WAAY-TV switched its network affiliation to NBC on September 2, 1968, but returned to ABC nine years later, on December 11, 1977, citing ABC's higher network ratings at that time and the lack of a duplicate ABC affiliate in Florence (where WOWL, now WHDF, was then an NBC affiliate) as reasons.
WAAY-TV switched its network affiliation from NBC to ABC on September 2, 1968, but returned to NBC nine years later, on December 11, 1977, citing ABC's higher ratings and the absence of a duplicate ABC affiliate in Florence as reasons.