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WRIC-TV
Petersburg/Richmond, Virginia
Slogan	Straight To The Point; Live, Local, Late Breaking
Channels	8 analog, 22 digital
Affiliations	ABC
Owner	Young Broadcasting
Founded	1955
Call letters meaning	RIChmond
Former callsigns	WXEX-TV (1955 - 1990)
Former affiliations	NBC (1955-1965)
Website	www.wric.com

WRIC-TV is the ABC affiliate for the Richmond, Virginia television market. It is owned by Young Broadcasting. The station is licensed to nearby Petersburg, while its studios are just off the Powhite Parkway extension (State Route 76) on Arboretum Place in western Chesterfield County (unincorporated Richmond). It broadcasts its analog signal on channel 8 from a transmitter that is located nearby.

The station began operation in 1955 as WXEX-TV, an NBC affiliate. It was originally licensed to Petersburg, and was owned by local owners known as Petersburg Television. The transmitter was located in the Bermuda Hundred area of eastern Chesterfield County, and the station reached not only Petersburg, but Richmond as well, albeit with a weaker signal than the two stations licensed to Richmond at the time. Within a year, the FCC collapsed Petersburg and Richmond into a single market. The studios were located on Crater Road in Petersburg. Later, satellite studios were established just off Midlothian Turnpike in Bon Air, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond.

The station switched to ABC in 1965 and has been with that network ever since. In 1968 the station was sold to Nationwide Communications. Call letters were changed in 1990 to WRIC, and the station moved its studios to the current location. However, it is still licensed to Petersburg; unlike the other stations in the market, it identifies as "Petersburg/Richmond." In 1993 the station was sold to Young Broadcasting.

• James Black - Reporter
• Gretchen Carlson - Reporter/Anchor (now at FOX News Channel)
• Lou Charlip - Sports Reporter
• Craig Civale - Reporter (now at WFAA-TV in Dallas)
• Bruce Cunningham - Sports Director (now at WBFF-TV Baltimore)
• Ryan Deal - Reporter
• Derrick Dennis - Reporter
• Megan O'Donnell - Weekend Sports
• Michael Flynn - Reporter
• Kevin Freeman - Anchor
• Doug Luzader - Reporter
• Mara MacDonald - Reporter
• Laura Main - Reporter/Anchor
• Angela Martinez - Health Reporter
• Joanna Massee - Weekend Anchor
• Jacqueline McLean - Reporter/Anchor
• Chesley McNeil - Weather/Mr. Outside (now at WGRZ-TV in Buffalo)
• Carole Meekins - Anchor (now at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee)
• Ramona Parks - Reporter
• Simon Perez - Reporter
• Steve Price - Investigative Reporter
• Richard Real - Political Reporter
• John Reid - Anchor
• Rucks Russell - Reporter
• Ken Strayhorn - Sports Anchor
• Cheryl Tan - Weekend Anchor (now anchor/reporter at WAVY-TV in Hampton Roads)
• Cathleen Trigg - Reporter
• Sal Urbano - Sports Anchor/Reporter
• Tiffany Woods - Reporter
• Ric Young - Anchor (now at WTVR-TV)

• WRIC Homepage
• History of WWBT Television in Richmond
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WRIC-TV

Broadcast television in the Richmond market  (Nielsen DMA #61)
WTVR 6 (CBS/The Tube) - WRIC 8 (ABC) - WWBT 12 (NBC) - WFLV 15 (Rel) - WXOB 17 (Rel) - WCVE 23 (PBS) - WFMA 28 (Rel) - WRLH 35 (Fox/MNTV)  W39CO 39 (TBN) - WKYV 45 (Rel) - WRID 48 (DS) - WCVW 57 (PBS) - WUPV 65 (The CW) Past station:  WVRN 63 (Ind)

ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Virginia
WHSV 3 (Harrisonburg) - TV3 Winchester 3 (WHSV-DT3) (Winchester/Harrisonburg) - WRIC 8 (Petersburg) - WSET 13 (Lynchburg) - WVEC 13 (Hampton) - WVAW-LP 16 (Charlottesville)
See also: CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Virginia