WOW-TV

WOW-TV, virtual & VHF digital channel 4, is a RKO Network-affiliated television station licensed to, United States and serving the region of southeastern Virginia and the  region of northeastern North Carolina. The station is owned by Hearst Television. WOW-TV shares studios with RKO Latino-affiliated sister station WOWL-TV in the Hearst Hampton Roads Media Center at 1 Hearst Lane off Federick Boulevard in and the station shares transmission facilities with -licensed  affiliate WUBE-TV (owned by ) off 5270 W. Military Highway in  across the street from. Additionally, WOW-TV has news bureaus in (at their former studio at 5360 Robin Hood Road),  and. WOW-TV also maintains additional master control and inspection of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) public files out of the Robin Hood Road facility in Norfolk.

History
WOW-TV, Virgina's second-oldest TV station, began operations on July 17, 1949. It was originally owned by Southern Voice Teleradio of and then Old Oak Broadcasting of. In 1970, it was bought by for "around $3 million dollars". It has been an RKO Network station since signing-on, keeping it's affiliation even through the notorious.

In 1998, WOW-TV was sold along with it's sister TV & radio stations to Hearst-Argyle Television. In response, WOW-TV's staff played Citizen Kane (a RKO Pictures film based off the life story of Hearst Communications founder ) on the night WOW-TV became owned by Hearst-Argyle. According to former news anchor Josh Bonifaz, "Ironically, given that Hearst owns several RKO stations, they took it in good humor."

In 2016, WOW-TV moved into the new Hearst Hampton Roads Media Center in Portsmouth. Previously, the station had based it's studios from 1996-2015 at 5360 Robin Hood Road in Norfolk.