WMBF-TV

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WMBF-TV
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Channels	32 (UHF) analog, No digital
Affiliations	- to be NBC
Owner	Raycom Media
Founded	2006
Call letters meaning	W Myrtle Beach Florence

WMBF-TV channel 32 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is a future TV station slated to be the area's new NBC affiliate. The station will be owned by Raycom Media, who is the current owner of the two NBC affiliates that are currently shown on cable in the market, WIS-TV of Columbia and WECT-TV of Wilmington, North Carolina.

The station will broadcast from a transmitter near Socastee at 5000kw; however, the pattern will be slightly directional in order to protect the digital signal of WRLK-TV in Columbia and 33 WJPM Florence. This will leave Florence just outside the fringe area.

When WMBF signs on, the Florence-Myrtle Beach area will have its own NBC affiliate for the first time ever.

[edit] Digital television

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [1], the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on or before February 18, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, WMBF will be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMBF

NBC Network Affiliates in the state of South Carolina
WCBD 2 (Charleston) - WYFF 4 (Greenville) - WIS 10 (Columbia) - WMBF 32 (Florence)1
1-- Not yet on the air.
See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, PBS, CW, MyNetworkTV and Other stations in South Carolina