WSAZ-TV Huntington, WV

WSAZ serves viewers in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky with Severe Weather and Breaking News coverage. More people receive their news, weather and sports from WSAZ, WSAZ.com and the WSAZ App than all other local stations combined. Welcome to our Vimeo channel where we will post behind-the-scenes content, raw video, and other projects that all work towards our mission of making a difference.

The oldest television station in West Virginia, WSAZ-TV, began broadcasting November 15, 1949, on VHF channel 5. The station was originally owned by the Huntington Publishing Company along with the Huntington Herald-Dispatch and WSAZ radio (930 AM, now WRVC), and carried programming from all four networks at the time (NBC, CBS, ABC, and DuMont). However, it was a primary NBC affiliate due to WSAZ radio's long affiliation with NBC Radio. When WCHS-TV (channel 8) signed on from Charleston in 1954, it took over the CBS affiliation and the two television stations shared ABC programming until WHTN-TV (channel 13, now WOWK-TV) signed on from Huntington a year later. In 1955, WSAZ-TV dropped DuMont after the network shut down. It is the only commercial station in the market that has never changed its primary affiliation.