WVAH-TV

WVAH-TV (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Charleston, West Virginia, United States, serving the Charleston–Huntington market as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Catchy Comedy.

The two stations share studios on Piedmont Road in Charleston; WVAH-TV's transmitter is located atop Coal Mountain, south of Scott Depot, West Virginia.

The station began airing an analog signal on UHF channel 23 on September 19, 1982, with an Elvis Presley movie marathon.

Act III Broadcasting bought the station in 1987, along with WRGT-TV in Dayton, Ohio, from Meridian Communications, in a two-station group deal.

There is virtually irrefutable evidence that Cunningham is a shell corporation that Sinclair operates to circumvent FCC ownership limits.

In summer 2006, Charter Communications streamlined its operations which included selling off portions of its cable system which were "geographically non-strategic".

[9] This led to a protracted media battle and smear campaign between the two companies and Sinclair pulled the two stations from Suddenlink's lineup in the Beckley market.

After several weeks of negotiations, the two companies reached an agreement allowing WVAH and WCHS to continue transmission over the Suddenlink cable system.

[10] As a Fox affiliate, WVAH had aired newscasts produced by sister station WCHS under the Eyewitness News branding.

The station's signal is multiplexed: WVAH-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009).

[13][14][15] As part of the SAFER Act,[16] WVAH-TV kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.