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WOAY-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States, serving the Bluefield–Beckley–Oak Hill market as an affiliate of ABC.It has been locally owned by the Thomas family since its inception, and its studios and transmitter are co-located on Legends Highway in Scarbro, just outside the Oak Hill city limits (though with an Oak Hill mailing address).
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Beckley/Bluefield: Oak Hill: 4 31 WOAY-TV: ABC: Bluefield: 6 17 WVVA: NBC: CW on 6.2, MeTV on 6.3, Court TV on 6.4, Start TV on 6.5, Circle on 6.6
WOAY was founded in 1947 by local businessman Robert R. Thomas, Jr., and was the flagship of a family-owned communications group that would later include WOAY-FM (94.1, now WAXS) in 1948 and WOAY-TV (channel 4) in 1954.
WOAY can refer to: WOAY-TV , a television station (channel 31, virtual 4) licensed to serve Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States WOAY (AM) , a radio station (860 AM) licensed to serve Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States
He was a member of the West Virginia Senate representing the 11th district from 1994 until 2008. Love was a broadcast journalist, having spent the majority of his career with WOAY-TV in Oak Hill, West Virginia. Love was also a wrestling announcer and host for NWA Saturday Night Wrestling On WOAY-TV.
Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 17,286 at the 2020 census, making it the ninth-most populous city in the state. It is the principal city of the Beckley metropolitan area of Southern West Virginia, home to 115,079 residents in 2020.
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The station went on the air on July 31, 1955, as WHIS-TV. [4] It was named in honor of longtime West Virginia politician Hugh Ike Shott, who had died two years earlier.It was owned by the Shott family's Daily Telegraph Publishing Company, which owned the Bluefield Daily Telegraph along with WHIS radio (1440 AM and 98.7 FM, now WHAJ).