WAWV-TV (channel 38) is a television station in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States, affiliated with ABC.

The two stations share studios on US 41/150 in unincorporated Sullivan County (south of Farmersburg), where WAWV-TV's transmitter is also located.

Channel 38's situation grew even more dire when Indianapolis' longtime NBC affiliate, WRTV, switched to ABC in June 1979.

WRTV's former analog signal, due to its position on VHF channel 6, covered most of the Indiana side of the market, including most of Terre Haute itself.

On April 16, 2008, a transmission line failure at WFXW's analog transmitter facility that occurred approximately ten minutes into Fox's telecast of American Idol's results show left the station off the air for 3+1⁄2 weeks; the station's analog signal remained dark until May 9.

However, its digital signal was fed to area cable system headends and to Dish Network to restore service.

The American Idol performance and result shows during the week of April 21 aired on sister station WTWO.

Nexstar also announced that channel 38 would change its call letters to WAWV-TV (standing for "ABC for the Wabash Valley") at that time.

The move came after sister stations WTVW in Evansville, WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne and KSFX-TV (now KOZL-TV) in Springfield, Missouri were stripped of their Fox affiliations following a dispute involving Nexstar and the network over a planned payment increase of its affiliates' retransmission consent fees to Fox.

[7] The last Fox program to air on WFXW was an episode of Buried Treasure on August 31, 2011, which ended at 10 p.m. Eastern Time (9 p.m. Central on the Illinois side of the market).

The rebranded station also adopted the brand "WAWV ABC," removing all references to its channel 38 allocation, along with a new logo.

Due to low advertising and budget cuts, the news operation was shut down in 1974; however, the station continued to provide weather updates during the evening hours.

WTHI terminated the news share agreement after WBAK-TV entered into the JSA with WTWO upon its acquisition by Mission Broadcasting, with the last WTHI-produced newscast airing on the station on December 31, 2003.

The 10 p.m. newscast was retitled Fox 38 News at 10 for a brief period beginning in June 2005, before being renamed again to WFXW Prime Edition.

At that point, the broadcast began utilizing its own news anchor, as well as a separate set, graphics and music package (the graphics were based on a package that was also used at the time by sister station WTVW, which was originally commissioned for Las Vegas Fox affiliate KVVU-TV).

[12] However, the 7 a.m. rebroadcast of WTWO's weekday morning newscast was dropped, as ABC airs Good Morning America in that timeslot (though WTWO does provide local news and weather updates during that program, along with half-hourly news and weather updates seen throughout the day, and a special agricultural-related forecast during AgDay on weekday mornings[13]); the existing 10 p.m. newscast was removed from the station as well, as unlike Fox, ABC provides prime time network programming during that hour,[14] though it was transitioned into the online-only WAWV News First at Ten, a 15-minute program that was streamed on the website shared by WTWO/WAWV until it was discontinued on December 28, 2012; the station otherwise does not carry a newscast in the traditional 11 p.m.