This is a list of full-service

television stations in the United States The pages below contain lists of television stations in the U.S. by call sign. Historically, stations to the east of the Mississippi River were given call signs beginning with the letter ''W'', stations to the west ''K''. However, there are except ...

having

call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally ass ...

s which begin with the letter W. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex.,

WOCV-CD WOCV-CD (channel 35) is a low-powered, Class A television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network Decades. The station is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, and its transmitter i ...

, W16DQ-D and

WIFR-LD WIFR-LD (channel 23) is a low-power television station in Rockford, Illinois, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on North Meridian Road in ...

—have not been included. This also pertains to low-power licenses transmitting over the spectrum of a full-power license. (

WBTS-CD WBTS-CD (channel 15) is a Class A television station licensed to Nashua, New Hampshire, United States, broadcasting NBC programming to the Boston area. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside ...

transmits over full-power

WGBX-TV WGBX-TV (channel 44), branded on-air as GBH 44 since 2020, is the secondary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation, it is sister to Boston's primary PBS member station ...

's spectrum, but is excluded as it is classified as a low-power license). A blue background indicates a station transmitting in the

ATSC 3.0 ATSC 3.0 is a major version of the ATSC standards for television broadcasting created by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC). The standards are designed to offer support for newer technologies, including HEVC for video channels of u ...

format over-the-air; details about the station's alternate availability in the original

ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are an American set of standards for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable and satellite networks. It is largely a replacement for the analog NTSC standard and, like th ...

format are contained in its article. Television networks listed with each respective station are the primary affiliation listed; details about other network affiliations with these channels are contained in their respective articles. See also the list of TV stations beginning with K and the list of TV stations beginning with C.