WCBD-TV
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| WCBD-TV | |
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| Charleston, South Carolina | |
| Branding | News 2 |
| Slogan | Count on News 2 |
| Channels | Analog: 2 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | NBC (1996-Present) The CW (DT2) |
| Owner | Media General, Inc. (Media General Communications Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | September 25, 1954 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Charleston/ Berkeley/ Dorchester (three counties in Charleston metro) |
| Former callsigns | WUSN-TV (1954-1975) |
| Former affiliations | NBC/ABC (1954-1962) ABC (1962-1996) |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 594 m (analog) 581 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 10587 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.counton2.com Low Country CW |
WCBD channel 2 is the NBC affiliate for Charleston, South Carolina. Owned by Media General, the station's transmitter is located in Awendaw. The station is located at the base of the new Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge in Mount Pleasant. WCBD airs programming from The CW on its DT2 subchannel, which is known as The Lowcountry's CW. The subchannel airs the newscast The Daily Buzz weekday mornings from 6 to 9 AM. [1]
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[edit] History
The station signed on as WUSN-TV on September 25, 1954. It is the third-oldest station in the Lowcountry, behind WCSC-TV in Charleston and WBTW in Florence. It was originally an NBC affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. WUSN shared ABC programming with WCSC until 1962, when WTMA-TV (now WCIV) signed on and took the NBC affiliation. WUSN then became a full-time ABC affiliate.
In 1975, the call letters changed to WCBD, after the three counties in the Charleston metropolitan area. It remained Charleston's ABC affiliate until August 1996, when it swapped affiliations with WCIV and became an NBC affiliate once again. This was a result of an affiliation deal between ABC and WCIV's owner, Allbritton Communications Company.
WCBD spent most of the 1970s and 1980s in last place until Media General bought the station in 1983. Since then, WCBD has been a strong number two station.
Beginning in September 2006, WCBD began to show programming from The CW on its DT2 digital subchannel.
[edit] Personalities
Many of the on-air personalities of WCBD have been fixtures in the Charleston-area market for many years.
Chief Meteorologist Rob Fowler has been with the station for more than 18 years becoming Chief Meteorologist in 1987, and the longest-serving meteorologist in the market with the same station.
Warren Peper, one of the most widely-known faces in Charleston television, joined WCBD in late 2005 after a one-year noncompete agreement expired between him and Jefferson Pilot Communications (which owned rival WCSC).
In October 2005, Peper was joined on the anchor desk by Carolyn Murray, who had been a reporter at WCSC for 11 years before going to WBBM-TV in Chicago in 2001; she returned to WCBD in 2003. They are now the weekday anchor team for WCBD anchoring the news at 5, 6, & 11.
Ironically, two of the three network affiliates in the Charleston market have news anchors who are former sports anchors. Peper, who worked at WCSC from 1974 until his controversial firing in 2004, was a sports anchor for much of his career, and WCIV's Dean Stephens also worked as a sports anchor for much of his early career at the station.
[edit] News Operation
[edit] Weekdays
- News 2 Today: 5:00 - 7:00 a.m.
- News 2 at Noon: 12:00 - 12:30 p.m
- News 2 at 5:00: 5:00 - 5:30 p.m.
- News 2 at 5:30: 5:30 - 6:00 p.m.
- News 2 at 6:00: 6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
- News 2 at 10:00 on CW: 10:00 - 10:30 p.m.
- News 2 at 11:00: 11:00 - 11:35 p.m.
[edit] Weekends
- News 2 at 6:00: Weekends, 6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
- News 2 at 7:00: Weekends, 7:00 - 7:30 p.m.
- News 2 at 11:00: Weekends, 11:00 - 11:35 p.m.
[edit] Anchors
- Warren Peper
- Carolyn Murray
- Dee Dee Sharp
- Brad Franko
- Octavia Mitchell
Reporters
- Robert Kittle
- Tara Lynn
- Meryl Conant
- Jenny Fisher
- Larry Collins
- Tim Gehret
Storm Team 2
- Rob Fowler (Chief Meteorologist)
- Josh Marthers (morning)
- Joey Sovine (weekends at 6, 7, and 11)
- Mark McKinney (fill-in)
Count On 2 Sports
- Brendan Clark (Sports Director)
- Mike Lacett
[edit] Former Anchors/Reporters/Weathercasters
- Leigh Spann (now at WFLA-TV)
- Chip Maxham (morning meteorologist at KAUZ in Wichita Falls)
- Gray Hall (morning reporter at WTVJ)
- John Ahrens (weekend meteorologist at WSOC)
- Nina Sossamon
- Blair Miller (anchor at WSOC)
- Erica Bryant Fields (morning and noon anchor at WSOC)
- Spencer Pryor (spokesman for North Charleston Police Department)
- Bill Fitzgerald
- Andrew Speno
- Trey Hardison
- Darla Rourk
- Dana Ratliff
- Meredith Land (now at KXAS)
- Ben Pogue
- Miles Crosby
- Liz Scott
- Ron Scott
- Jennifer Brown
- Jennifer Timmons
- Karen Grace
- Lorrie Jordan (now at KNSD)
- Kurt Hogan
- Christa McLain
- Angie Mizzell
- Jon Robinson
- Harve Jacobs (now at WCSC)
- Jenny McLendon
- Nancy O'Dell
- Merritt Dempsey
- Nichelle King
- Leslie Lyles
- Jill Franco-Miller
- Rudy Gill
- Terry Casey
- Dan Ashley (main news anchor at KGO-TV)
- Ted Knight (deceased)
- Joe Trahan (now sports reporter at WFAA)
- Bill Baer
- Bo Williams
- Bettina Boateng(now at WVTM)
- Ben Tackett
- Tom Allen
- Karen McGinnis
- Dallas Raines
- Joan Mack
- Steve Overton
- Adrian "Specs" Munzell (deceased)
- Amy Robach (MSNBC Anchor; Today & Weekend Today)
[edit] External links
- Home Page - WCBD-TV
- Low Country CW Homepage
- mcsittel.com: 1994 ID when the station was ABC
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WCBD-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WCBD-TV
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