Sumter, SC (April 2, 1987)

[Bluenoser]

from Sumter Daily Item

VISION CABLE
2 WOLO-ABC Colombia
3 WPCQ-NBC Charlotte
4 WCCT (unable to locate where this was, it was on ch 54 OTA)
5 WPDE-ABC Florence/Myrtle Beach
6 MTV
7 WTBS Atlanta
8 CNN
9 WLTX-CBS Columbia
10 WIS-NBC Columbia
11 ESPN
12 WRJA-PBS Sumter
13 WBTW-CBS Florence
14 CBN
15 USA Network
16 WOR Secaucus
17 Lifetime
18 FNN/QVC
19 Disney Channel
20 HBO
21 Cinemax
22 The Movie Channel
24 Discovery Channel
25 A&E
26 CNN Headline News
27 BET
28 Weather Channel
29 Nickelodeon
30 Tempo
31 TNN
32 VH1
33 HSN
34 C-SPAN/CVN
36 Local Origination

ALERT CABLE
2 CNN
3 ESPN
4 WCIV-ABC Charleston
5 WCSC-CBS Charleston
6 CBN
7 WTBS Atlanta
8 TNN
9 Nickelodeon
10 WIS-NBC Columbia
11 WRJA-PBS Sumter
12 WOLO-ABC Columbia
13 WBTW-CBS Florence
16 HBO
17 WPDE-ABC Florence/Myrtle Beach
18 Weather Channel
19 Lifetime
20 The Movie Channel
21 WGN Chicago
22 Disney Channel

 

[ngriffin]

Might WCCT be a misprint for WCCB-18 in Charlotte?

 

[itsTheRolyPoly]

WCCT is today's WACH FOX 57 Columbia. But WCCT has always been on Channel 57.

 

[ftballfan]

Also, WCIV was NBC at the time (it flipped to ABC in 1995)

 

[IM42A]

WPCQ-36 was left over from when WRET-36 was an independent station carried throughout much of SC and NC. It took the cable companies a while to remove it, when it became an NBC affiliate, so you had the situation of a redundant distant NBC affiliate carried far from Charlotte in areas where other Charlotte network affiliates weren't carried. Also, Florence stations are no longer carried on Sumter cable. WBTW used to get into Sumter and Camden when its transmitter was in Florence proper, instead of being out in Dillon County near South of the Border (Hamer). Likewise, Charleston stations are no longer carried in Sumter. Back in the early days, they were preferred in Sumter over Columbia UHF stations WNOK-19 (now WLTX) and WOLO-25.