WLOS
 
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Asheville, North Carolina/Greenville/ Spartanburg, South Carolina United States |
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| City | Asheville, North Carolina |
| Branding | ABC 13 (general) News 13 (newscasts) My 40 (on DT2) |
| Slogan |
Western North Carolina's News Leader |
| Channels |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WLOS Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | September 18, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | Wonderful Land Of the Sky |
| Sister station(s) | WMYA-TV |
| Former callsigns | WLOS-TV (1954–1984) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 13 (VHF, 1954–2009) Digital: 56 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Transmitter power | 50 kW |
| Height | 849.4 m |
| Facility ID | 56537 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°25′32″N 82°45′25″W / 35.42556°N 82.75694°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | WLOS.com |
WLOS, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group; Sinclair also operates MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYA-TV (channel 40) under a local marketing agreement with owner Cunningham Broadcasting. The two stations share studio facilities located on Technology Drive (near I-26/US 74) in Asheville, WLOS maintains transmitter facilities located on Mount Pisgah in Haywood County, North Carolina. On cable, the station is available on Charter Communications channels 13 (in North Carolina) and 13 (in South Carolina), and in high definition on Charter digital channels 713 (in North Carolina) and 713 (in South Carolina).
The station first signed on the air on September 18, 1954; broadcasting at 316,000 watts, it was founded by the Skyway Broadcasting Company, owners of WLOS radio (1380 AM, now WKJV; and 99.9 FM, now WKSF). Having been with the ABC-TV network since its sign-on, WLOS is the second-longest tenured primary ABC affiliate located south of Washington, D.C. (behind Lynchburg, Virginia's WSET-TV, also on channel 13 and also owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group). During the late-1950s, WLOS was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. The station's original studios and transmitter facilities were based alongside its co-owned radio stations in West Asheville (the 300-foot (91 m) self-supporting tower with an analog batwing antenna atop it remains standing to this day). A few months after the station signed on, the television station relocated its studio operations to Battle House (a restored mansion on Macon Avenue, northeast of downtown Asheville, next to the historic Grove Park Inn).
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