| Rock Hill, South Carolina / Charlotte, North Carolina |
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| Branding | my TV12 (cable channel) |
| Channels | Digital: 39 (UHF) Virtual: 55 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV SBN (DT3) |
| Owner | Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. (WMYT-TV, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 21, 1994 |
| Call letters' meaning | MYNetworkTV |
| Sister station(s) | WJZY |
| Former callsigns | WFVT (1994-2001) WWWB (2001-2006) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 55 (1994-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1994-1995) The WB (1995-2006) WGTB-LP (2007-2011) (DT3) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW (digital) |
| Height | 595.3 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 20624 |
| Website | www.wmyt12.com |
WMYT-TV is the MyNetworkTV-affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. It broadcasts on digital channel 39 and virtual channel 55. Its branding refers to its position on channel 12 on Charlotte 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 licensed to the South Carolina side of the Charlotte market. However, it shares a studio with WJZY in northwest Charlotte, and maintains transmitter facilities in Dallas, North Carolina.
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The station began on October 21, 1994 as WFVT, an independent station owned by "Family 55," an Indiana-based group. It was operated by WJZY through a local marketing agreement. It became a charter WB affiliate in 1995, and shortly after that rebranded itself as "WB55". After the FCC relaxed ownership restrictions in 2000, WJZY's owners bought the station outright and changed the calls to WWWB in 2001. Over the years, channel 55 was one of The WB's strongest affiliates. From 2000-2002 the station had a 10 pm newscast produced by WCNC-TV.
Shortly after My Network TV was announced, WWWB was announced as the network's Charlotte affiliate. Its sister station, WJZY, had already joined The CW, a merger of UPN and The WB, effective September that year.[1] This gave Charlotte the nation's first duopoly of The CW and My Network affiliates.
On April 28, 2006, WWWB changed its call letters to WMYT-TV, in anticipation of its new affiliation. [2] WMYT has been the over-the-air home for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats starting with the 2006-07 season.
For a time in 2006 and 2007, WMYT erected several advertising signs around the Charlotte area describing several Charlotte landmarks as "my ___." In May 2007, it leased one of its digital subchannels to WGTB-LP, a low-powered religious station. On December 5, 2011, WGTB-LP was replaced with SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN).
Channel 55 had previously been home to a Rock Hill-based low-powered repeater of South Carolina Educational Television from 1974 to 1978, when SCETV programming moved to a full-powered satellite, WNSC-TV on channel 30.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed. WMYT-TV ended analog operations on June 12, 2009, as part of the DTV transition in the United States. The station continues broadcasting on UHF channel 39, as channel 55 is to be re-allocated nationwide for Qualcomm's MediaFLO system. However, digital television receivers display its virtual channels as 55. In August 2011, it downgraded its HD signal from 1080i to 720p, as MyNetworkTV uses that particular format.
| Channel | Name | Video | Aspect | Programming |
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| 55.1 | WMYT-HD | 720p | 16:9 | Main WMYT-TV programming / MyNetworkTV |
| 55.2 | WMYT-SD | 480i | 4:3 | Currently dark |
| 55.3 | SBN | SonLife Broadcasting Network |
In South Carolina, WMYT is available on Pine Tree Cablevision in Bethune, which is part of the Columbia media market. The MyNetworkTV affiliate for that market, WKTC, is not available.
In North Carolina, WMYT is available on Alleghany Cablevision in Sparta, which is part of the Greensboro market. The MyNetworkTV affiliate for that market, WMYV, is not available.
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