WAZT-CA

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WAZT-CA

Woodstock, Virginia
Branding	WAZT
Slogan	Good News for the Valley
Channels	Analog: 10 (VHF) Digital: 8 (VHF)
Translators	(see article)
Affiliations	TBN Cornerstone Television
Owner	JLA Media & Publications, LLC
Founded	1985
Call letters’ meaning	W AZ = derived from the translator calls for each station Fourth letter (see article)
Website	www.wazt.com

WAZT-CA is a religious television station in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, licensed to Woodstock, Virginia. It is officially considered to be in the Washington, DC television market. The station's primary analog broadcast signal operates on VHF channel 10 and their digital signal will operate on VHF channel 8.^[1] The station offers some TBN and Cornerstone programming, but it generally does not show them in-pattern with those networks, and it also broadcasts some secular syndicated programming such as Martha and classic television shows. WAZT once broadcast a local newscast at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (entitled News 10), but this was discontinued on December 26th, 2005. In January 2006, WAZT began airing CBN's "NewsWatch" program with local news and weather in "audio form" during an extended commercial breaking under the name "Valley News Briefs".

The station has operated since October 1985, when it was put on the air by Ruarch Associates, LLC (its original calls were W10AZ, with the WAZT calls, introduced in 1994, likely being derived from it), and once had a radio sister station, WAZR 93.7 (that station is now owned by Clear Channel Communications with a contemporary format).^[2] Ruarch sold WAZT to JLA Media & Publications in 2006.

[edit] Relays

As WAZT operates at a low-power, it must use relays to expand its signal throughout the rest of Shenandoah Valley. The station refers to this network of signals as the AZTV Network. Interestingly, these relays also had "AZ" in their translator calls, though the AZ in their current callsigns likely comes from WAZT. The relays changed their callsigns in the early 2000s.

Most of these stations are also in the Washington market, although the Harrisonburg and Staunton-Waynesboro relays are in the Harrisonburg market.

Station	Analog Channel	Digital Channel	City	4th Letter Meaning
WAZC-LP	16	35 ^[3]	Luray	A disambiguation of WAZT
WAZH-CA	24	None	Harrisonburg	Harrisonburg
WAZM-CA	25	None	Staunton-Waynesboro	A disambiguation of WAZT
WAZF-CA	28	40 ^[4]	Front Royal	Front Royal
WAZW-CA	48	46 ^[5]	Winchester	Winchester

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v • d • e Broadcast television in the Washington, D.C./Hagerstown, MD market (Nielsen DMA #9)

Local television stations WRC 4 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - WTTG 5 (Fox) - WJLA 7 (ABC) - WUSA 9 (CBS) - WFDC 14 (UNI) - WDCA 20 (MNTV) - WMPT 22/WFPT 62 (PBS/MPT) - WDDN-LP 23 (DS) - WZDC-LP 25 (TEL) - WETA 26 (PBS) - WHUT 32 (PBS) - WMDO-CA 47 (TFR) - WWTD 49 (WUFO) - WDCW 50 (The CW) - WNVC 56 (Ind) - WIAV-LP 58 (AV/Ind) - WPXW 66 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) Local digital television channels WNVT 30 (Ind) Local cable television channels CN8 - Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic - News Channel 8 - AIM - PACDC Stations serving Hagerstown, Maryland and surrounding area WHAG 25 (NBC) - WWPB 31 (PBS/MPT) - WWPX 60 (ION) - WJAL 68 (Ind) Stations serving Winchester, Virginia and surrounding area TV3 Winchester 3 (WHSV-DT3) (ABC) - WAZT-CA 10/WAZC-LP 16/WAZF-CA 28/WAZW-CA 48 (TBN) - W15AD 15/W17AL 17/W41AO 41/W48AA 48/W69AC 69 (PBS/WVPB) - WDWA-LP 23 (DS) - WVPY 42 (PBS)

See also broadcast television in the Baltimore market

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Harrisonburg market area (Nielsen DMA #178)

WHSV 3 (ABC) (Fox / TSC on DT2) (TV3 Winchester on DT3) (MNTV / TSC on DT4) - WAZH-CA 24 / WAZM-CA 25 (TBN) - W28BF 28 (NBC) - WVPT 51 (PBS) Out-of-market stations serving the area Washington, D.C.: WRC 4 (NBC) - WTTG 5 (Fox) - WUSA 9 (CBS) - WDCA 20 (MNTV) Richmond: WTVR 6 (CBS) - WRIC 8 (ABC) - WWBT 12 (NBC) Charlottesville: WVIR-DT 29.3 (The CW)