WRBL

WRBL (channel 3) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group.

It would have been the fourth-oldest in Georgia, had WROM-TV, channel 9 in Rome not moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1958, rebranded as WTVC.

WRBL-TV was owned by Jim Woodruff along with WRBL radio (AM 1420, now WRCG, and FM 102.9, now WVRK).

The station has always been a CBS affiliate owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with CBS Radio, but shared ABC with WTVM until the channel switch of 1960, when WTVM switched to ABC to get in line with then co-owned WTVC, also on channel 9.

After his death, banks controlled the station until it was bought by Malcolm Glazer's Avant Corporation of Rochester, New York.

On September 6, 2018, WRBL opened a news bureau on Columbus State University's downtown campus.