WDAY-TV (channel 6) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with ABC.
The television and radio stations share studios on South 8th Street in downtown Fargo, while WDAY-TV's transmitter is located near Amenia.
WDAZ-TV (channel 8), serving Grand Forks and licensed to Devils Lake, operates as a semi-satellite of WDAY-TV.
KBMY (channel 17) in Bismarck,[3] and KMCY (channel 14) in Minot, clear all network programming as provided through WDAY-TV and simulcast WDAY-TV's newscasts, but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming; there are also separate commercial inserts and legal station identifications.
WDAY-TV went on the air for the first time on June 1, 1953, as the second television station in North Dakota (after KCJB-TV, now KXMC-TV, in Minot) and the first in Fargo and the eastern part of the state.
It was required to conform its signal to protect CBC Television's Winnipeg station, CBWT, which took to the air on channel 6 a year after WDAY-TV signed on.
WDAY-TV is one of the westernmost stations in the country whose call sign begins with W. Most stations west of the Mississippi River begin with K; however, WDAY radio signed on in 1922, a year before the U.S. government moved the K-W boundary from the state borders between 102 and 104 degrees West longitude (including the North Dakota–Montana border) to the Mississippi River.
[11][12] The decision to replace the 5 p.m. broadcast was met with an immediate backlash from viewers, including those who circulated a petition on Change.org demanding that Forum restore the local 5 p.m. news to WDAZ.
In August 2016, WDAY-TV launched a half-hour prime time newscast on its second and third subchannels called WDAY Xtra News at 9.
General manager Joshua Roher cited "changes to distribution of television, emerging technologies and economic factors in our area" as reasons for the consolidation, in a statement to the Grand Forks Herald.