WOAY-TV

== 1954–1959 ==
Southern West Virginia's first television station, WOAY-TV, began operations on December 14, 1954, on channel 4. The station was founded by local businessman Robert R. Thomas Jr., and operated as a sister station to WOAY radio (860 AM and 94.1 FM, now WAXS). The station began as a primary ABC affiliate, but in its early years maintained a secondary relationship with the DuMont Television Network, which it lost when DuMont shut down in 1956. In 1959, it switched its primary affiliation to CBS, retaining a secondary affiliation with ABC.
Channel 4 became a full ABC affiliate on February 19, 1967, opting to affiliate with what then-station manager Robert Brown referred to as "the nation's fastest-growing network," and dropped most of its remaining CBS programs. WOAY-TV initially continued to air the CBS Evening News for some time afterward, mainly because the full CBS affiliate nearest to the area, WCHS-TV (channel 8) in Charleston, did not carry it (WOAY dropped it by 1968 when WCHS began clearing it).
== 1959–1967 ==
== 1967–1974 ==
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== 1974–Early 1980s ==
== Early 1980s–1992 ==
== 1992–2006 ==
=== 1992–2002 ===
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=== 2002–2006 ===
== 2006–2009 ==
== 2009–2020 ==
=== 2009–2017 ===
=== 2017–2020 ===
==2020–present==
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==External links==
*WOAY.com
Category:Television stations in the United States
Category:ABC network affiliates
Category:Former DuMont Television Network affiliates
Category:Former CBS network affiliates
Category:Oak Hill, West Virginia
Category:Beckley, West Virginia
Category:Bluefield, West Virginia
Category:West Virginia
Category:1953
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1954