WDAZ
 
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Grand Forks, North Dakota United States |
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| City | Devils Lake, North Dakota |
| Branding | WDAZ 8 Television (general) WDAZ News (newscasts) WDAY/WDAZ (regional) |
| Slogan | Your Home Team |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8 () |
| Subchannels | 8.1 ABC 8.2 Justice Network 8.3 WDAY'Z Xtra 8.4 Ion Television |
| Translators |
36.1 K16KE-D Baudette, MN 36.1 K36LW-D Williams, MN 8.1 K48CQ-D Roseau, MN |
| Owner | Forum Communications |
| First air date | January 29, 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning | disambiguation from WDAY-TV as second station |
| Sister station(s) | WDAY-AM, WDAY-TV, KBMY-TV/KMCY-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 8 (VHF, 1967–2009) Digital: 59 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT1: NBC (1967–1983) DT2: CW+ (2009–2016) |
| Transmitter power | 19 kW |
| Height | 451 m |
| Facility ID | 22124 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 48°8′18″N 97°59′35″W / 48.13833°N 97.99306°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
(semi-satellite of WDAY-TV, Fargo, North Dakota) Profile (semi-satellite of WDAY-TV, Fargo, North Dakota) CDBS |
| Website | www |
WDAZ-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station serving Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. Licensed to Devils Lake, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a 1,460.2-foot (445.1 m) tall transmitter tower near Dahlen, located roughly between Grand Forks and Devils Lake.
On cable, the station can be seen on channel 8 in most areas. There is a high definition feed provided on Midcontinent Communications digital channel 608 and Polar Communications digital channel 601. WDAZ is widely carried on cable in the Canadian province of Manitoba, including the cities of Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie, Selkirk, Steinbach, Winkler, and Kenora, Ontario.
Owned by Forum Communications of Fargo, which also owns the Grand Forks Herald, WDAZ operates from facilities on South Washington Street in Grand Forks. Identifying as a separate station in its own right, WDAZ is a semi-satellite of sister station WDAY-TV in Fargo. It simulcasts nearly all of WDAY's programming, but airs separate identifications and commercials, as well as its own weekday newscasts. WDAZ serves the northern half of the Fargo/Grand Forks market, while WDAY-TV serves the southern half. Master control and other internal operations are performed from WDAY-TV's studios on South 8th Street in Fargo.
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