WMYT-TV
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| Rock Hill, South Carolina / Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| Branding | "My TV12" (cable slot) |
| Channels | 55 (UHF) analog, 39 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | My Network TV |
| Owner | Capitol Broadcasting Company |
| Founded | October 21, 1994 |
| Call letters meaning | W MY Network TV |
| Former callsigns | WFVT (1994-2001) WWWB (2001-2006) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1994-95) The WB (1995-2006) |
| Website | www.wmyt12.com |
WMYT-TV Channel 55 (known on-air as My TV 12, a reference to its cable channel location) is the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. It is carried on channel 12 on most area cable systems. It is owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company along with WJZY. It is licensed to Rock Hill, South Carolina; making it the only commercial station in the market licensed to the South Carolina side of the Charlotte market. However, it shares a studio with WJZY in north Charlotte, and maintains transmitter facilities in Dallas, North Carolina.
The station began on October 21, 1994 as WFVT, an independent station operated by WJZY through a local marketing agreement. It became a charter WB affiliate in 1995, and shortly after that rebranded itself as "WB55". Capitol Broadcasting of Raleigh, WJZY's owner, bought WFVT outright in 2000 after the FCC relaxed ownership restrictions and changed the calls to WWWB in 2001--calls that had originally been held by a station in Tampa Bay.
From 2000-2002 the station had a short-lived newscast called "The Ten O'Clock News" produced by WCNC-TV.
Shortly after My Network TV was announced, WWWB was announced as the network's Charlotte affiliate. WJZY had already joined CW Network, a merger of UPN and The WB, effective September that year.[1] This gave Charlotte the nation's first CW-My Network TV duopoly. While most television experts expected WJZY to get the CW affiliation, it would not have been an upset if WWWB had won it instead. Charlotte was one of the few markets where the WB and UPN affiliates were both relatively strong.
On April 28, 2006, WWWB changed its call letters to WMYT-TV, in anticipation of its new affiliation. [2] WMYT will be the new over-the-air home for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats starting with the 2006-07 season.
Recently, WMYT has erected several advertising signs around the Charlotte area describing several Charlotte landmarks as "my ___."
[edit] Logos
 WFVT logo from 1994 to 1998. The logo originally didn't incorporate the "WB" logo. |
 WFVT logo from 1998 to 2001; briefly retained when the station became WWWB |
 WWWB logo from 2001 to 2004 |
 WWWB logo from 2004 to 2006 |
 WMYT logo from 2006 to present |
[edit] External links
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WILM-LP | | WJZY | | WMYT | | WRAL-TV | | WRAZ | | North Carolina News Network | | WCMC | | WRAL-FM |
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| Broadcast television in the Charlotte market (Nielsen DMA #26) | ||
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WBTV 3 (CBS) - WSOC 9 (ABC) - WHKY 14 (Ind) - W16CF 16 / W38CN 38 / W66ST 66 (TBN) - WUNE 17 / WUNG 58 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WCCB 18 (Fox) - WLNN-LP 24 / WTBL-LP 49 (A1) - WGTB-LP 28 (FN/LeSEA) - WNSC 30 (PBS/SCETV) - WCNC 36 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - WTVI 42 (PBS) - WJZY 46 (The CW) - WMYT 55 (MNTV) - WAXN 64 (Ind) |
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| Local cable television channels | ||
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CMS TV3 - News 14 Carolina - Ch. 16 (Local Government) - C-SET (defunct) |
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| See also Broadcast television in Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville, Columbia and Piedmont Triad | ||
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WRDC 28 (Durham) - WEPX 38/WPXU-TV 55 (Greenville/Jacksonville) - WMYA 40 (Anderson, SC / Asheville) - WMYW-LP 47 (Wilmington) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS and Other stations in North Carolina | |
