WOAI-TV

WOAI-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 48), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate KABB (channel 29); Sinclair also operates CW affiliate KMYS (channel 35) under a shared services agreement with owner Deerfield Media. All three stations share studio facilities off Loop 410 in northwest San Antonio; WOAI maintains transmitter facilities located off of Route 181 in northwest Wilson County (northeast of Elmendorf).

History

The station first signed on the air on December 11, 1949 as WOAI-TV; it was the first television station to sign on in the San Antonio market. It was owned by Southland Industries along with WOAI radio (1200 AM and 102.3 FM, frequency now occupied by KSAQ). WOAI-TV and WOAI radio are among the few broadcast stations located west of the Mississippi River that utilize a call sign that begins with a "W"; this designation was "grandfathered" when the Federal Communications Commission issued regulations requiring radio stations west of the Mississippi River to be assigned call letters starting with a "K," and stations east of the Mississippi to calls beginning with a "W." The station has been an NBC affiliate since its sign-on, due to WOAI (AM)'s longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network; however, it originally also carried programming from the three other major networks of the time: CBS, ABC and DuMont. WOAI lost the CBS and DuMont affiliations to KEYL (channel 5, now KENS-TV) when that station signed on in February 1950; the two stations continued to share ABC programming until KONO-TV (channel 12, now KSAT-TV) signed on in January 1957.

WOAI (AM)

WOAI (1200 AM) is a San Antonio, Texas, news/talk formatted radio station operating with 50,000 Watts non-directional day and night from a transmitter site near Marion, Texas. It is owned and operated by San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications, known as iHeartMedia, Inc. since September 2014, which acquired the station in 1975. WOAI-AM is the flagship station for iHeartMedia. Its studios are located on Interstate 10 in Northwest San Antonio near Wonderland of the Americas Mall.

WOAI's local news operation features market veteran Jim Forsyth, Charity McCurdy, Cari Laque and Michael Board. Market legend Bob Guthrie, who was a WOAI news anchor for 52 years, retired in 2009.

WOAI's local programming includes San Antonio's First News with Charlie Parker and the Joe Pags Show.

WOAI is also the flagship station for the San Antonio Spurs radio network.

WOAI is known as the "50,000 Watt Blowtorch" of South Texas, because of its Class A, clear channel U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) classification. Like the handful of other clear-channel AM stations (not to be confused with WOAI's parent company Clear Channel Communications), WOAI can be heard all over North and Central America after sunset. In the daytime WOAI covers most of central and south Texas.

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