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WCCB-TV

WCCB
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Charlotte, North Carolina
United States
Branding WCCB, Charlotte's CW (general)
WCCB News (newscasts)
Channels Digital: 27 (UHF)
Virtual: 18 ()
Subchannels See Below
Translators W20DD-D Marion
Affiliations The CW
Owner Bahakel Communications
(North Carolina Broadcasting Partners)
First air date Original incarnation:
December 31, 1953 (1953-12-31)
Current incarnation:
November 1, 1964; 52 years ago (1964-11-01)
Call letters' meaning Charlotte
Cy Bahakel
(station owner and founder)
Former callsigns
  • WAYS-TV (1953–1954)
  • WQMC-TV (1954–1955)
  • WUTV (licensed, 1957)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 36 (UHF, 1953–1955, 1964–1966)
  • 18 (UHF, 1966–2009)
Former affiliations
  • Primary:
  • NBC (1953–1955)
  • Independent (1964–1967, 1978–1986)
  • ABC (1967–1978)
  • Fox (1986–2013)
  • Secondary:
  • NBC (1964–1967)
  • ABC (1953–1955, 1964–1967)
  • CBS (1964–1967)
  • (local Weather On DT3)
Transmitter power 1,000 kW
Height 368 m
Facility ID 49157
Transmitter coordinates 35°16′1″N 80°44′5″W / 35.26694°N 80.73472°W / 35.26694; -80.73472Coordinates: 35°16′1″N 80°44′5″W / 35.26694°N 80.73472°W / 35.26694; -80.73472
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.wccbcharlotte.com

WCCB, virtual channel 18 (UHF digital channel 27), is a CW–affiliated television station located in Charlotte, North Carolina. United States. It serves as the flagship station of owner Bahakel Communications. WCCB maintains studio facilities 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 the Charlotte city limits.

WCCB is carried on channel 11 on most cable systems in the market (and in high definition on Charter Spectrum channel 1212), on TruVista channel 5, and on AT&T U-Verse channels 18 and 1018.

WCCB traces its roots to WAYS-TV, a primary NBC and secondary ABC affiliate, which signed on the air on December 31, 1953. Broadcasting on UHF channel 36, it was North Carolina's second UHF station (after WNAO-TV in Raleigh), as well as the second television station in the Charlotte market. It was owned by George Dowdy and his company, Intercity Advertising, owners of WAYS radio (610 AM, now WFNZ). Hugh Deadwyler became co-owner of the station in 1954, and acquired the station outright after buying Deadwyler's interest in 1955. In January 1955, its call letters were changed to WQMC-TV.


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