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72-540: WCCB (channel 18) is a television station in Charlotte, North Carolina , United States, affiliated with The CW . It serves as the flagship station of locally based Bahakel Communications . WCCB's studios are located just outside Uptown Charlotte , off Independence Boulevard (across from Bojangles' Coliseum ), and its transmitter is located in Newell, an unincorporated area of Mecklenburg County just northeast of

144-551: A barter in some cases. WTVI (Florida) WTVI (channel 19) was a television station in Fort Pierce, Florida , United States. It was the first television station to operate in the Treasure Coast region. The station made two unsuccessful attempts operating, once from November 1960 to January 1961 and again from September 1961 to January 1962. Financial problems related to its UHF operation and competition from

216-608: A cost standpoint" and said an educational TV station was too expensive for the low school population it would serve in St. Lucie County. While officials from four counties attempted to figure out a way forward, the taxpayer revolt and cost disagreements with Dyer scuttled the plan. On May 1, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education purchased all of the equipment used in operating WTVI in Fort Pierce, minus

288-647: A full-time ABC affiliate. Charlotte had only two network-affiliated stations, CBS affiliate WBTV and NBC affiliate WSOC-TV. On paper, Charlotte had been large enough to support three full network affiliates since the 1950s. However, WCCB's signal, like its predecessor, was nowhere near adequate for a market that stretched from the Sandhills in the east to the High Country in the west. Its signal only operated at 200,000 watts, essentially limiting its coverage area to Charlotte proper and its inner suburbs. Additionally,

360-659: A local cable system doomed the venture. WTVI equipment, buildings and personnel later were used in the start-up of two other stations, one of them in Fort Pierce. On April 19, 1955, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Gene T. Dyer a construction permit for a new television station to operate on channel 19 at Fort Pierce. Dyer was no stranger to broadcasting; he owned WAIT in Chicago and founded WFTL in Fort Lauderdale and

432-536: A month due to contractual issues. The weather radar feed remained available through WCCB's mobile DTV service, but this has since been discontinued. The Spencer Mountain and Rock Hill NOAA feeds were initially retained on MeTV through SAP. The Spencer Mountain feed was removed in mid-2012, and the Rock Hill feed was removed in December 2013. WCCB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 18, on June 12, 2009,

504-426: A more powerful signal than its predecessor. However, these plans were derailed when Charlotte's second VHF station, WSOC-TV (channel 9), signed on the air that April as an NBC affiliate. Even with the stronger signal, WUTV would have still been all but unviewable in most of the market. In addition, most of the market (particularly the western portion) got a fairly decent signal from WLOS-TV out of Asheville ; which

576-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

648-441: A new tower located on Newell Hickory Grove Road in northeast Charlotte. The new channel 18 facility was capable of 1.35 million watts of power, giving WCCB a coverage area comparable to those of WBTV and WSOC-TV. In 1967, WSOC-TV dropped all ABC programming and became a full-time NBC affiliate, leaving WCCB-TV to be the exclusive ABC affiliate. It took Charlotte 18 years to finally gain full service from all three major networks of

720-542: A radio station in Jefferson City in the same state, in mid-1961. The sale price was less than the $ 300,000 in costs Dyer incurred building WTVI and mostly consisted of a debt to General Electric. Channel 19 returned to the air September 10, 1961, but further financial problems dogged WTVI. It missed an interest payment to Dyer in October, and in December, Atlantic told Dyer that it wanted to cancel its purchase of

792-423: A skeleton staff after becoming an independent station and did not carry a regularly scheduled newscast again until 1994, when it began airing a nightly 10 p.m. news program produced by WSOC-TV. In 1999, WCCB announced plans to launch its own news department. That summer, WSOC-TV relocated its prime time newscast to its sister independent station WAXN-TV (channel 64). WCNC then temporarily took over production of

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864-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

936-466: Is multiplexed : Previously, a standard-definition simulcast of the station's main channel was carried on its second digital subchannel ; this simulcast feed was later upgraded to high-definition with the addition of SAP and DVS audio channels. In June 2012, the SAP/DVS feed was added to the main channel as well. The second subchannel was removed in December 2013, as well as the SAP/DVS feed from

1008-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

1080-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

1152-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

1224-530: The All-Channel Receiver Act in 1964. As a result, it made almost no headway against CBS affiliate WBTV (channel 3), which continued to cherry-pick certain NBC programs. The station went dark on March 15, 1955, in what was intended to be a temporary hiatus while it underwent technical improvements, including the construction of a more powerful transmitter at a new location. However, Deadwyler

1296-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

1368-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

1440-420: The 1948 TV freeze , amended its application to specify channel 9 in 1952, then sought channel 36 instead to avoid a comparative hearing . Hugh Deadwyler became co-owner of the station later that year and acquired the station outright after buying Inter-City's interest in 1955; it sold for $ 4 and the assumption of liabilities. With the sale, WAYS-TV became WQMC. Channel 36 had a very weak 132,000-watt signal which

1512-593: The Charlotte city limits. WCCB traces its roots to WAYS-TV, which signed on the air on January 5, 1954, as Charlotte's second television station. It was a primary ABC affiliate with a secondary NBC affiliation. Broadcasting on UHF channel 36, it was North Carolina's second UHF station (after WNAO-TV in Raleigh ). It was owned by George Dowdy and his company, Inter-City Advertising, owners of WAYS radio (610 AM, now WFNZ ); Inter-City had filed for channel 11 prior to

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1584-436: The Charlotte market beginning July 1, 1978, replacing WCCB. That decision set off a two-station showdown between WCCB and nine-year-old independent WRET-TV (channel 36, now WCNC-TV ) for the NBC affiliation in Charlotte. WCCB was initially seen as the favorite. Unlike WRET, it had a news department. Sources at NBC were said to see channel 36 as their last option, behind WCCB, with its stronger signal, and long-dominant WBTV, which

1656-470: The Charlotte market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. The upgrade included the debut of a brand new HD-ready news set. On February 4, 2013, Ken White, who had served as WCCB's news director since the 2000 inception of its current news department, was reassigned to sister station WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tennessee , as its interim news director; assistant news director Angela Robbins

1728-564: The Charlotte station got its construction permit, it selected the WTVI call letters for itself. In 1965, Indian River Television, owned by Michael Beacom, applied to build a new television station on channel 19 in Fort Pierce. Beacom had been a 10 percent owner of WTVI, but he was not active in its management because he was tending to problems that had arisen at another station he owned, WJPB-TV in Fairmont, West Virginia . However, that summer,

1800-755: The Eastern Time Zone where the Fox station was only an affiliate. Another likely factor in the purchase was an option by Fox to purchase the Raleigh– Durham CW/MyNetworkTV duopoly of WLFL and WRDC from Sinclair Broadcast Group , which would have resulted in WRAZ (a sister station to WJZY and WMYT at the time) losing its Fox affiliation. On April 18, one day after Fox completed its purchase of WJZY and WMYT, WCCB announced that it would replace WJZY as Charlotte's CW affiliate on July 1. On May 9, it

1872-483: The FCC had only begun requiring television sets to have all-channel tuning a few months before, and most Charlotte households did not yet have UHF-capable sets. Under the circumstances, ABC decided to retain its secondary affiliation agreements with WBTV and WSOC. WCCB was forced to settle for a secondary affiliation with all three networks, airing most of the network shows that WBTV and WSOC chose to turn down. As of March 1965,

1944-518: The FCC overhauled the UHF table of allocations nationwide in Docket 14229 and substituted channel 34 for 19 at Fort Pierce. After acquiring the former WTVI building from Dyer for $ 50,000, Indian River's station—taking the call letters WTVX —signed on with a test pattern on March 24, 1966. WTVX operated from the old WTVI studios until relocating to larger, more modern quarters in 1980; a church later occupied

2016-505: The NBC affiliation, with the network preferring it to WCCB based on Turner's record of turning around the station and his ownership of the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks . With the decision, WCCB became an independent station . It bought a large chunk of syndicated programming from WRET, including cartoons and older sitcoms. For a time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, after-school cartoons ( Afternoon Express ) were hosted by

2088-559: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

2160-431: The building, to be moved to start an instructional television station in Charlotte, North Carolina ; the facility cost $ 86,200. In a statement, Dyer blamed the local press and the taxpayers' association for scuttling any possibility of channel 19 being reactivated as an educational station for the Fort Pierce area, though school officials contended he was still asking $ 120,000 instead of offering to donate it outright. When

2232-402: The business. WTVI went off the air on January 6, 1962. Later that month, Atlantic filed a formal complaint with the FCC, stating that competition from the cable system had placed a financial strain on WTVI. The special temporary authority that Atlantic sought when the station went dark turned permanent when Atlantic conveyed the facility back to Dyer and surrendered the license. Jesse D. Fine,

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2304-408: The channel and UHF conversion rates in Fort Pierce were below 10 percent. Educational interests in the St. Petersburg area resisted the proposal, noting that a group was being formed to apply for it, and the bid to move channel 3 was denied in 1957. Construction activity for channel 19 started in earnest in early 1960, and conflict emerged on two fronts. The larger of the two was that a cable system

2376-426: The costumed Sonic Man space alien character, played by Larry Sprinkle, who has been a staple in Charlotte radio and television, including serving as a weather anchor for channel 36 since the 1980s. WCCB carried on for almost a decade as a typical UHF general entertainment independent station. In 1986, WCCB became the last station in a top-50 market to join Fox as one of the upstart network's charter affiliates, since it

2448-523: The dormant channel 36 license and facilities from Century for $ 175,000. An addition would be made to the studio building as part of Bahakel's efforts to return the station to the air. Bahakel returned the station to air on November 1 of that year as WCCB-TV (for "Charlotte Cy Bahakel"). The call letters had recently been used by what is now WNCF in Montgomery, Alabama , which was acquired by Bahakel earlier that year. Logically, it should have returned as

2520-528: The equipment of a failed station in Fort Pierce, Florida . While channel 36 might have remained on air until the school board was ready to launch WTVI , Century Advertising decided to ask the educational groups to pay rent in early 1963 after having initially verbally agreed to a three-year rent-free contract. They opted to pay to finish out the 1962–1963 school year but no further, causing WUTV to go silent on May 16, 1963. In June 1964, businessman Cy Bahakel —who moved from Roanoke, Virginia , to Charlotte—bought

2592-451: The former WTVI facilities, finding them in excellent condition. Arrangements had been worked out with Dyer and with GE, whose mortgage on station equipment continued in force, for potential purchase of the facility, as backers waited on Congress to pass an appropriations bill for educational television. However, the St. Lucie County Taxpayers Association mounted a revolt; its president called the reported $ 25,000 monthly cost "not feasible from

2664-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

2736-465: The late-evening newscast on WCCB until the launch of the station's in-house news department on January 1, 2000, with the debut of a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast. Ironically, the WCNC-produced newscast on WCCB drew a larger audience at the time than the newscasts that actually aired on WCNC. On September 28, 2008, beginning with the 10 p.m. newscast, WCCB became the second television station in

2808-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

2880-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

2952-584: The main channel which was unused at that time by The CW (it has since returned due to FCC description and weather warning read-out requirements, along with it being utilized by The CW for One Magnificent Morning and a Spanish dub of Jane the Virgin ); digital subchannel 18.2 would return in April 2014 carrying QVC 's "Over the Air" simulcast service. On July 21, 2014, it was announced that Antenna TV would be added to

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3024-527: The network was trying to woo from CBS to no avail. However, WRET owner Ted Turner promised NBC officials that he would spend $ 2.5 million on station improvements if the network affiliated with channel 36. Of that total, $ 1 million would go toward starting a news department within one year. The proposed news department would employ 22 people, almost double the size of WCCB's 12-person news operation and almost as large as WSOC's 22-person department. On April 29, news broke that WRET-TV had been selected for

3096-401: The nine-county area had 42,887 homes with UHF, with the number increasing by 3,000 per month. Bahakel said this "exceeds our expectation". For the next three years, WCCB split most of NBC and ABC's programming roughly equally with WSOC. It also picked up some CBS shows from WBTV, which still cleared a few ABC shows. On November 1, 1966, WCCB moved from channel 36 to channel 18, broadcasting from

3168-479: The official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27, using virtual channel 18. On February 4, 2010, WCCB signed on a translator located near Connelly Springs on UHF channel 20, W20DD-D. The translator was licensed to Marion as W08BJ. It

3240-654: The president of Atlantic, explained that if WTVI had operated for a year, it would have lost an estimated $ 80,000 to $ 100,000. When WTVI closed for the second time, local leaders sensed an opportunity to provide a facility that did not exist in the Indian River area: an instructional television station. The county school superintendent and an engineer from the Florida Educational Television Commission met with Dyer in March to survey

3312-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

3384-469: The purchase of CW affiliate WJZY (channel 46) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYT-TV (channel 55) from Capitol Broadcasting Company for $ 18 million. While WCCB had been one of the network's strongest affiliates, Fox had been looking to buy a station in what had become the 25th-largest market. It also wanted to own as many stations in NFC markets as possible; at the time Charlotte was the only NFC market in

3456-477: The second subchannel on August 15, 2014, bringing it back to the Charlotte market after being dropped by its previous affiliate WJZY. Antenna TV began airing that day, replacing QVC Over the Air, which went to a new fourth digital subchannel. On August 29, 2019, the Home Shopping Network was added on 18.7; this was followed by Dabl, which premiered on September 9 on 18.6. On January 8, 2020, Cozi TV

3528-419: The station are to its call letters, with any CW references used obliquely (in the manner of "WCCB, Charlotte's CW"). It marked the first time in a quarter-century that the station has used its call letters on a permanent basis in its branding. WCCB was Charlotte's home of first-run episodes of The Simpsons from its December 1989 debut as a Christmas special until the station's Fox disaffiliation in 2013. WCCB

3600-486: The station produces WCCB News Got Game , a half-hour sports highlight program that airs on Sunday evenings following the 10 p.m. newscast. WCCB's studio facilities served as a production facility for WOLO-TV 's newscasts from 2002 to 2005 in one of the first instances of centralcasting ; studio segments for WOLO's newscasts returned to Columbia afterward. WCCB aired newscasts at various times between 1964 until its ABC disaffiliation in 1978. It reduced its news department to

3672-521: The station would cease telecasting at the end of the day due to financial troubles. In a statement, Dyer noted that he had spent $ 500,000—more than the projected $ 250,000—and wanted investors to help shoulder the burden. Several viewers were frustrated to have bought UHF converters to receive WTVI, only for the station to fail. Dyer sold the dark television station for $ 175,795 to Atlantic Broadcasting Company, which owned KFEQ-TV in St. Joseph, Missouri , and

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3744-552: The time. The state's largest market thus got a full-fledged ABC affiliate after the state's two smallest markets, Greenville – New Bern – Washington and Wilmington , received ABC affiliates of their own ( WCTI-TV and WWAY respectively). However, despite the stronger signal and the first consistent airing of all network programs in Charlotte TV history, WCCB-TV remained a distant third in the ratings. In 1977, ABC announced that it had lured away WSOC-TV to be its new outlet in

3816-463: The tower, four miles (6.4 km) from the county airport, though some on the county's airport commission feared the approval could jeopardize the airport's eligibility for federal funds. Dyer protested the cable system's plan to import distant network affiliates, which it saw as competition. Cablevision alleged that Dyer was attempting to force Cablevision out and obtain a franchise for himself. WTVI began telecasting on November 21, 1960. The signal

3888-622: The unofficial "home" station of the Carolina Panthers upon the team's 1995 inception . WCCB carried most Panthers regular season games during the team's first 18 seasons, and later acquired the local rights to the team's preseason games from WBTV. Panthers games had generally been the most-watched programs in the market during the NFL football season. After having branded itself as "TV18" since sign-on, WCCB changed its branding to "Fox 18" in 1988 and then to "Fox Charlotte" in 2002. Cy Bahakel

3960-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

4032-443: Was added to 18.8. On October 27, 2020, Antenna TV (18.2) and Start TV (18.5) swapped subchannels. Until March 1, 2011, WCCB carried a feed of its weather radar on its third subchannel, which provided NOAA Weather Radio feeds from Spencer Mountain, North Carolina , and Columbia and Rock Hill, South Carolina , through SAP. On that date, MeTV replaced the weather radar feed after having the start date of its affiliation delayed for

4104-463: Was also available on the cable system; subscribers to Florida Cablevision would not need a UHF converter to see WTVI. The station was an exclusive CBS affiliate and aired network programming as well as local newscasts and a children's show known as Uncle Harry's Fun Club , hosted by Harry Heritage, who doubled as Santa Claus in Fort Pierce. However, channel 19's first incarnation would not last three months. On February 10, 1961, owner Dyer announced that

4176-788: Was also one of the few stations broadcasting Siskel & Ebert that was affiliated with Fox, with others including WLFL, Fox's Raleigh–Durham affiliate from 1986 to 1998 and Fox's New York City flagship station WNYW . WCCB remained home to Panthers preseason football games until losing them to WSOC-TV for the 2019 season. It also began airing Charlotte 49ers college football games in September 2013, with WCCB carrying any 49er home games not carried by Conference USA 's national and regional television partners. WCCB presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Saturdays and one hour on Sundays); in addition,

4248-554: Was an original partner in the NBA 's Charlotte Hornets , and WCCB served as the team's flagship station for the Hornets' first four seasons in Charlotte from 1988 to 1992 . Bahakel owned WCCB until his death on April 20, 2006, with his family taking over the duties of running the station (and its parent company, Bahakel Communications ) since that point. In 2007, WCCB's website switched to Fox Interactive Media 's "MyFox" platform (which

4320-540: Was appointed as White's replacement at WCCB. After WCCB became a CW affiliate on July 1, 2013, it retained its weekday morning and nightly prime time newscasts. On November 9, 2013, WCCB debuted half-hour 6 p.m. newscasts on Saturday and Sunday evenings, making it one of the few television stations to have carried an early evening newscast on weekends without an existing newscast in that daypart on weekdays. (WCCB handles master control responsibilities for WOLO's weeknight 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.) The station's signal

4392-527: Was constructed behind the Charlotte Coliseum at 1 Television Place—still home to WCCB today—including a new transmitter site. WUTV's effective radiated power was 206   kW visual. In the meantime, Century pursued the allocation of VHF channel 6 to Charlotte. WUTV, however, was not capable of live programming. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board began to pursue the construction of a full educational TV station on reserved channel 42, buying

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4464-615: Was described in a 1948 profile of the Chicago market by Broadcasting magazine as "one of Chicago's best-known radio figures", while he was a tomato packer and vegetable farmer in Florida, alongside major land holdings in St. Lucie County . The call letters WTVI were assigned in May. In 1956, WTVI proposed to have the then-vacant channel 3 allocation at St. Petersburg moved to Fort Pierce for its use, noting that there were no applicants for

4536-550: Was doing so well in the ratings as an independent. WCCB affiliated with the network when it launched on October 6 of that year. For most of the next quarter-century, WCCB was one of the strongest Fox stations in the country – even claiming to be the highest-rated Fox affiliate in the nation during the 2008–09 television season. The station reaped a major windfall after the NFL moved its National Football Conference television package from CBS to Fox in 1994. By coincidence, this made WCCB

4608-481: Was gearing up to serve Fort Pierce at the same time WTVI began building its facility. Florida Cablevision promised to fill the blanks for Treasure Coast viewers with missing CBS and ABC service (the only station that came in regularly was WPTV ), which WTVI sought to provide directly. Meanwhile, WTVI was approved to build its studio halfway between Fort Pierce and Vero Beach , complete with a 445-foot (136 m) tower. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared

4680-473: Was included in the Charlotte television listings for many years and even ran ads for its programs in Charlotte area newspapers. After four years of delays, Century Advertising relaunched WUTV on September 5, 1961. The station broadcast non-commercial educational programming from the University of North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools , though it retained a commercial license. A full new facility

4752-547: Was originally intended for Fox's owned-and-operated stations ), with the domain transitioning from foxcharlotte.tv to myfoxcharlotte.com; however, the station de-emphasized the "MyFox" corporate reference within a year, with the URL becoming known simply as foxcharlotte.com. The revamped page continued to use the "MyFox" webpage template (sans the "MyFox" branding) until 2010, when Broadcast Interactive Media became WCCB's site host. On January 28, 2013, Fox Television Stations announced

4824-761: Was purchased from WSPA-TV and moved to Smith Mountain. In recent years, WCCB has been carried on cable in several areas outside the Charlotte television market , including on cable systems within the Asheville and Greensboro – Winston-Salem –High Point markets, the Columbia, South Carolina market, and the Tri-Cities market in Tennessee and Virginia . Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,

4896-406: Was replaced with signage bearing the "Charlotte CW" logo. WCCB's relationship with Fox formally ended after 27 years on June 30, with American Dad! being the final Fox program to air on the station. With the loss of WCCB's Fox affiliation, WCCB formally rolled out its new on-air branding and logo the next afternoon, July 1, 2013, its first day as a CW affiliate. However, most verbal references to

4968-492: Was reported that Bahakel reserved the domain CharlottesCW.com for two years. Given the station's strong performance as a Fox affiliate and its half-century of service to the area (in its current incarnation), WCCB was expected to become one of the ten strongest CW affiliates in the nation when it formally joined that network. The old "Fox Charlotte" logo remained at the entrance to the station's studios until mid-May when it

5040-410: Was spotty further than 10 miles (16 km) from the transmitter, making it virtually unviewable even in some parts of Mecklenburg County. Even then, like most UHF stations, it was only viewable on most sets with an expensive UHF converter, and picture quality was marginal at best. Television set manufacturers were not required to include UHF tuners at the time; this would not change until Congress passed

5112-678: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

5184-440: Was unable to get the station back on track. In March 1956, Inter-City Advertising sued to place channel 36 into receivership. Inter-City claimed that Deadwyler had not paid any of the $ 86,220 debt to Radio Corporation of America that was transferred to him and for which RCA was seeking payment from Inter-City. Deadwyler organized Century Advertising Co., Inc., which planned to relaunch channel 36 in 1957 as ABC affiliate WUTV, with

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