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view with Abraham Zapruder, who shot the famous Zapruder film, which was processed at WFAA's photo lab, about an hour and a half after the President's death.

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Texas oil magnate Tom Potter filed a separate application for the Channel 8 license and was ultimately awarded the permit over Hoblitzelle. Hoblitzelle planned to operate the station out of the Republic Bank building in downtown Dallas, and even conducted a closed-circuit television broadcast of the opening of one of his properties, the Wilshire Theatre.

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The initial application for the television station was filed on October 23, 1944, when local businessman Karl Hoblitzelle, owner of movie theater chain Interstate Circuit Theatres, applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to obtain a construction permit and license to operate a television station on VHF channel 8 it was the first such license application for a television station in the Southern United States.

4.2 Past program preemptions and deferrals.4.1 Syndicated and non-news local programming.It is also one of only two television stations in the Dallas– Fort Worth market (along with CW affiliate KDAF (channel 33), which is owned by Nexstar Media Group) that is not owned by the corporate parent of its affiliated network. WFAA is the largest ABC affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the network through its ABC Owned Television Stationssubsidiary, and the largest affiliate of any of the ' Big Four' television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) that is not owned by that respective network.

WFAA's transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill. WFAA maintains business offices and secondary studio facilities at the WFAA Communications Center Studios on Young Street in downtown Dallas (next to the offices of its former sister newspaper under the ownership of former parent company Belo, The Dallas Morning News), and operates a primary studio facility, which is used for the production of WFAA's newscasts and also houses certain other business operations handled by the station, in the Victory Park neighborhood (near Olive and Houston Streets, next to the American Airlines Center) in central Dallas sister station KMPX maintains separate facilities on Gateway Drive in Irving. WFAA-TV Channel 8, Channel 8, WFAA-TV (general) In turn, WFAA and CW affiliate KDAF, (channel 33) are the only network-affiliate stations in the market not to be owned and operated by any major network. It is also the largest affiliate of any of the 'big three' networks ( ABC, NBC, CBS) not owned by that respective network. WFAA, channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the top ten media markets in North America.

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