carolina united states city asheville north carolina branding the carolinas cw 62 general 7 on your side newscasts slogan tv now channels digital 45 uhf virtual 62 psip subchannels 62.1 the cw 62.2 cbs 62.3 gettv affiliations the cw owner media general sale to nexstar broadcasting group pending media general communications holdings llc first air date october 31 1984 ; 31 years ago 1984 10 31 call letters meaning we re your cw sister station s wspa tv former callsigns wasv tv 1984 2006 former channel number s analog 62 uhf 1984 2009 former affiliations independent 1984 1997 the wb 1997 1999 upn 1997 2006 secondary until 1999 transmitter power 1 000 kw height 555 m facility id 70149 transmitter coordinates 35 13 20.5 n 82 32 56.8 w 35.222361 n 82.549111 w 35.222361 ; 82.549111 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website carolinascw.com wycw virtual channel 62 uhf digital channel 45 is a cw affiliated television station located in asheville north carolina united states . the station is owned by media general as part of a duopoly with cbs affiliate wspa tv channel 7 . the two stations share studio facilities on international drive next to the i 26 and i 85 bus veterans parkway interchange in spartanburg and its transmitter is located on pinnacle mountain road south of green river township s jeter mountain terrace section in southern henderson county north carolina . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 4 newscasts 5 references 6 external links history edit the station first signed on the air on october 31 1984 as wasv tv . originally locally owned even though it was licensed as a full power outlet the station initially operated at low power simulcasting christian oriented programming from greenville based wggs tv channel 16 . wasv began to run infomercials and shop at home programming in the early 1990s . wasv was sold to pappas telecasting which previously owned fox affiliate whns channel 21 in 1995 and began to transmit its analog signal at full power in 1996 . at that time pappas entered into a local marketing agreement with cbs affiliate wspa tv channel 7 which took control of wasv s programming and airtime . in october 1997 wasv became the market s wb affiliate taking the affiliation from wspa which carried the network on a secondary basis beginning at the network s launch in january 1995 . at the same time the station also became a secondary affiliate of upn . the station branded on air as the new 62 from 1997 to 2002 which was then changed to super 62 in 2002 lasting until early 2004 . from 1998 to 2000 wasv aired sporting events from cbs and nbc that those networks local affiliates wspa and wyff channel 4 pre empted in favor of local programming breaking news or severe weather coverage or annual telethons . logo used as wasv from september 2002 to september 2006 . the wb affiliation moved to rival wbsc channel 40 now wmya tv on september 6 1999 and wasv became a full time upn station which branded as upn 62 during network programming . wasv continued its lma with wspa even after the latter station was sold to media general in 2000 . channel 62 was purchased by media general outright in 2001 creating the market s first television duopoly . from 1997 to 1998 wasv signed off nightly from around midnight until 7 00 a.m. later in 1998 it began broadcasting 24 hours a day with the addition of a block of programming from the shop at home network during the overnight hours . in late 2005 early 2006 the station dropped shop at home programming and replaced it with a mix of off network sitcoms and court shows in the overnight during the week and off network dramas and sitcoms as well as movies on weekends . on january 24 2006 the warner bros. unit of time warner and cbs corporation announced that the two companies would shut down the wb and upn and combine the networks respective programming to create a new fifth network called the cw . 1 2 on march 2 2006 sinclair broadcast group announced that wbsc would become an affiliate of another new network mynetworktv which launched on september 5 . nearly four weeks later on march 28 it was confirmed wasv would join the cw . corresponding with the upcoming network change the station officially changed its call letters to wycw on april 22 2006 . however it continued to use the wasv call sign on air until upn officially ceased operations on september 15 2006 . when the cw launched on september 18 the station rebranded itself as carolinas cw . in recent years wycw has been carried on cable in portions of the columbia south carolina market as well in the south carolina side of the augusta georgia market including aiken and north augusta . 3 on september 8 2015 media general announced that it would acquire the meredith corporation for 2.4 billion with the combined group to be renamed meredith media general once the sale is finalized . because meredith already owns whns and the two stations rank among the four highest rated stations in the greenville spartanburg asheville market in total day viewership the companies will be required to sell either whns or wspa to comply with fcc ownership rules . wycw is the only one of the three stations that would not be affected and could either remain under its existing duopoly with wspa or form a new duopoly with whns as its total day viewership ranks below the top four ratings threshold and is therefore eligible to be run by the merged company in any event since that station s total day viewership ranks below the top four ratings threshold . 4 5 however on january 27 2016 nexstar broadcasting group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire media general resulting in the termination of meredith s acquisition by media general . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital signal is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 6 62.1 1080i 16 9 wycw hd main wycw programming the cw 62.2 480i wspa sd sd simulcast of wspa tv 62.3 4 3 get tv gettv on march 1 2009 wycw began carrying sister station wspa tv on a second digital subchannel due to the collapse of channel 7 s broadcast tower on hogback mountain southwest of tryon north carolina . on february 2 2016 wycw began carrying gettv on 62.3 7 analog to digital conversion edit wycw discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over uhf channel 62 on february 17 2009 the original target date for full power television stations in the united states to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate which congress had moved the previous month to june 12 . the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 45 . 8 through the use of psip digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 62 which was among the high band uhf channels 52 69 that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition . as part of the safer act 9 wycw kept its analog signal on the air until march 3 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the national association of broadcasters . programming edit syndicated programs broadcast by wycw include judge judy csi miami the office the people s court and everybody loves raymond . in january 2014 wycw acquired the local syndication rights to the andy griffith show which had previously aired on nbc affiliate wyff for many years . wycw also carries the second half hour of cbs s political discussion program face the nation on sunday mornings at 11 00 a.m. as wspa only clears the first half hour of the program which airs in the half hour prior to the airing of the second half of the program on channel 62 . newscasts edit wspa tv presently produces 13 hours of locally produced newscasts each week for wycw with 2 hours on weekdays and a half hour each on saturdays and sundays . since the early 2000s wspa has produced a nightly primetime newscast for wycw currently known as 7 on your side at 10 on carolinas cw . the show airs for a half hour competing with hour long newscasts seen on fox affiliate whns and mynetworktv affiliate wmya the latter of which is produced by wlos and airs only on weeknights . in the late 2000s wspa also began producing a two hour extension of wspa s weekday morning newscast for wycw . known as 7 on your side daybreak on carolinas cw the program airs from 7 00 to 9 00 a.m. and competes against the in house morning newscast on whns . on september 16 2007 wspa became the first television station in the greenville spartanburg asheville market to begin broadcasting its newscasts to high definition ; the wycw newscasts were included in the upgrade which introduced a graphics package similar to that used at the time by media general flagship wfla tv in tampa florida . in 2008 news anchor amy wood launched cw live chat feature during the weeknight edition of the 10 00 p.m. newscast . at the time it was one of the first interactive live broadcasts in the united states with an anchor hosting the chat live while simultaneously anchoring on air . in addition to the main studios in spartanburg wspa wycw operates a news bureau on south main street sc 28 in anderson . media general maintains a capitol bureau in columbia on assembly street sc 48 covering state government issues for the company s south carolina stations . references edit gilmore girls meet smackdown ; cw network to combine wb upn in cbs warner venture beginning in september cnnmoney.com january 24 2006 . upn and wb to combine forming new tv network the new york times january 24 2006 . http svtvstations.webs.com svtvstations.htm media general acquiring meredith for 2.4 billion . tvnewscheck . newscheck media . september 8 2015 . cynthia littleton september 8 2015 . tv station mega merger media general sets 2.4 billion acquisition of meredith corp. . variety . penske media corporation . retrieved september 9 2015 . rabbitears tv query for wycw http www.tvnewscheck.com article 91977 gettv in multimarket deal with media general dtv tentative channel designations for the first and second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . updated list of participants in the analog nightlight program pdf . federal communications commission . june 12 2009 . retrieved june 4 2012 . external links edit wycw carolinas cw official website wspa tv 7 on your side official website query the fcc s tv station database for wycw v t e television stations in the western carolinas including greenville spartanburg anderson sc and asheville nc reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television digital television wyff 4.1 nbc 4.2 this wspa 7.1 cbs 7.2 metv 7.3 ion wlos 13.1 abc 13.2 mntv 13.3 grit wggs 16.1 rel . 16.2 fam 16.3 sonlife 16.4 now 16.5 qvc whns 21.1 fox wgta 32.1 h & i 32.2 decades 32.3 movies wmya 40.1 mntv 40.2 gettv 40.3 bounce wycw 62.1 cw 62.2 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