History
WDAZ went on the air for the first time on January 29, 1967 as a semi-satellite of WDAY-TV. Unlike the other Fargo stations, WDAY-TV does not put a strong signal into Grand Forks and the northern part of the market. It must conform its signal to protect CBC Television station CBWT in Winnipeg, which is also on channel 6. As a result, WDAY-TV only provided grade B coverage to most of Grand Forks, and could not be seen at all in much of the northern part of the market. WDAZ was signed on to fill this coverage gap.
Originally an NBC affiliate, it switched to ABC along with sister station WDAY-TV in May 1983; KTHI-TV (now KVLY-TV) became the new NBC affiliate. As a result, KTHI was removed from the terrestrial cable television service in southwestern Manitoba (which already had an NBC affiliate in KMOT in Minot), and Saskatchewan (which carried NBC via KUMV in Williston). WDAZ continues to be carried on Canadian cable along with the PBS member Prairie Public Television network (via Grand Forks outlet KGFE) in southern Manitoba, while other North Dakota broadcasts were replaced with Detroit and/or Toledo, Ohio stations.
The station won the Edward R. Murrow Award for continuing coverage in 1997 for staying on-the-air providing coverage of the 1997 flood while Grand Forks was evacuated. In 2007, WDAZ began broadcasting in high-definition.
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