WBTW is a television station licensed to Florence, South Carolina, United States, serving the Pee Dee and Grand Strand regions of South Carolina as an affiliate of CBS.
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12 Facts About WBTW
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WBTW's call sign was derived from "W" being the next letter in the alphabet after "V".
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The move came because WBTV and WBTW had a fairly significant grade B signal overlap, and neither station would have been able to expand its signal if Jefferson Standard had kept them both.
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In 1979, WBTW activated its current tower on Pee Dee Church Road in rural Dillon County, southeast of the county seat of Dillon south of South Carolina Highway 9.
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From 1995 to 2000, WBTW served as the de facto CBS affiliate for parts of the Wilmington market because former affiliate WJKA-TV switched to Fox and became WSFX-TV.
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However, WBTW still served some parts of the Wilmington area that did not receive the low-powered WILM signal over-the-air or on cable.
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On May 2,2011, a letter was submitted to the FCC requesting that WBTW be authorized to abandon its channel 13 frequency and move to channel 41, and transmit a non-directional signal with a strength of 1 million watts—equivalent to 5 million watts in analog.
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Historically, WBTW was one of the most dominant stations in the country.
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In 2004, WBTW established a news share agreement with Fox affiliate WFXB.
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In 2013, WBTW became the second station in the market to broadcast its newscasts in high definition.
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On December 1,2011, WBTW began producing an hour-long weekday morning show on WFXB.
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On September 5,2006, WBTW launched a new subchannel branded as My TV, carrying programming from MyNetworkTV and Retro TV.
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