Legacy WDAF TV/DT Channel 4 - Kansas City, Mo. - Radio and Television Transmitter Towers on Waymarking.com

WDAF-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 34), is a Fox-affiliated television station serving Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media. WDAF-TV maintains studio and transmitter facilities located on Summit Street in the Signal Hill section of Kansas City, Missouri. On cable, WDAF-TV is available on Charter Communications and SureWest channel 6, and AT&T U-verse channel 4.

WDAF-TV also serves as an alternate Fox affiliate for the Saint Joseph market (which borders the Kansas City Designated Market Area to the north), as the station's transmitter produces a city-grade signal that reaches Saint Joseph proper and rural areas in the market's central and southern counties. WDAF previously served as the default NBC station for Saint Joseph until it disaffiliated from the network in September 1994, and as the market's de facto Fox affiliate from that point on until KNPN-LD (channel 26) signed on as an in-market affiliate on June 2, 2012. After its sign-on, KNPN displaced WDAF as the market's Fox station on Suddenlink Communications and smaller cable providers, DirecTV and Dish Network (in contrast, ABC and NBC's respective affiliates in the two markets, KQTV (channel 2) and KNPG-LD (channel 21) in Saint Joseph, and KMBC-TV (channel 9) and KSHB-TV (channel 41) in Kansas City, are both carried on Saint Joseph-area television providers).

WDAF-DT2
On February 13, 2011, through an agreement between network owner Tribune Broadcasting and then-WDAF-owner Local TV that resulted from the companies' existing management agreement, the station launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 4.2, which served as a charter affiliate of the Antenna TV classic television network (which had its official nationwide launch just over one month earlier on January 1, with WDAF being one of only four Local TV-owned stations that did not begin carrying Antenna TV on the date of its launch).

WDAF-DT3
On June 22, 2015, WDAF launched a tertiary subchannel on virtual channel 4.3 to serve as an affiliate of This TV (which is also part-owned by Tribune, in conjunction with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The network had been absent from the Kansas City market for five months prior to WDAF's assumption of the affiliation, as KCWE ended its five-year relationship with This TV on January 2, in order to affiliate its second digital subchannel (29.2) with competing film-focused multicast network Movies! (which is part-owned by former This TV co-founder Weigel Broadcasting).

Analog-to-digital conversion
WDAF-TV's digital signal was upgraded to full-power high definition on September 23, 2005, increasing its HD signal strength from 1.2 kW to 1000 kW. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. WDAF continued to transmit its digital signal on its pre-transition UHF channel 34. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 4.