WMYA-TV
Anderson / Greenville / Spartanburg, South Carolina / Asheville, North Carolina
Branding	MY 40
Slogan	Carolina's MY40
Channels	40 (UHF) analog, 14 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	The WB (To become My Network TV Fall 2006)
Owner	Cunningham Broadcasting (local marketing agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group)
Founded	September 5, 1953
Call letters meaning	W MY Network TV Anderson
Former callsigns	WAIM-TV (1953-79) WAXA (1979-1988, 1992-95) WFBC-TV (1995-1999) WBSC-TV (1999-2006)
Former affiliations	CBS (1953-56) ABC (1953-79, secondary until 1956; simulcast with WLOS 1992-95) Independent (1979-87, 1995-99) Fox (1987-88) WB (1999-2006)
Transmitter Power	178 kW/853 m (analog)
Website	www.my40.tv

WMYA-TV is the MyNetworkTV television affiliate station for the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville television market. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, but is operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group through a local marketing agreement with the market's ABC affiliate, WLOS. However, it is effectively owned by Sinclair due to the financial structure of Cunningham (see below). Its transmitter is located near Forkshoals, South Carolina. Image File history File links WMYA_logo. ... Anderson is a city located in Anderson County, South Carolina. ... Greenvilles skyline from the south Greenville is the county seat of and largest city in Greenville CountyGR6 South Carolina, United States. ... Spartanburg is a city in Spartanburg County in South Carolina, a state of the United States of America, and 98 miles (158 km) northwest of Columbia. ... Asheville City Hall. ... 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The station is licensed to Anderson, South Carolina; but is operated out of WLOS' studios in Asheville. It broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 40 and its digital signal on UHF channel 14. However, the station provides only a grade B signal to most of the North Carolina portion of the market. In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... Anderson is a city located in Anderson County, South Carolina. ... Ultra high frequency (UHF) designates a range (band) of electromagnetic waves whose frequency is between 300 MHz and 3. ...

History

WMYA signed on September 5, 1953 as WAIM-TV, the fourth television station in South Carolina and the first west of Columbia. It was owned by Wilton E. Hall, publisher of the Anderson Independent and Daily Mail, along with WAIM-AM 1230. The calls stood for Anderson Independent-Mail. Originally a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation, it became an exclusive ABC affiliate after WSPA-TV signed on from Spartanburg in 1956. It was sold to Harte-Hanks Communications in 1972. September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... It has been suggested that CBS evening news anchors be merged into this article or section. ... WSPA-TV is a CBS television affiliate based in Spartanburg, South Carolina. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Until 1979, WAIM was the ABC affiliate for the South Carolina portion of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville market, as Greenville and points south had difficulty receiving WLOS, which signed on in 1954. However, in 1979, WLOS increased its signal strength to cover the South Carolina portion of the market as well. Under pressure from WLOS' owner, ABC dropped its affiliation with WAIM, which became an independent station--the first in South Carolina. However, WAIM-TV was undergoing hard times in the late 1970s, and it was unlikely that it would have survived as an ABC affiliate even if WLOS hadn't forced the issue. Very often, the station wouldn't sign on on weekdays until 11 a.m., when ABC's afternoon shows begin, and would sign off at 11 p.m., when ABC's prime time ends; much of its non-network programming during this time was also mainly religious shows and travelogues. This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An independent station is a television station that is not affiliated with any network. ...

Later in 1979, Harte-Hanks sold the station to Frank Outlaw, who changed the station's calls to WAXA and filled its schedule with cartoons, barter sitcoms, low budget talk and syndicated shows, wildlife and sportsman shows, low budget and public domain movies, and other shows the competition passed on that cost no money. The station was the only source of non-network programming in town until WHNS-TV signed on in 1984. It also aired programs from NBC and CBS that WYFF and WSPA turned down. One of the NBC programs shown on the station was the game show Super Password, which was pre-empted from WYFF for its entire run. The station became a charter Fox affiliate at the network's launch in 1987. WHNS (known on-air as FOX Carolina) is the Fox affiliate licensed to Greenville, South Carolina. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... WYFF is the NBC television affiliate based in Greenville, South Carolina. ... Although Password can be played without any equipment, commercial versions of the game have also been successful. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States and Canada. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Frank Outlaw died suddenly in 1988. His widow did not have the enthusiasm her husband did for running WAXA. The station was off the air by the end of the year. River City Broadcasting, owner of WLOS, bought the dormant WAXA license and returned the station to the air in 1992 as a full-time simulcast of WLOS. This created a strong combined signal with about 50% overlap. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

River City merged with Sinclair in 1995. Sinclair sold WAXA to Glencairn, Ltd., a new group headed by former Sinclair executive Edwin Edwards. Glencairn dropped the simulcast with WLOS and changed channel 40's calls to WFBC-TV--calls that had last been held by what's now as WYFF from 1953 to 1983. Sinclair continued to operate the station under an LMA that Edwards signed immediately after taking over. However, Glencairn's stock was almost entirely controlled by the Smith family, founders and owners of Sinclair. In effect, Sinclair owned both stations. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

WFBC-TV became a WB affiliate on September 6, 1999 and changed its call letters to WBSC in 2000 to reflect its affiliation. September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

WBSC began 24/7 broadcasting sometime in 2004, having previously signed off late Sunday night/early Monday morning.

When Sinclair attempted to merge with Glencairn in 2001 (after Sinclair was fined $40,000 for illegally controlling Glencairn), the FCC refused to allow Sinclair to buy WBSC and five other Glencairn stations. The FCC had already allowed Media General, owner of WSPA, to buy LMA partner WASV-TV (now WYCW-TV) outright, and a Sinclair purchase of WBSC would have left the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville market with only seven unique station owners. FCC rules require a market to be left with eight unique station owners after a duopoly is formed. Glencairn changed its name to Cunningham Broadcasting, but is stock is still almost entirely owned by the Smith family. As a result, Sinclair still effectively has a duopoly in the market. This arrangement led Sinclair Media Watch, an Asheville-based grassroots organization, to file an informal objection to WBSC and WLOS' license renewals in 2004. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Media General NYSE: MEG is a media company based in the Southeastern United States. ... WYCW is the UPN/CW affiliate licensed to Asheville, North Carolina, serving the Greenville, SC/Spartanburg, SC/Asheville television market. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On March 2, 2006, it was announced that WBSC would become the My Network TV affiliate for the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville market once the WB shuts down in September 2006. On June 19, WBSC changed its call letters to WMYA-TV to reflect its upcoming affiliation. March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... My Network TV (sometimes written MyNetworkTV, and unofficially abbreviated MNT or MNTV) is an upcoming television network in the United States, owned by News Corporation, which is scheduled to launch on September 5, 2006. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ...

Starting the week of July 17, WMYA-TV announced that it will be known as "My 40" and has introduced its new logo in IDs before half-hours begin, but continues to use the current "WB 40" logo for promos of the shows currently airing.

Previous Logos

Former WB40 logo. Image File history File links Wb40greenville. ...

External links

• WMYA homepage
• Sinclair Media Watch challenge to WBSC's license
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMYA