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WFAA, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. WFAA maintains offices and primary studio facilities located at the WFAA Communications Center Studios on 606 Young Street in downtown Dallas〔"(Closed Captioning )." WFAA. Retrieved on September 30, 2012. "Mailing Address WFAA-TV Channel 8 606 Young St Dallas, TX 75202"〕 (next to the offices of former sister newspaper ''The Dallas Morning News''); the station operates a secondary studio facility (which is used for WFAA's newscasts) located at the Victory Park development next to the American Airlines Center; the station maintains transmitter facilities located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill. It is one of only a few broadcast stations west of the Mississippi River to have the "W" initial prefix. WFAA is the largest ABC affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the network, as well as one of only two television stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth market (along with CW affiliate KDAF (channel 33)) that is not owned by its affiliated network and the largest affiliate of any of the "Big Four" networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) not to be owned by that respective network. The station formerly served as a default ABC affiliate for the Sherman-Ada market from April 1998 to May 2010, when NBC affiliate KTEN (which dropped its secondary affiliation with the network in the former month) launched an ABC-affiliated digital subchannel; despite this, WFAA remains available on cable providers in the southern half of the market (including Ardmore, Durant and Hugo, Oklahoma). ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 17, 1949 as KBTV; it originally operated as a primary affiliate of the DuMont Television Network and a secondary affiliate of the short-lived Paramount Television Network (which the station agreed to air 4.75 hours of that network's programming each week in 1949). The station was founded by the Lacy-Potter TV Broadcasting Company, which was partially controlled by Texas oil magnate Tom Potter. It was the third television station to sign on in Texas (behind Fort Worth's WBAP-TV (channel 5, now KXAS-TV); and Houston's KLEE-TV (now KPRC-TV)), the second station in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and the first to be licensed to Dallas. Local businessman Karl Hoblitzelle, owner of Interstate Circuit Theatres, originally filed an application to operate a station on channel 8 on October 23, 1944; he planned to operate the station out of the Republic Bank Building in downtown Dallas, before the FCC awarded Potter the channel 8 license. At its launch, KBTV had broadcast for only four hours a day. On March 21, 1950, in the midst of a four-year television license freeze imposed by the Federal Communications Commission that began in 1948, the A.H. Belo Corporation purchased KBTV from Lacy-Potter for $575,000; the sale received FCC approval on March 13, 1950. On March 21, three days after the company took control of the station, Belo changed its call letters to WFAA-TV to match its new radio partner WFAA (570 AM, now KLIF). The WFAA calls reportedly stood for "Working For All Alike," although the radio station later billed itself as the "World's Finest Air Attraction" (the KBTV call letters were later used from 1953 to 1983 by what is now present-day sister station KUSA in Denver, Colorado, and are currently used by a Fox-affiliated station in Beaumont). WFAA is one of the few television stations located west of the Mississippi River whose call letters begin with a "W"; the FCC normally assigns call letters that begin with the "K" prefix to stations west of the river, and "W" as a prefix east of the Mississippi; the radio station's callsign, where the WFAA calls for the television station came from, predated this FCC policy. The station was Belo's first television property and until it merged with the Gannett Company in 2013, served as the Dallas-based company's flagship station. WFAA originally operated from studios located at Harry Hines and Wolf Street, north of downtown. In 1950, WFAA switched its primary affiliation to NBC, and also affiliated with ABC on a secondary basis. DuMont shut down in 1955 after various issues that arose from its relations with Paramount; WFAA lost its NBC affiliation on September 1, 1957 when WBAP-TV boosted its signal to cover Dallas; Belo had attempted to get an exclusive NBC affiliation first, but it was awarded to WBAP-TV, leaving WFAA as an exclusive ABC affiliate. In 1958, WFAA became the first station in the market to use a videotape recorder for broadcasting purposes, eventually becoming one of the first television stations in the U.S. to convert its news footage to videotape in the 1970s. During the 1958–59 television season, WFAA served as the taping location for Jack Wyatt's ABC crime/police reality show, ''Confession'', in which assorted criminals explain why they rejected the mores of society and turned to crime. The station's operations moved downtown on April 2, 1961 to the state-of-the-art WFAA Communications Center Studios on Young Street (the former studio facilities were subsequently purchased for use by educational station KERA-TV (channel 13)). In 1974, Texas state senator Jim Wade unsuccessfully tried to convince the FCC to strip Belo of its license to operate WFAA-TV and have the channel 8 license awarded to him. In 1984, WFAA debuted one of the most successful station image campaigns in the United States with its "Spirit of Texas" promotions that focused on the region's cultural heritage, accompanied by a news music package that was composed by James R. Kirk of TM Productions. The "Spirit" theme was used for the station's newscasts until 1991. All of the news themes WFAA commissioned after that carried the TM Productions theme's seven-note musical signature (including the "WFAA 1992 News Theme" used from 1992 to 1996; "The Spirit" from 1996 to 2000, the "Custom WFAA-TV News Package" from 2000 to 2004, a variation of the Arnold's "News Matrix" from 2004 to 2005 and "Evolution" from 2004 to 2007 – all four of which were composed by McKinney-based Stephen Arnold Music; and the 615 Music-composed "Propulsion" since 2006). In addition to its use by WFAA, the "Spirit" image campaign and slogan was adapted by some of its Belo-owned sister stations (such as KHOU, KIII, WVEC, WWL-TV and KXTV) and by television stations owned by other companies, sometimes in conjunction with its accompanying theme (Houston sister station KHOU used the original TM-composed theme from 1986 to 1989 with its themes since then also using the "Spirit" signature including the custom John Hegner-composed "American Spirit", which was used from 1994 to 2000). The signature was dropped after three decades on August 27, 2014, when WFAA switched to Gari Media Group's standardized package for Gannett's stations, "This is Home" (the station's news graphics and imaging were also overhauled to match Gannett's mandated look at that time); however, the station's longtime "Spirit of Texas" slogan is still used sparingly in some station promotions. WFAA became the first television station in the United States to broadcast a digital signal on a VHF channel (on channel 9) on February 27, 1997 at 2:17 p.m.; the following day, it became the nation's first television station to broadcast a local news program in high definition. When the station's digital signal signed on, its channel 7 frequency was already in use by Dallas hospitals, causing interference with medical equipment.〔http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/news/n_the_last_empty_channel.shtml〕 Most of WFAA's news programming (with the exception of the 10:00 p.m. newscast) is broadcast from a secondary studio facility in the Victory Park district that opened in 2000.〔(WFAA-TV Fiftieth Anniversary )〕 In 2008, Belo decided to split its broadcasting and newspaper interests into separate companies. WFAA remained with the broadcasting side, which retained the Belo Corporation name, while the newspapers (including ''The Dallas Morning News'') were spun off to the similarly named ''A. H.'' Belo Corporation. Former corporate cousins WFAA and ''The News'' maintained a news partnership through the end of 2013, at which time the newspaper entered into a collaborative agreement with KXAS-TV. On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo for $2.2 billion. The deal was granted FCC approval on December 20, and was finalized on December 23. As a result, WFAA became Gannett's largest television station by market size (supplanting Washington, D.C. sister station WUSA-TV, which has been owned by the company since 1986); it also marked channel 8's first ownership change in 63 years. On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. WFAA was retained by the latter company, named Tegna. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WFAA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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