WRDW-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Augusta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV.

The three stations share studios at The Village at Riverwatch development in Augusta;[2] WRDW-TV's transmitter is located in Beech Island, South Carolina.

[5][6] On September 1, 1967, WJBF switched its primary affiliation to ABC, and began splitting NBC with WRDW-TV.

B. Fuqua, wanted to get that station in line with two ABC affiliates he had just purchased, WTVW in Evansville, Indiana, and KTHI-TV (now KVLY-TV) in Fargo, North Dakota.

WATU's return forced channel 12 to drop NBC programming for good, per a 1971 FCC order that required VHF stations in markets with three or more commercial outlets to affiliate with only one network.

[8] (Channel 12 and 1480 AM continued to share the WRDW call letters until the early 1980s, when the radio station was sold by entertainer and Augusta native James Brown;[9] it later became WCHZ).

[10] Channel 12 was sold along with then-sister stations WEYI-TV in Saginaw, Michigan, WROC-TV in Rochester, New York, WRCB-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and WTOV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio, to Television Station Partners, a group composed of Ziff Davis's broadcast executives, in 1983.

On July 12, 2018, WRDW broke ground on a new building to replace its facility in North Augusta, South Carolina, where it had been based since its inception.

WRDW-TV had the longest-running news anchor team in the market with Richard Rogers and Laurie Ott seen weeknights at 6 and 11.

Starting in September 2017, WRDW launched a nationally focused 5:30 p.m. newscast; while Inside Edition moved to WAGT weeknights at 6.