WFAA-TV ("WFAA 8") is the ABC television affiliate serving the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas DMA (5th largest nationwide). The station is licensed to Dallas and its main business offices and studios are located next to the Dallas Morning News office in Downtown Dallas. Its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas. The station is the flagship of Belo Corporation, which also owns the Dallas Morning News daily newspaper. WFAA-TV is currently the largest ABC affiliate not owned and operated by the network (through Disney rather), and the largest affiliate by market size of a "Big Four" network (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox) not to be owned and operated by that network.

WFAA-TV also serves as one of four default ABC affiliates for the Sherman, Texas/Ada, Oklahoma market (along with KSWO-TV in Lawton, KTUL-TV in Tulsa and KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City) since that market currently lacks an ABC affiliate of its own, as the market's former ABC affiliate KTEN became an NBC affiliate in 1998. WFAA is carried as the "local" ABC affiliate to Dish Network subscribers within that market and the sole ABC affiliate carried by cable operators in several of the largest cities in the Sherman-Ada market including Sherman and Denison in Texas; as well as Ardmore, Durant and Hugo in Oklahoma.