WCHS-TV

==1954–1958==
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 3), channel 8 became a full CBS affiliate when WHTN-TV (channel 13, now WOWK-TV) in Huntington signed-on in 1955. During the late-1950s, it was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
==1958–1962==
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.
==1962–1966==
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==1966–1973==
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==1973–1977==
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==1977–1982==
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==1982–1994==
This famous logo set in Gill Sans survived an affiliation switch on June 1, 1986 when WCHS switched back to ABC and CBS was sent to WOWK-TV. In 1987, Rollins Telecasting merged with Heritage Broadcasting to form Heritage Media.
WCHS.jpg|"We've Got the Touch, You and TV8"
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File:WCHS-TV 1992.png|”If it's Charleston and Huntington, It Must Be WCHS-TV8"
==1994–1999==
===1994–1995===
===1995–1999===
Heritage sold all of its remaining broadcasting properties (four television stations, LMAs for two other television stations, and 24 radio stations) to Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1997 just as Heritage itself was being swallowed up by News Corporation (that sale being for Heritage's supermarket marketing operations, rather than for its television stations).
Wchs-news8-sixopen.jpg|News 8 6:00 p.m. open (1995–1999)
Wchs-news8-nightdeskopen.jpg|News 8 Nightdesk 11:00 p.m. open (1995–1999)
==1999–2007==
WCHS 8 Eyewitness News (1999).svg|WCHS 8 Eyewitness News logo (1999-2002)
WCHS 8 Eyewitness News 1999 open.jpg|WCHS 8 Eyewitness News 11pm open (1999-2002)
WCHS Eyewitness News (2002).svg|WCHS Eyewitness News logo (2002-2006)
WCHS 8 Eyewitness News (2006).svg|WCHS 8 Eyewitness News logo (2006-2007)
==2007–present==
On February 1, 2021, Sinclair moved its Fox network affiliation from WVAH 11.1 to WCHS 8.2, although it still markets the signal as "Fox 11" and more formally as "Fox 11, WCHS 8.2", likely due to similar moves of Fox affiliations (which were on stations owned by Cunningham Broadcasting like WVAH, which has nearly all services outside of license holding provided to it to Sinclair) at the beginning of 2021 to subchannels of sister stations owned by Sinclair in the Cedar Rapids, Columbus, and Dayton markets.
WCHS 8 logo m.svg|Monochrome logo
WCHS 2010.png|Variant featuring glossy version of ABC logo (2009-2013)
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Wchs 2009.png|Variant featuring shiny version of ABC logo (2013–present)
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Wchs-header-logo.png|Eyewitness News logo (2007–present)
WCHS WVAH EWN.png|Eyewitness News logo (WCHS/WVAH variant; 2007–present)
WVAHFOX11.svg|WVAH-DT2 (2021-present)
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WCHS 2021.svg|Alternate logo with 2021 ABC logo
WCHS 8 Eyewitness News 5pm 2020.jpg|Eyewitness News 5pm open (2020-present)
==External links==
*WCHS-TV.com
*WVAH.com (DT2)
Category:Television stations in the United States
Category:ABC network affiliates
Category:Sinclair Broadcast Group
Category:Charleston, West Virginia
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Category:Television channels and stations established in 1954