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Goodbye wciv! We loved you for 51 years!

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I can't believe that WCIV, after 51 years will go off the air. Sadly there will be lots and lots of layoffs and staff that will be unemployed due to this (except for news, weather, sports, some of the engineers, and most of the reporters.) Possibly, they will make a newscast on WMMP. At least MY 36, or soon will be ABC 4/36 referencing to their virtual and their cable channel. Yes, ABC will still be on Channel 4, and will not effect cable. They will be on 36 for terrestrial viewers. If at the last week their on the air and they can be saved and if they do get sold to a local company like, maybe Apex if they can do TV or Scripps, now that Journal is mergering with them, they can be saved along with their ABC affiliate. I want the same thing to happen to ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, only Scripps will possibly do that. Oh, and when are they going to go off the air for the final time? I heard a rumor that that guy from TV-Signoffs.com, so called the "Webmaster" will do a video on WCIV's farewell and it's last day on the air, when it comes, it may be it's recent video, because he is not from SC, but he lives in the Carolinas (mostly NC.) And if they do go off the air, can you post a logo, showing what WMMP's logo will look like after WCIV closes down? Thanks!

Reply what you think of WCIV going off the air and if you want this station back. Oh, one more thing, I was not responsible for this. The people at Sinclair and Allbritton said about this happening in Charleston and Birmingham. Why shut down WCIV, despite being Charleston's historical station and one of it's top 4 stations, if you can sell WTAT to another company? Nearby ABC and MyTV, WLOS and WMYA consecutively, are together, why not WCIV and WMMP? Please find an owner for WTAT, it's for WCIV ABC 4's sake!!
 
Not only that, their would be problems of people recieving the signal for their ABC station WCIV, which some people that live in Elloree, SC or Sumter, SC won't be able to recieve WCIV and now have rely on either WOLO 25 from Columbia, SC or WPDE 15 from the Pee Dee and Grand Strand areas. :(
 
I agree it's a shame. I also believe Sinclair tried to find a buyer for one of its lesser affiliates but couldn't find any serious buyers in the timeframe required to close the deal. Without a buyer Sinclair would have had to pay a huge breakup fee and would've lost the DC area properties, which it really wanted.

From what I've been told, WMMP actually has a better signal over the relevant part of the market since the digital transition. So, WCIV's ABC programming moves to WMMP while the current WMMP programming goes to the .2.
 
I get a weird feeling when I see the WCIV letters. I am taken back to when my parents and I stayed in this apartment building that was nice enough to live in. There were so few cable channels that they fit on what looked like a business card. Three NBC--WIS, WECT and WCIV. Two full-time ABC--WWAY and WUSN (that's what the card said but it may have been WCBD). Two CBS--WBTW (which had some ABC programs) and WCSC. Channel 9 was NOAA Weather Radio with a camera moving back and forth across a bunch of weather readings, with ads on both ends. Channels 11, 12 and 13 were music, though the card said 10, 11 and 12. I don't remember what 10 was.
 
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