WOAY-TV
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| WOAY-TV | |
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| Oak Hill / Beckley, West Virginia | |
| Branding | TV4, NewsWatch 4 |
| Channels | 4 analog, 50 digital |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Thomas Broadcasting Company |
| Founded | December 14, 1954 |
| Call letters meaning | WOAK, standing for OAK Hill was intended, but handwritten application was misread by FCC |
| Former affiliations | Dumont CBS UPN (secondary) |
| Website | woay.com |
WOAY is a television station in southern West Virginia. It is owned locally, by Thomas Broadcasting. It is affiliated with ABC. It is located in Oak Hill, West Virginia, although it identifies itself as "Oak Hill/Beckley".
The station operates on a very low budget, owing to the small and declining population in its market, and the accompanying low advertising rates it can charge.
In previous decades, the station was known throughout the area for a very theatrical professional wrestling show that it produced itself with local "talent", however, this ended after the fire, in which shortly after Thomas Broadcasting took over ownership in 1979, the station's main studio, control room, office and transmitter building burned to the ground. The station's studio, control room and transmitter were relocated and rebuilt in the adjacent wrestling arena, where they remain today.
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WOAY 4 (Oak Hill) - WCHS 8 (Charleston) |
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| See also: CBS, The CW, Fox, My Network TV, NBC, PBS and Other Stations in West Virginia | |
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