WAKC-TV (fictional)

WAKC-TV, virtual channel 23 (UHF digital channel 22), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to, United States. The station is owned by -based. WAKC-TV's studios are located on Triplett Boulevard, adjacent to, in the historic (which carries the address of 1 Berk Circle, named for former parent radio station 's founder S. Bernard Berk); it's transmitter facilities are located on  in.

Broadcast coverage
Due to Akron and Canton being in the market, WAKC-TV is technically a secondary  affiliate for the Cleveland market, thus giving viewers a second choice for ABC programming after  (channel 5). WAKC-TV also competes with -based (channel 33) in  and it's -based sister station  (channel 13) in. On cable, the station is the sole ABC affiliate on Spectrum's systems.

Recent developments
In 2008, Raycom Media announced the purchase of the historic ; the -style former airport terminal was adaptively reused into a broadcasting and web media facility for WAKC-TV. On August 11, 2010, WAKC-TV's news operation moved into the building, dubbed 1 Berk Circle in honor of S. Bernard Berk. The first broadcast aired at 5 p.m. that night.

On June 25, 2018, Atlanta-based Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, and Gray's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella, in a cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion. The sale was approved on December 20, and was completed on January 2, 2019. Upon completion of the deal and as a result of Akron-Canton being part of the Cleveland market, WAKC-TV became Gray's largest television station by market size (as it was for Raycom), a title formerly held by the company's Knoxville, Tennessee duopoly of CBS affiliate WVLT-TV and CW affiliate WBXX-TV as well as making competing ABC affiliate WTVG in nearby Toledo a sister station to WAKC-TV.

Notable current on-air staff

 * Jim Chramosta - anchor
 * Renée Ouattara - anchor
 * Stephen H. Ross - chief meteorologist