WCSC-TV

WCSC-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for South Carolina's Lowcountry area licensed to Charleston. Its broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 (PSIP channel 5.1) from a transmitter in Awendaw. Owned by Raycom Media, the station's studios are located in the West Ashley section of Charleston. Both the studio and road are named for long-time WCSC personalities; Bill Sharpe, a news anchor since 1973, and Charlie Hall, the station's original personality who died just months before its relocation to the current facilities in 1997.

History

WCSC-TV began broadcasting on June 19, 1953 from studios on East Bay Street in Downtown Charleston. It was the second television station in South Carolina and the oldest continuously broadcasting channel in the state (the first was WCOS-TV in Columbia now WOLO-TV). It is the only station in Charleston to keep its original network affiliation since sign-on. The channel aired an analog signal on VHF channel 5 and was originally owned by the Rivers family along with WCSC radio (AM 1390 now WSPO, and 96.9 FM now WIWF).