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WFAA

WFAA
WFAA 2013 Logo.png
DallasFort Worth, Texas
United States
City Dallas, Texas
Branding WFAA-TV Channel 8,
Channel 8,
WFAA-TV (general)
News 8, News 8 HD (newscasts)
Slogan The Spirit of Texas
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Virtual: 8 ()
Affiliations
Owner Tegna Media
(WFAA-TV, Inc.)
First air date September 17, 1949; 67 years ago (1949-09-17)
Call letters' meaning "Working For All Alike"
Former callsigns KBTV (1949–1950)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 8 (VHF, 1949–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 9 (VHF, 1998–2009)
Former affiliations
Transmitter power 55 kW
Height 512 m
Facility ID 72054
Transmitter coordinates 32°35′6.00″N 96°58′41.00″W / 32.5850000°N 96.9780556°W / 32.5850000; -96.9780556Coordinates: 32°35′6.00″N 96°58′41.00″W / 32.5850000°N 96.9780556°W / 32.5850000; -96.9780556
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.wfaa.com

WFAA, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the DallasFort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Tegna Media subsidiary of Tegna, Inc. WFAA maintains offices and secondary studio facilities located at the WFAA Communications Center Studios on 606 Young Street in downtown Dallas (next to the offices of its former sister newspaper under the ownership of former parent company Belo, The Dallas Morning News), and operates a primary studio facility – which is used for the production of WFAA's newscasts and also houses certain other business operations handled by the station – located at the Victory Park development, near Olive and Houston Streets (next to the American Airlines Center) in central Dallas; the station maintains transmitter facilities located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.

WFAA is the largest ABC-affiliated station by market size that is not owned and operated by the network through its ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary, and the largest affiliate of any of the "Big Four" television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) that is not owned by that respective network. It is also one of only two television stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth market (along with CW affiliate KDAF (channel 33), which is owned by Tribune Broadcasting) that is not owned by the corporate parent of its affiliated network.


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