WLOS is a television station licensed to Asheville, North Carolina, United States, broadcasting ABC and MyNetworkTV programming to Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina.
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14 Facts About WLOS
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Until the 1990s, WLOS relayed its programming on several separately-owned municipal translator stations in Eastern Kentucky.
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Until WSOC-TV switched to ABC in 1978, WLOS was the default ABC affiliate for much of the western portion of the Charlotte market.
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WLOS-DT2 carries Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin from the ABC-syndicated programming block Weekend Adventure on a one-day delay, as the station's primary channel preempts the first half-hour of the block; WLOS-DT1 carries the remaining 2½ hours.
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WLOS produced a local children's show called Mr Bill and Bumbo, featuring now-retired weathermen Bill Norwood and Bob Caldwell .
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WLOS has preempted a fair amount of ABC network programming over the years: the station originally aired Dark Shadows on a one-day delay until it dropped the cult soap opera in 1967 ; it pre-empted fellow soaps The Edge of Night, One Life to Live and Ryan's Hope .
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Today, the station carries the majority of the ABC network schedule; however from 2011 to 2013, WLOS was one of a few ABC affiliates that preempted the network-syndicated Saturday morning block Weekend Adventure, marking the first regular ABC program preemption on the station since the early 2000s.
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WLOS produces 6 hours of locally produced newscasts each week for WLOS-DT2 .
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On September 17,2008, WLOS began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition becoming the second pair of stations in the area to upgrade after WSPA and WYCW.
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Until January 2,2015, WLOS carried a standard-definition simulcast of its main channel on digital subchannel 13.
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WLOS discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on February 17,2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate .
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WLOS operates 11 translators across the mountains of western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina.
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