WOAI-TV

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WOAI-TV
Image:WOAI-TV_logo.gif
San Antonio, Texas
Branding News 4 WOAI
Slogan Breaking News. Breaking Weather. Investigations.
Channels 4 (VHF) analog,
58 (UHF) digital
Affiliations NBC

NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
Owner Clear Channel Communications
(sale pending)
Founded 1949
Call letters meaning None. It was sequentially assigned by the federal government to the AM sister station.[1]
Former callsigns KMOL-TV (1975-2002)
Former affiliations CBS (secondary 1949-1950), UPN (secondary, 1998-2000)
Website www.woai.com

WOAI-TV is the NBC affiliate serving the San Antonio metropolitan area. Its transmitter is located in Elmendorf, Texas, with its studios located in downtown San Antonio.

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The station, San Antonio's first station, signed on December 11, 1949. It was owned by the same company that owned WOAI radio. It has been an NBC affiliate since its inception, although it carried a secondary affiliation with CBS during its first three months on the air. Eventually, WOAI-AM-FM-TV was bought by Avco Broadcasting. The TV station was sold off to United Television (at the time a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox) in 1975, changing its call letters to KMOL-TV. Chris-Craft Industries gained control and majority ownership of United in the early 1980s, merging the group with BHC Communications (the owners of KCOP in Los Angeles, California and KPTV in Portland, Oregon).

When KRRT (now KMYS) dropped UPN for The WB affiliation in 1998, KMOL would pick up UPN and air it late at night, due in part to being owned at the time by Chris-Craft, a one-time part-owner of UPN. Eventually the UPN affiliation would go to KBEJ (now KCWX), which went on the air in 2000.

In 2001, Chris-Craft sold its stations to Fox. Fox then traded KMOL-TV and KTVX in Salt Lake City to Clear Channel for WFTC in the Twin Cities. Clear Channel had purchased WOAI-AM when the stations were sold in 1974, and it changed the TV station's calls back to WOAI-TV in December 2002. This tradeoff also protected Fox station KABB as the San Antonio affiliation. Otherwise, WOAI-TV would have been forced to switch its affiliation to Fox.

On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced that it would be selling all of its television stations, including its flagship station WOAI-TV,[2] after being bought by private equity firms. The station was last sold in 2001.

As of the November 2006 ratings period, WOAI is solidly in third place, while rival stations KENS and KSAT fight it out for first.

WOAI deduted News 4 Weather Plus on one of WOAI's digital stations in 2005.

WOAI Radio and Television are among the few stations west of the Mississippi River whose call sign begins with "W." This designation was "grandfathered" when the federal government issued regulations requiring radio stations west of the Mississippi River to start with "K," and stations east of the Mississippi to begin with "W."

  • Randy Beamer (Weekday anchor, 5, 6 & 10pm)
  • Tanji Patton (Weekday anchor, 6 & 10pm, Troubleshooter reporter)
  • Delaine Mathieu (Weekday anchor, 5pm)
  • Jaie Avila (Weekday morning anchor, Troubleshooter reporter)
  • Leslie Bohl-Jones (Weekday morning anchor, San Antonio Living Host)
  • Jacqueline Ortiz (Weekend anchor, Kitchen Cops/Troubleshooter reporter)
  • Jeff Coyle (Weekend anchor, Troubleshooter reporter)

  • Shelly Miles (Traffic reporter, San Antonio Living reporter)
  • Matari Jones (morning reporter, Education reporter)
  • Aubrey Mika (reporter)
  • Kristina Deleon (reporter)
  • Natalie Tejeda (reporter)
  • Natalia Zea (reporter)
  • Demond Fernandez (reporter)
  • Leila Walsh (reporter)
  • Brian Collister (Troubleshooter reporter)

  • Jennifer Broome (chief meteorologist, Jen's Kids reporter)
  • Maclovio Perez (weekday morning meteorologist, San Antonio Living reporter)
  • Steve Linscomb (weekend meteorologist, reporter)

  • Don Harris (sports director)
  • David Chancellor (sports reporter)

  • Martha Buchanan (news)
  • Debora Daniels (news; also an alum of KSAT, having left it prior to being a WOAI anchor)
  • Jim Dawson (weather)
  • Jerry Desmond (sports) (died on August 17, 2003)
  • Alan Hemberger (news)
  • Gene Lively (news), noted for making a cameo appearance in The Sugarland Express
  • Fred Lozano (news)
  • Bob Guthrie, now a veteran news anchor on WOAI radio
  • Frank Matthews (news)
  • Alvin Smith (reporter)
  • Lori Tucker (news), now at WATE-TV 6 as a news anchor

In the KMOL days, the newscasts were branded "News Four San Antonio."

Weekdays

  • News 4 WOAI Today - 5AM-7AM
  • San Antonio Living - 10AM-11AM
  • News 4 WOAI at Five - 5PM-5:30PM
  • News 4 WOAI at Six - 6PM-6:30PM
  • News 4 WOAI at Ten - 10PM-10:35PM

Weekends

  • News 4 WOAI at Five - 5PM-5:30PM
  • News 4 WOAI at Ten - 10PM-10:30PM
  • Ticket 760 Sports Sunday - 10:30PM-11PM

  • 4 Big News (Most of the 1970s)
  • NewsCenter 4 (1970's to 1984)
  • News Four San Antonio (1984 to 1989)
  • KMOL News 4 (1989 to 1997)
  • News 4 San Antonio (1997 to 2002)
  • News 4 WOAI (2002 to Present)

The years are shown under the pictures.

Summer 1970

1973

1980

1983

1986

1987

1988

  1. ^ United States Callsign Policies, United States Early Radio History.
  2. ^ "Clear Channel agrees to sale", The Cincinnati Enquirer, Gannett Company, 2006-11-16. Retrieved on November 17, 2006.


Broadcast television in the San Antonio market  (Nielsen DMA #37)

KCWX 2 (The CW) - WOAI 4 (NBC) - KENS 5 (CBS) - KLRN 9 (PBS) - KSAT 12 (ABC) - K14LM 14 (3ABN) - KNIC 17 (TFU) - KHCE 23 (TBN) - KPXL 26 (ION) - KABB 29 (Fox) - KVDF-CA 31 (AZA) - KNIC-CA 34 (Silent) - KMYS 35 (MNTV) (The Tube on DT2) - KWEX 41 (UNI) - KQVE-LP 46 (DS) - K52EA 52 (Multimedios) - KVDA 60 (TEL)
See also, Broadcast television in Del Rio / Eagle Pass
NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KPRC 2 (Houston) - KFDX 3 (Lawton / Wichita Falls) - KSAN 3 (San Angelo) - KAMR 4 (Amarillo) - KBTV 4 (Port Arthur) - WOAI 4 (San Antonio) -
KXAS 5 (Fort Worth) - KCEN 6 / KMAY-LP 23 (Temple / Bryan) - KRIS 6 (Corpus Christi) - KTAL 6 (Texarkana) - KGNS 8 (Laredo) - KRBC 9 (Abilene) -
KTSM 9 (El Paso) - KWES 9 / KWAB 4 (Midland / Big Spring) - KCBD 11 (Lubbock) - KMOL-LP 17 (Victoria) - KVEO 23 (Brownsville) -
KXAN 36 / KXAM 14 (Austin / Llano) - KETK 56 / KLSB-LP 53 (Jacksonville / Lufkin)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas
 v • d • e Clear Channel Communications, Inc.

Corporate officers: Lowry Mays | Mark Mays | Randall Mays | Tom Hicks
Board of directors: Alan Feld | Perry Lewis | Lowry Mays | B.J. McCombs | Phyllis Riggins | Theodore Strauss | J.C. Watts | John H. Williams

Radio / Television stations:

Further information: List of broadcast stations owned by Clear Channel

Other major assets: Clear Channel Outdoor | Clear Channel UK | Premiere Radio Networks | FOX Sports Radio Network
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