVTM includes: Anderson Live, The 700 Club, Ellen, and Degrassi: The Next Generation.

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Digital television [edit]

Channel Video Aspect Name Programming
13.1 1080i 16:9 WVTM-DT Main WVTM-TV programming / NBC
13.2 480i 4:3 WVTMRTV Me-TV[1]
Former WVTM-DT2 logo, under the RTV affiliation.

In 2008, WVTM added the Retro Television Network to one of its digital channels, replacing the defunct NBC WeatherPlus.[2]

WVTM replaced RTV with Me-TV as part of a groupwide affiliation agreement with Media General; the channel replaced RTV on some Media General-owned stations in other markets.[3]

Analog-to-digital conversion [edit]

As part of the analog television shutdown on June 12, 2009, WVTM was one of more than ten stations requesting a power increase due to the problems of VHF digital signals.[4] The station then moved back to channel 13 for its post-transition operations.[5]

History [edit]

The station signed on the air on May 29, 1949, as WAFM-TV, owned by The Voice of Alabama, Inc. along with radio stations WAPI (AM 1070), and WAFM (FM 94.5, now WJOX). It is Alabama's oldest television station. It was originally a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation.

In 1953, the Birmingham News bought the Voice of Alabama and changed WAFM-TV's calls to WABT (for Alabama's Best Television). A year later, WABT swapped primary affiliations with WBRC-TV and became an NBC affiliate. In 1956, the Newhouse newspaper chain bought the News. The station changed call signs again in 1958 when it became WAPI-TV to match its sister radio stations. (The calls stood for Alabama Polytechnic Institute, which owned WAPI radio from 1925 through 1932.)

WBRC-TV took the ABC affiliation on a full-time basis in 1961, forcing WAPI-TV to shoehorn both NBC and CBS programs into its schedule. This was rather unusual, since in most two-station markets ABC was relegated to secondary status on either one or both of the existing stations. The Birmingham market is a fairly large market geographically, stretching across nearly the entire width of the state. It also has some areas of fairly rugged terrain. Both of these factors made prospective station owners skittish about putting one of the available UHF allocations on the air, even though Birmingham was big enough even then to support three full network affiliates. Although there were two other VHF channels in the market, they had both been allocated to Alabama Educational Television.

While channel 13 tried to carry the most popular NBC and CBS shows, a lot of quite popular shows did not air in Birmingham because of this arrangement. One of the more popular CBS shows that WAPI-TV did not carry was The Ed Sullivan Show, meaning that central Alabama viewers missed The Beatles' American debut unless they were lucky enough to pick up stations in Atlanta, Huntsville or Montgomery. Curiously, one of the NBC shows that channel 13 turned down was The Tonight Show. WAPI-TV strongly favored NBC for news, so when CBS and NBC expanded their news programs to 30 minutes in the early 1960s, the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite wasn't seen in Birmingham for several years. This was due, of course, to both networks' feeding their newscasts to affiliates at 5:30 pm Central Time (like today). Channel 13 had its local newscast at 6 pm Central time, and prior to 1971, prime-time network programming began at 6:30 pm Central time. This left no room on the schedule for the CBS Evening News to air, even if the station management had wanted to broadcast it.

When WBMG-TV (channel 42, now WIAT) started operations in 1965, it nominally had a CBS affiliation, but CBS allowed WAPI-TV to continue airing its higher-rated programming. This was largely because WBMG had only started one year after the Federal Communications Commission required that new television sets include all-channel tuning. To fill out the schedule, WBMG aired some NBC programming that WAPI-TV turned down (such as The Tonight Show). Both stations listed "CBS/NBC" as their affiliation. However, in May 1970, for a number of reasons, WAPI-TV became the exclusive NBC affiliate, sending all of CBS's programming to WBMG. At the same time that channel 13 became an exclusive affiliate of NBC and WBMG aligned with CBS, WCFT in Tuscaloosa and WHMA in Anniston also affiliated with CBS. Prior to that time, the primetime schedule of WCFT and WHMA virtually mirrored that of WBMG.

The Newhouse company, Advance Publications, withdrew from broadcasting in the early 1980s. WAPI-TV was sold to Times-Mirror Broadcasting in 1980, and as a result the station became WVTM (for Vulcan Times-Mirror), and remains with those call letters to this day.

In 1993, the station was purchased by Argyle Broadcasting. In 1994, New World Communications, which had recently cut an affiliation deal with Fox Broadcasting Company, agreed to purchase WVTM along with its sister stations KTVI in St. Louis, Missouri, KDFW in Dallas, Texas, and KTBC in Austin, Texas. However, New World also decided to purchase several stations from Great American Broadcasting, including WBRC. New World was able to close on its purchase of WBRC on October 12, 1994 because the transfer applications of the Argyle stations were not submitted to the FCC until after the Citicasters (renamed from Great American Broadcasting) purchase was already finalized. However, WBRC and WGHP in High Point, North Carolina were immediately placed in an outside trust company since Citicasters changed its plans for both stations and decided to sell them directly to Fox once it discovered New World's plan to purchase the Argyle stations (which would have left New World over the FCC-mandated limit of 12 stations that was in effect at the time).

In January 1995, while awaiting for the Argyle purchase to receive FCC approval, New World took over the operations of the Argyle stations, including WVTM, through time brokerage agreements. The transfers of WBRC and WGHP to the trust were completed in early April 1995 while the New World purchase of the Argyle stations closed on April 14. As such, WVTM retained its NBC affiliation, while KTVI (the former St. Louis ABC affiliate), KDFW (the former Dallas/Fort Worth CBS affiliate), and KTBC (the former Austin CBS affiliate) became Fox affiliates. Fox operated WBRC as an ABC affiliate until 1996.

New World sold off all its stations in late 1996. Its Fox affiliates were sold to Fox outright, while its two NBC stations (WVTM and KNSD channel 39 in San Diego) were sold to NBC.[6]

WVTM was one of four NBC-owned stations in smaller markets that were put up for sale on January 9, 2006, along with WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio, and WNCN in Raleigh, North Carolina.[7] On April 6, 2006, NBC Universal and Media General announced that Media General would purchase WVTM-TV as part of a $600 million four-station deal between the two companies [2]. Media General subsequently announced that it would sell its existing station in Birmingham, WIAT, since the FCC does not allow for one company to own two of the four largest stations in a single market. Media General closed the deal on all four stations on June 26, 2006 – after the FCC granted the company a temporary waiver allowing it to keep both WVTM and WIAT for six months. On August 2, it was announced that Media General sold WIAT to New Vision Television.[8]

Chronology [edit]

Date Call Ch City of
License		 Main
Studio		 Network ERP (W) Altitude RCAGL Tx Latitude/Longitude Owner
May 29, 1949 WAFM-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham CBS/ABC The Voice of Alabama, Inc.
July 1953 WABT 13 Birmingham Birmingham CBS/ABC The Birmingham News Company
1954 WABT 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC/ABC 316000 311 m 154 m 33°29′27″N 86°47′48″W / 33.49083°N 86.79667°W / 33.49083; -86.79667 The Birmingham News Company
Jan 26, 1956 WABT 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC/ABC 316000 Advance Publications
1958 WAPI-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC/ABC 316000 Advance Publications
1961 WAPI-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC/CBS 316000 Advance Publications
Dec 6, 1965 WAPI-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC 316000 Advance Publications
March 28, 1980 WVTM-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC 316000 Times-Mirror Company
June 24, 1981 WVTM-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC 316000 297 m 303 m 33°29′26″N 86°47′48″W / 33.49056°N 86.79667°W / 33.49056; -86.79667 Times-Mirror Company
May 14, 1993 WVTM-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC 316000 297 m 303 m 33°29′26″N 86°47′48″W / 33.49056°N 86.79667°W / 33.49056; -86.79667 Argyle Television Holding (Now Hearst-Argyle Television)
April 1, 1995 WVTM-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC 316000 297 m 303 m 33°29′26″N 86°47′48″W / 33.49056°N 86.79667°W / 33.49056; -86.79667 New World Communications
July 27, 1996 WVTM-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC 316000 297 m 303 m 33°29′26″N 86°47′48″W / 33.49056°N 86.79667°W / 33.49056; -86.79667 NBC
June 23, 2006 WVTM-TV 13 Birmingham Birmingham NBC 316000 297 m 303 m 33°29′26″N 86°47′48″W / 33.49056°N 86.79667°W / 33.49056; -86.79667 Media General

News operation [edit]

WVTM newscast title card; seen nightly at 10

The station also went through numerous name changes from NewsCenter13, to NewsWatch13 and its morning newscast 13 Alive to 13 Action News and then 13 and You, an ode to NBC and You to Alabama's 13, People Who Care; NBC13, We've Got You Covered; NBC13, Accuracy Matters; and now back to Alabama's 13. WVTM, currently known on air as Alabama's 13, runs more than 35 hours of local news a week along with NBC network news.

In 2004, WVTM became the first television station in Alabama to obtain a 1-million watt Doppler weather radar system originally dubbed "Skywatch Doppler One Million", "WeatherPlus Doppler One Million", now called "Alabama's 13 Live Doppler Radar", located on Bald Rock Mountain in St. Clair County, Alabama.

On October 17, 2007, WVTM began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the first television station in Alabama to broadcast their local newscasts in HD.

News/Station presentation [edit]

Newscast titles [edit]

  • The WAFM-TV Newsreel (1949-1953)
  • WABT News (1953-1958)
  • WAPI News (1958-1965)
  • Dateline News (1965-1970)
  • NewsCenter 13 (1970-1974)
  • NewsWatch 13 (general) / 13 Alive (morning newscast; 1974–1979)
  • Action News 13 (1979–1980)
  • TV-13 News/Channel 13 News (1980–1991)[9]
  • Alabama`s Prime News (6 p.m. newscast; 1987–1991)[10]
  • Alabama's 13 News Midday (11 a.m. morning newscast; 1991-1995)
  • Alabama's 13 First News (5 p.m. newscast; 1991–1995)
  • Alabama's 13 News Six O'Clock (6 p.m. newscast; 1991-1995)
  • Alabama's 13 News Tonight/Alabama's 13 News Night Team (10 p.m. newscast; 1991-1995)
  • Alabama's 13 News Weekend (5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscast; 1991-1995)
  • Alabama's 13 News (1991–1995 and 2010–present)[11]
  • NBC 13 News (1995–2007)[12]
  • NBC 13 HD News (2007–2010)

Station slogans [edit]

  • "WAPI-TV, The Station of Alabama" (January–December 1976; sweeps, due to the Bicentennial)
  • "Alabama's Leading News Station" (late 1970s–1987)
  • "13, Proud as a Peacock" (1979-1981)
  • "The New 13, Your Station On The Move" (1981-1983)
  • "Channel 13, Now Clearly The News Leader" (1981-1984)
  • "We're Channel 13, Just Watch Us Now" (1982-1983)
  • "Birmingham's Leading News Station" (1983–1985)
  • "Channel 13, Let's All Be There" (1984-1986)
  • "Hello Birmingham, Channel 13 Loves You" (1985–1987; used during period station used Frank Gari's "Hello News" later said "NBC 13 Loves You")
  • "Come Home to Channel 13" (1986-1987)
  • "We've Got it Good, Alabama!" (1986–2005; general)[13]
  • "Come on Home to Channel 13" (1987-1988)
  • "Come Home to the Best, Only on Channel 13"/"Come Home to the Best, Only on TV-13" (1988-1990)
  • "13 and You" (1990–1991)
  • "13, The Place to Be!" (1990-1992)
  • "Got Everybody Watching WVTM!" (1990s)
  • "It's A Whole New Alabama's 13" (1992-1993)
  • "Alabama's 13, People Who Care" (1991–1995)
  • "The Stars Are Back on Alabama's 13 (1993-1994)
  • "Alabama's Emmy Winning News Station" (1993-1995)
  • "From The Heart of Alabama" (1995-1996; news slogan)
  • "Sweet Home Alabama" (1996-1997; image campaign)[14][15]
  • "We've Got You Covered" (1996–2007; news slogan)[16]
  • "The NewsCenter of Alabama" (1998–2010; news slogan)
  • "Accuracy Matters" (2007–present)
  • "We Are Alabama" (2012-present)

News staff [edit]

Current on-air staff[17] [edit]

Anchors

  • Bettina Boateng – weekday mornings on Today in Alabama (4:30-7:00 a.m.); also reporter and fill-in weathercaster
  • Lisa Crane – weekday mornings on Today in Alabama (4:30-7:00) and weekdays at 11:00 a.m.; also weekday morning traffic and general assignment reporter
  • Hilary Golston – weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 and Saturdays at 6:00 p.m.
  • Andrea Lindenberg – weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
  • Ashley Roberts – weekend mornings Today in Alabama (5:00-6:00 and 8:00-9:00 Saturdays + 5:00-7:00, 8:00-9:00 and 10:00-11:00 a.m. Sundays); also weeknight reporter
  • Mike Royer – weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.

Alabama's 13 Weather

  • Jerry Tracey (AMS Seal of Approval) – chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
  • Richard Jacks – meteorologist; weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 and Saturdays at 6:00 p.m.; also weeknight fill-in
  • Harmony Mendoza – meteorologist; weekend mornings Today in Alabama (5:00-6:00 and 8:00-9:00 Saturdays + 5:00-7:00, 8:00-9:00 and 10:00-11:00 a.m. Sundays)
  • Stephanie Walker (AMS Seal of Approval) – meteorologist; weekday mornings on Today in Alabama (4:30-7:00) and weekdays at 11:00 a.m.

Sports team

  • Don Hawes – sports director; weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
  • Kyle Burger - sports anchor; weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 and Saturdays at 6:00 p.m.

Reporters

  • Meredith Armstrong – digital journalist
  • Paris Jackson – general assignment reporter
  • Jon Paepcke – investigative reporter; also fill-in anchor
  • Linda White – education reporter
  • Kalisha Whitman – digital journalist

Daytime Alabama (weekday mornings at 11:30 a.m., repeated the next weekday at 7:30 a.m. on WVTM-DT2 MeTV)

  • Wendy Garner – co-host
  • David Lamb – co-host

Notable former staff [edit]

  • Elizabeth Artz Hayes - weekend and weekday evening anchor (2002-2007; now a freelance reporter at WSB-TV in Atlanta)
  • Richard Charles "Dick Breit" Breitenfeld - morning and noon news and meteorologist (1962-1990; deceased)
  • Jenny Burleson - Health Reporter and the host of "We've Got it Good, Alabama!" (1984-1992)
  • Mindy Burns - sports reporter (2002-2004)
  • Denise Cannon - weekend news anchor (1974-1980)
  • Rob Carlin - Sports Reporter/Anchor (2001-2005; Comcast Sportsnet/NBC Sports)
  • Rod Carter weekend morning news anchor (1996-2000, 2007-2010; now at WFLA-TV in Tampa)
  • Sophia Choi – weekend morning anchor (1991-1996; now at WSB-TV in Atlanta)
  • Bob Chumley (1950s-1960s deceased)
  • Malena Cunningham (Wells) - weekday evening anchor (1992-2004)
  • Fran Curry - weekday morning anchor and weekend evening anchor (1988-2007)
  • Mary Beth Cusack - reporter, weekday evening anchor morning and midday anchor (1994-1997)
  • Brad Davis - weekend evening anchor (1978-1979; deceased)
  • Christy Dreyer (Lucarelli) - weekend meteorologists (1998-2000)
  • Jim Dunaway - weekend sports reporter later morning news anchor (1992-2007; now at WIAT)
  • Theresa Durden - weekday evening anchor (1996-2001)
  • Maury Ferrell - sports anchor (1950-1963; deceased)
  • Gil Fire - weekend evening anchor (1966-1979; deceased)
  • Bill Fitzgerald - anchor/reporter (1999-2004; now at WTVR-TV in Richmond)
  • Vanessa Flowers - Health & General Assignment Reporter (2001-2004; now at KOLN in Lincoln)
  • Mickey Ferguson - weekend morning weather anchor (1991-1993; now at WBRC)
  • Angela Green - reporter (1999-2007)
  • Scott Griffin - weekend sports anchor (1985-1991; now at WBRC)
  • Glenn Halbrooks - weekend evening anchor (1992-1995; now at WAKA-TV in Montgomery)
  • Jennifer Hale - reporter/weekend anchor (2006-2009; now reporter at WVUE-DT in New Orleans)
  • Wendell Harris - weekday evening anchor (1960-1981; deceased)
  • Tracey Haynes - weekend morning anchor & general assignment reporter (1990-1994)
  • Cliff Holman (Cousin Cliff) - kids shows (1954-1968; deceased)
  • Pam Huff - weekday evening anchor (1977-1994; now at WBMA/WCFT/WJSU)
  • Melony Johnson - midday anchor (1998-2002)
  • Rob Jones - weekend sports anchor (2005-2010)
  • Michael Jones - weekend evening anchor (1977-1982)
  • Mark Joyella - reporter (1991-1994; now at WFTV in Orlando)
  • Renee Kemp - weekend evening anchor (1984-1990)
  • Joe Langston - anchor (1981-1982)
  • Ken Lass - weekday evening sports anchor and morning news anchor (1982-2006; now at WIAT)
  • Gene Lively - weekday evening anchor (1983-1994; retired)
  • Edward McDonald - weeknights sports anchor (2004-2005)
  • Kevin MacDowell - weekday evening anchor (1994-1996; last at WICU-TV in Erie)
  • Jon Mason - weekend weather anchor (1995-1997)
  • David Mattingly - news anchor, reporter and documentary producer (1981-1992; now at CNN)
  • Scott Mauldin - senior reporter (1998-2009; now at Vulcan Media)
  • Terri Merryman - weekday evening anchor (1993-1996)
  • Mike Moore - weekday and weekend evening anchor (1995-2005; last at WGCL-TV in Atlanta)
  • Juliette Meeus - reporter (1983-1985)
  • Larry Nobles - weeknight weather anchor (1984-1987)
  • Jennifer Oravet - reporter/producer (now at WSFA in Montgomery)
  • Melissa Pace - weekday morning anchor (2002-2005; now in Los Angeles)
  • Scott Palmer - sports anchor (1973-1979; retired)
  • Brendt Petersen - reporter (1990-1994; now at WFTV in Orlando)
  • Trevor Pettiford - weekend evening anchor (2006-2008; now at Bay News 9 in Tampa)
  • Steve Phillips - sports anchor (1987-1990; currently at WBIR-TV in Knoxville, TN)
  • Chris Pollone - senior news reporter, sports anchor & reporter (2000-2011; now at NBC Newschannel in New York City)
  • Richard Pope - weekend morning sports anchor (1994-1996)
  • Jay Prater - weekend meteorologist (1980s-1993; now at KAKE-TV in Wichita)
  • Theresa Racine - weekend evening anchor (1980-1985; retired)
  • Gina Redmond - weekday morning and evening anchor (2005-2010; now at WIAT)
  • Tom Roberts - sports anchor and news anchor (1972-1992; now a Crimson Tide Sports Network)
  • Janice Rogers - weekend evening anchor/reporter (1992-1994; now at WBRC)
  • Phil Rozen - weekday evening anchor (1982-1995)
  • Buddy Rutledge - sports anchor (1965-1967; deceased)
  • Gary Sanders - sports anchor (1971-1980; now voice of the Auburn Tigers Announcer)
  • Steve Sanders – reporter (1979-1982; currently at WGN-TV in Chicago)
  • Matthew Simon - reporter (1988-2000)
  • Ken Snow - weekday evening anchor (1975-1980)
  • Brooke Smith - traffic reporter (2003-2011; now at WIAT)
  • Shelia Smoot - fill-in anchor/Anniston bureau reporter (1994-1996)
  • James Spann – meteorologist (1981-1983; now WBMA-LP/WCFT/WJSU)
  • Emily Stroud - anchor/health reporter (1995-1999; now at WBIR-TV in Knoxville)
  • Rene Syler – weekend anchor (1990-1992; later at KTVT in Dallas-Ft. Worth, then at CBS' The Early Show)
  • Bill Todd - reporter (1983-1987)
  • Derek Toomey - weekend anchor/reporter (1996-2000; now at WSB-TV in Atlanta)
  • Heather Unruh - weekend morning anchor/health reporter (1992-1995; now at WCVB-TV in Boston)
  • Ken Ward - reporter (2001-2004; deceased)
  • Sharrie Williams - sports reporter (2005-2007; now at KTVT in Dallas, TX)
  • Herb Winches - sports anchor/reporter (1980-1982)
  • Roy L Wood, Jr. - anchor and reporter (mid 1980s-1992)

References [edit]

  1. ^ Where to watch MeTV: WVTM
  2. ^ "Equity Media's RTN Adds Birmingham Affiliate". Reuters. January 7, 2008. 
  3. ^ Me-TV Beefs Up Roster With 10 New Stations, TVNewsCheck, September 15, 2011.
  4. ^ Eggerton, John (June 29, 2009). "Boise Station Gets Power Boost". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved July 1, 2009. 
  5. ^ CDBS Print
  6. ^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NBC+and+New+World+Announce+Closing+of+Sale+of+Birmingham+TV+Station...-a018577416
  7. ^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Media+General+Completes+Purchase+of+Four+NBC+Television+Stations.-a0147479313
  8. ^ [1]
  9. ^ WVTM 6PM News Open & Close 1981
  10. ^ Birmingham News Opens, Closes and Promos (2)
  11. ^ WVTM Alabama 13 News at 10 Open (HD) 2011
  12. ^ WVTM NBC13 News Today Open (2002)
  13. ^ We Got It Good Alabama
  14. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w63Z8HgeZzM
  15. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46N_lP40a_I
  16. ^ WVTM NBC13 Montage (WNBC era)
  17. ^ News team

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