WCOV-TV (channel 20) is a television station in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

The three stations share studios on WCOV Avenue in the Normandale section of Montgomery; WCOV-TV's transmitter is located southeast of Grady along the Montgomery–Crenshaw county line.

WCOV owners attempted to have the playing field leveled by proposing either a move of WSFA-TV to UHF or of WCOV-TV to VHF, but neither was approved.

A 1996 tornado destroyed the tower from which the station broadcast in Montgomery; WCOV-TV did not return to full power until the next year.

[9] Christmas Day 1954 brought Montgomery a second television station, this time on VHF, when WSFA-TV began broadcasting as an NBC affiliate on channel 12.

The fire was caused by a short circuit inside an electric clock, which lost an estimated $500,000 total in damages.

[16] The Covington family sold WCOV radio and television in 1964 for $1.225 million to Gay-Bell Broadcasting, which owned WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky.

In 1968, it attempted to buy the channel 8 station in Selma, WSLA-TV, which was silent at the time following its destruction by fire,[19] but nothing ever materialized.

[20] In 1976, WSLA-TV filed once more for an application to build a maximum-powered site, this time from a tall tower near Lowndesboro.

[28] WSLA-TV's power increase, according to the FCC administrative law judge that had approved the application in 1981, would not jeopardize the service of Montgomery's two UHF television stations.

The station applied to the FCC to resume full-power operations using space on WSFA's 1,630-foot (497 m) tower in Grady, with a power increase from 617 to 2,667 kilowatts.

In January 1997, the station activated its new transmission facility, which doubled channel 20's coverage area and secured it positions on 23 additional cable systems in the Montgomery market.

[37] On December 15, 2021, it was announced that Allen Media Group, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Entertainment Studios, would purchase WCOV-TV, WIYC and WALE-LD for $28.5 million.

The station shut down its news department in September 1986, nine months after losing the CBS affiliation and shortly before joining Fox.

In its last ratings book, channel 20's newscasts were a solid, if distant, runner-up to WSFA, with more viewers than WAKA and WKAB combined.