WVAH-TV
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Charleston - Huntington, West Virginia United States |
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| City | Charleston, West Virginia |
| Branding | WVAH Fox 11 (general) Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | West Virginia's Source for News |
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Digital: 19 (UHF) Virtual: 11 () |
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| Owner |
Cunningham Broadcasting (WVAH Licensee, LLC) |
| Operator | Sinclair Broadcast Group |
| First air date | September 19, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning |
West Virginia Almost Heaven (former advertising slogan for state tourism) |
| Sister station(s) | WCHS-TV |
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| Transmitter power | 475 kW |
| Height | 514.1 m |
| Facility ID | 417 |
| 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 | wvah.com |
WVAH-TV, channel 11, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Charleston, West Virginia, USA. WVAH-TV is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, is operated through a local marketing agreement (LMA) by the Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned ABC affiliate WCHS-TV (channel 8). The two stations share studios and offices in Charleston, and WVAH-TV broadcasts from a transmitter south of Scott Depot, West Virginia.
The station was founded on September 19, 1982 and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 23. It was owned by the newly created Meridian Communications based out of Pittsburgh, which won the license after the West Virginia General Assembly forced West Virginia Public Broadcasting to withdraw its own application for the channel. It was the first Independent station in West Virginia, as well as the first new commercial station in the market since what is now WOWK-TV signed-on in 1955, and the first commercial UHF station in the state since WKNA-TV in Charleston went off-the-air in 1955. Studios were located on Mount Vernon Road in Teays Valley, an unincorporated area halfway between Huntington and Charleston, though its mailing address said Hurricane (the two areas share a zip code). It became a charter Fox affiliate on October 6, 1986. Act III Broadcasting bought the station in 1987.
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