Abry shut down the WDBB news department for the second time in December 1995. At that time, all of WDBB's operations were transferred to WTTO's Beacon Parkway facility in Birmingham; the Jug Factory Road studio facility was vacant until late 1997, when upstart WJRD-CA (channel 49, now WVUA-CD on channel 7) began operations at the facility, where it based its own local news operation that produced newscasts focusing on coverage of western Alabama. Some of the original WJRD staff consisted of former WDBB staff members who had been let laid off by the station when its operations were consolidated with WTTO two years earlier.