WCHS-TV
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Charleston - Huntington - Parkersburg, West Virginia Marietta, Ohio United States |
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| City | Charleston, West Virginia |
| Branding | WCHS-TV 8 (general) Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | West Virginia's source for news |
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Digital: 41 (UHF) Virtual: 8 () |
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| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WCHS Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | August 15, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | CHarleSton |
| Sister station(s) | WVAH-TV |
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| Transmitter power | 475 kW |
| Height | 514.1 m |
| Facility ID | 71280 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°24′28.7″N 81°54′12.4″W / 38.407972°N 81.903444°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wchstv |
WCHS-TV, UHF digital channel 41 (virtual channel 8), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Charleston, West Virginia, United States. WCHS-TV is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and operates Fox affiliate WVAH-TV (channel 11) by way of a local marketing agreement (LMA). The two stations share studios in Charleston, and WCHS-TV's transmitter is located south of Scott Depot, West Virginia. The station also doubles as the default ABC affiliate for the West Virginia side of the Marietta/Parkersburg TV market since it doesn't have an ABC affiliate of its own.
WCHS-TV signed-on August 15, 1954 and was originally owned by the Tierney Company, alongside WCHS radio (580 AM). WCHS-TV was the second station in Charleston after WKNA-TV, which launched on UHF channel 49 as an ABC affiliate in 1953 but went dark in 1955 due to lack of viewership. Originally a CBS station sharing ABC with WSAZ-TV, channel 8 became a full CBS affiliate when WHTN-TV in Huntington signed-on in 1955. During the late-1950s, it was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
In 1958, WCHS swapped affiliations with WHTN and became an ABC affiliate. The WCHS stations were sold to Rollins Telecasting in 1960. The station reversed the swap and went back to CBS in 1962. For reasons that remain unknown, WCHS did not carry the CBS Evening News for several years after returning to CBS. On June 1, 1986, the station swapped affiliations once again with channel 13, now known as WOWK-TV.
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