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 excep ...

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 assigne ...

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 is ...

, 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 transmits over full-power WGBX-TV'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 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 that ...

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.