WFAA

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WFAA

Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas United States
City	Dallas, Texas
Channels	Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8
Branding	WFAA, Channel 8
Programming
Affiliations	8.1: ABC for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Tegna Inc. (WFAA-TV, Inc.)
Sister stations	KFAA-TV
History
First air date	September 17, 1949 (75 years ago) (1949-09-17)
Former call signs	KBTV (1949–1950) WFAA-TV (1950–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (VHF, 1949–2009) Digital: 9 (VHF, 1998–2009)
Former affiliations	DuMont (primary 1949–1950, secondary 1950–1955) Paramount (secondary, 1949) NBC (1950–1957) ABC (secondary, 1950–1957)
Call sign meaning	"Working For All Alike"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	72054
ERP	45.6 kW
HAAT	510 m (1,673 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	32°35′7.20″N 96°58′42.10″W / 32.5853333°N 96.9783611°W / 32.5853333; -96.9783611
Translator(s)	KFAA-TV 8.8 (30.3 UHF) Decatur
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wfaa.com

WFAA (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Decatur-licensed independent station KFAA-TV (channel 29), which provides a full-market high definition simulcast of WFAA's main channel on its UHF physical channel assigned to channel 8.8, due to long-term issues involving WFAA's digital VHF signal.

WFAA maintains studio facilities and business offices at the WFAA Communications Center Studios on 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); sister station KFAA-TV maintains separate facilities on Gateway Drive in Irving. WFAA's transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas.

WFAA is the largest ABC affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the network through its ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary. This also makes Dallas the largest media market with a "Big Four" station (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox) that is not owned by that respective network. It is also the only station among the Big Four in the Dallas–Fort Worth market that is not network-owned and operated.