WLOS Channel 13 Moves To Pinnacle Mountain

[KyleSmith1988]

I guess in Weaverville WLOS may have been their primary source for coverage of Hurricane Helene. But I will say WYFF, WSOC, and WBTV provided extensive coverage, with both WYFF and WSOC adding excellent chopper coverage.

I thought many TV stations in WNC have LP Repeaters in many of the mountain cities. If so, that's kinda great in the populated areas, but not so much of a reliable signal in the rural distant terrain shielded areas.

Those Blue Ridge Mountains, though they aren't always very tall, there's usually many in a row, and that can make or break any signal reception.

Deep in the WNC mountains, The entire FM dial may be nearly empty. There may be just one to few weak signals and that's it, and those few signals, can easily suffer multipath static, even with strong signal strength (such as trying to listen to WKSF in the city of Cherokee NC, and along I-40 closer to the TN border.)

 

[vchimpanzee]

Those Blue Ridge Mountains, though they aren't always very tall, there's usually many in a row, and that can make or break any signal reception.

Digital TV makes things even worse. Any obstruction doesn't merely give you snow, but nothing or just modern art with no sound.

Deep in the WNC mountains, The entire FM dial may be nearly empty. There may be just one to few weak signals and that's it, and those few signals, can easily suffer multipath static, even with strong signal strength (such as trying to listen to WKSF in the city of Cherokee NC, and along I-40 closer to the TN border.)

I remember reading an article by someone who was in that part of the mountains. He found one FM station airing a high school football game.

 

[MediaMan]

WHCC 1400 was the first radio station west of Asheville signing on in 1947. It was another 10 years before the second one, WFSC-Franklin, signed on in 1957. Sylva's WMSJ (now WRGC) soon followed. The call sign W H C C stood for Waynesville Hazelwood (a separate incorporated community until 1994), Clyde and Canton.