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{{Short description|Television station in Charlotte, North Carolina}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WSOC-TV
| city = 
| logo = WSOC-TV logo.svg
| logo_size = 150px
| image = WSOC-DT2 Logo.png
| image_size = 120px
| branding = {{ubl|Channel 9; ''Channel 9 [[Eyewitness News]]''|{{lang|es|italic=no|Telemundo Charlotte}} (9.2)}}
| digital = 19 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 9
| translators = ''see {{section link||Translators}}''
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''9.1:''' [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]|'''9.2:''' [[Telemundo]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[Cox Media Group]]
| licensee = WSOC Television, [[LLC]]
| location = [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]
| country = United States
| airdate = {{start date and age|1957|04|28|p=y}}
| last_airdate = 
| callsign_meaning = {{ubl|"We Serve Our Community"|-or-|"Sounds of Charlotte"|(both from WSOC radio)}}
| sister_stations = [[WAXN-TV]]
| former_callsigns = 
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 9 ([[VHF]], 1957–2009)|'''Digital:''' 34 (UHF, 1999–2019)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[NBC]] (1957–1978)}}
| erp = 1,000 [[Watt|kW]]
| haat = {{convert|356|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 74070
| coordinates = {{coord|35|15|41.1|N|80|43|36.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.wsoctv.com/}}
}}

'''WSOC-TV''' (channel 9) is a [[television station]] in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], United States, affiliated with [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[Telemundo]]. It is owned by [[Cox Media Group]] alongside [[Kannapolis]]-licensed [[independent station]] [[WAXN-TV]] (channel 64). The two stations share studios on West 23rd Street north of uptown Charlotte; WSOC-TV's transmitter is located near [[Reedy Creek Park]] in the Newell section of the city.

==History==
The station first signed on the air on April 28, 1957,<ref name="highdef">{{cite news|title=Channel 9 Eyewitness News Is Now In High Definition!|url=http://www.wsoctv.com/news/12833433/detail.html|date=April 22, 2007|publisher=WSOC-TV|location=Charlotte, NC|access-date=February 6, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928120844/http://www.wsoctv.com/news/12833433/detail.html|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}</ref> as Charlotte's third television station, after [[WBTV]] (channel 3) and WAYS-TV (channel 36, later WQMC-TV); it was also Charlotte's second station on the [[VHF]] band. It operated from a temporary facility on Plaza Road Extension in what was then a rural portion of eastern Mecklenburg County.

WSOC was originally locally owned by Carolina Broadcasting, operated by the Jones family, along with WSOC radio (1240 AM, now [[WYFQ]] on 930 AM, and [[WSOC-FM|103.7 FM]]). WSOC was the second radio station to sign on in Charlotte, having made its debut in 1929, seven years after the debut of [[WBT (AM)|WBT]] (1110 AM). Channel 9 originally operated as a primary [[NBC]] affiliate (owing to WSOC radio's affiliation with the [[NBC Red Network]]), and maintained a secondary affiliation with ABC, sharing the network with WBTV. In 1959, Carolina Broadcasting merged with the Miami Valley Broadcasting Company, forerunner of Cox Enterprises. That same year, it dedicated its studios on North Tryon Street.

Channel 36 went off the air in 1955. It operated as educational WUTV from 1961 to 1963, then returned to the air in November 1964 as [[WCCB]]. WCCB moved to the stronger UHF channel 18 allocation in November 1966, but it continued to be at a competitive disadvantage because many Charlotte-area households did not yet have television sets with UHF tuning capability. As a result, ABC retained a secondary affiliation with WSOC and WBTV, while WCCB aired programs from all three networks (ABC, NBC and [[CBS]]) that WSOC and WBTV declined to air. In 1967, WSOC became an exclusive NBC affiliate, while WCCB became a full-time ABC affiliate.<ref>"Channel 9 Will Stick With NBC, Quit ABC," ''The Charlotte Observer'', June 2, 1967, p. 14.</ref>

By 1978, ABC had become the highest-rated broadcast television network in the United States for the first time; the network wanted a stronger affiliate in Charlotte than WCCB. WSOC switched its affiliation back to ABC on July 1, 1978, this time as a full-time affiliate. NBC programming was moved over to former independent station WRET (channel 36, now [[WCNC-TV]]), due to a promise by then-owner [[Ted Turner]] to make $2.5 million in upgrades to that station, including the planned launch of a news department and a more powerful transmitter.<ref>''The Charlotte Observer'', Apr 25 and 29, 1978.</ref> WCCB became an independent station by default, remaining so for the next nine years until it affiliated with [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] when that network launched in October 1986. The WSOC radio stations were sold off in the early 1990s (the AM station, now WYFQ, is now owned by [[Bible Broadcasting Network]]; WSOC-FM is currently owned by [[Beasley Broadcast Group]]).

By the mid-1990s, WSOC-TV had a problem. It owned the rights to a large amount of syndicated programming, but increased local news commitments left it without enough time in its broadcast day to air it all. In 1996, it found a solution in the form of a [[joint sales agreement]] with independent station WKAY-TV (channel 64). As part of the deal, WKAY moved its operations to WSOC-TV's studios and changed its call letters to WAXN-TV. Under the JSA, channel 9 bought WAXN's entire broadcast day, using it to air much of channel 9's surplus inventory of syndicated programming. One of those programs was ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]''; it had been a mainstay on channel 9 for decades on weekday afternoons at 5 p.m. before being bumped in favor of a 5 p.m. newscast. Cox purchased WAXN outright for $3 million in 1999, shortly after the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) reversed its long-standing ban on television station [[duopoly (broadcasting)|duopolies]];<ref>{{cite press release | title = FCC Revises Local Television Ownership Rules | publisher = Federal Communications Commission | date = August 5, 1999 | url = http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/News_Releases/1999/nrmm9019.html | access-date = January 31, 2007}}</ref> the sale was officially approved by the FCC in 2000.<ref>{{cite web | title = Television Application For Assignment Of License Granted | publisher = Federal Communications Commission | date = January 31, 2000 | url = http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Public_Notices/Brdcst_Actions/ac000203.txt | access-date = January 31, 2007 }}</ref> WSOC-TV served as the Charlotte "Love Network" affiliate of the ''[[Jerry Lewis]] [[MDA Labor Day Telethon]]'' from 1974 to 2001; the program moved to WAXN thereafter, before returning to WSOC in 2013 (by this point, known as the ''MDA Show of Strength'') after the program abandoned its syndicated long-form [[telethon]] format and became a shortened two-hour network telecast on ABC; the telecast was discontinued after 2014.

On December 21, 2010, a distraught 51-year-old woman armed with a gun entered the WSOC-TV studios, forcing the station to temporarily go off the air just after the start of that evening's 5 p.m. newscast. After a one-hour standoff, the woman was taken into custody; it was later determined that the gun was not loaded. No injuries were reported in the incident.<ref name="gun">{{ cite web |url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2010/12/22/47922/woman-with-gun-at-wsoc-in-custody |title=Woman With Gun At WSOC In Custody |date=December 22, 2010 |publisher=TVNewsCheck |access-date=December 22, 2010}}</ref>

In February 2019, it was announced that [[Apollo Global Management]] would acquire Cox Media Group and [[Northwest Broadcasting]]'s stations.<ref name="coxsaletoapollo1">{{cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/174558/apollo-global-management-acquires-coxs-television-stations-plus-radio-newspapers-in-dayton/|title=Apollo Global Management Acquires Cox's Television Stations Plus Radio & Newspapers In Dayton|work=RadioInsight|date=February 15, 2019|access-date=February 15, 2019}}</ref><ref name="terriermedia">{{cite web|url=https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/231448/cox-tv-valued-3-1-billion-apollo-acquisition/|title=Cox TV Valued At $3.1 Billion In Apollo Acquisition|last=Jessell|first=Harry A.|work=TVNewsCheck|publisher=NewsCheckMedia LLC|date=March 6, 2019|access-date=March 6, 2019|archive-date=March 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307002857/https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/231448/cox-tv-valued-3-1-billion-apollo-acquisition/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Although the group planned to operate under the name Terrier Media, it was later announced in June 2019 that Apollo would also acquire Cox's radio and advertising businesses, and retain the Cox Media Group name.<ref name="rbr-radiosaletoapollo">{{cite news |last1=Jacobson |first1=Adam |title=It's Official: Cox Radio, Gamut, CoxReps Going To Apollo |url=https://www.rbr.com/cox-media-group-radio-apollo/ |access-date=June 26, 2019 |work=Radio & Television Business Report |date=June 26, 2019}}</ref> The sale was completed on December 17, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/182425/apollo-global-management-closes-on-its-acquisition-of-cox-media-group/|title=Apollo Global Management Closes On Its Acquisition Of Cox Media Group|last=Venta|first=Lance|work=RadioInsight|date=December 17, 2019|access-date=December 17, 2019}}</ref>

During the [[2024–25 Charlotte Hornets season|2024–25 season]], the [[Charlotte Hornets]], [[FanDuel Sports Network Southeast]] and Cox Media Group reached an agreement allowing CMG to simulcast five Hornets games on over-the-air stations. In Charlotte, two games will air on WSOC with the other three games on sister station WAXN.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 14, 2025 |title=Charlotte Hornets Partner With WSOC-TV Channel 9 & TV 64 To Simulcast Five Games On Free, Over-The-Air Television |url=https://www.nba.com/hornets/news/charlotte-hornets-partner-with-wsoc-tv-channel-9-tv-64-to-simulcast-five-games-on-free-over-the-air-television |access-date=January 14, 2025 |publisher=[[Charlotte Hornets]]}}</ref>

==News operation==
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WSOC-TV presently broadcasts {{frac|37|1|2}} hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with {{frac|5|1|2}} hours each weekday and five hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, the station produces an additional 17 hours of newscasts each week for sister station WAXN-TV (in the form of a two-hour extension of WSOC's weekday morning newscast and an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast).

Since the early 1970s, WSOC-TV has used the ''[[Eyewitness News]]'' brand for its newscasts. However, its overall news presentation is very similar to the ''[[Action News]]'' format at Atlanta sister station WSB-TV. When channel 9 expanded its 6 p.m. newscast to a full hour, it began airing ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'' at 7 p.m. This ended in 1993, when the addition of a newscast at 5:30&nbsp;p.m. led the station to cut back the 6 p.m. newscast to a half hour and ''World News Tonight'' moved back to 6:30.

For most of its first quarter-century on the air, WSOC's newscasts placed a very distant second in the Charlotte market, behind the longer-established WBTV. However, in 1981, the station scored a major coup when longtime WBTV anchorman Doug Mayes moved to WSOC as its noon anchor, where he stayed until his retirement in 1992. Mayes said years later that WSOC made an offer too generous for him to turn down, considering that he had two kids in college at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbtv.com/story/23547364/doug-mayes-returnsto-wbtv-tonight-at-11 |title=Broadcasting legend, Doug Mayes, returns to WBTV for final broad – WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC |publisher=Wbtv.com |date=September 27, 2013 |access-date=August 1, 2015}}</ref>  The move quickly paid off; in 1982, it overtook WBTV for the lead at 11 p.m., a lead it held for almost 25 years. It surpassed WBTV in most other timeslots beginning in 1990, but lost the lead in the noon time period to WBTV in 1994.

Channel 9's two-decade dominance of the early evening news timeslots largely stemmed from the former presence of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah]]'' as a lead-in to the 5&nbsp;p.m. newscast; the syndicated talk show aired on channel 9 throughout its national run from 1986 to 2011. During the February 2011 ratings period, the station's newscasts won in every time slot except noon and 11 p.m., which were won by WBTV.<ref name="classics">{{cite web| url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/03/12/2132045/classics-rolling-on-little-known.html|title=Classics Rolling-on Everytime|access-date=March 13, 2011 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> WSOC-TV lost the lead at noon as well in the February 2013 sweeps period.<ref>[http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/09/4223425/about-140000-lose-wbtv-in-dish.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130903165356/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/09/4223425/about-140000-lose-wbtv-in-dish.html|date=September 3, 2013}}</ref>

By the February 2016 sweeps, however, the departure of a number of key reporters in 2015 resulted in WSOC-TV falling to second place in all timeslots. However, it maintained its historic dominance east of the [[Catawba River]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/tv/media-scene-blog/article63645822.html|title=Historic sweep: WBTV wrestles the news ratings lead from WSOC|last=Washburn|first=Mark|publisher=[[The Charlotte Observer]]|date=March 2, 2016}}</ref> WSOC-TV would regain the market lead by 2023, where the station leads in three key timeslots.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/local-news-close-up-news-battle-royale-in-queen-city-of-charlotte|title=Local News Close-Up: News Battle Royale in Queen City of Charlotte|last=Malone|first=Michael|publisher=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|date=October 20, 2023|access-date=October 20, 2023}}</ref>

Since 2000, WSOC-TV has produced a 10 p.m. newscast for sister station WAXN-TV. The program originated on then-[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate WCCB through a news share agreement established with that station in 1999, until the summer of 1999, when WCNC took over production of the prime time newscast shortly before WCCB launched its own news department in January 2000. During the February 2011 ratings period, WSOC's 10 p.m. newscast on WAXN placed second behind WCCB's in-house newscast; it also placed ahead of the WBTV-produced newscast on then-[[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[WJZY]] (channel 46, now a Fox affiliate), as well as the 11 p.m. newscast on WCNC.<ref name="classics" /> Bill Walker served as WSOC's main anchor from 1971 until his retirement in 2005, the longest tenure of any news anchor in Charlotte television history.{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}

On April 22, 2007, WSOC-TV became the first television station in the Charlotte market and the second station in North Carolina overall (after [[Raleigh]] CBS affiliate [[WRAL-TV]]) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in [[high-definition television|high definition]] (WSOC was also the fourth Cox-owned station to upgrade its newscasts to HD, following WSB-TV and [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]]'s WFTV); the WAXN broadcasts were not included in the upgrade until October 2008.<ref name="highdef"/> In September 2010, WSOC began producing a two-hour extension of its morning newscast for WAXN, airing from 7 to 9&nbsp;a.m. (which competes with WSOC's broadcast of ''[[Good Morning America]]'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/06/12/1494501/more-news-shows-coming-in-the.html| title=More News Shows Coming-in to beat WSOC's broadcast of GMA|access-date=August 12, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

On August 26, 2012, starting with its 6 p.m. newscast, WSOC-TV debuted a brand new news set and graphics package as well as an updated version of the station's "Circle 9" logo, which has been in use since 1984.<ref>[http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/08/24/3474074/channel-9-launches-new-look-on.html Channel 9 launches new look on Sunday] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130119025839/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/08/24/3474074/channel-9-launches-new-look-on.html |date=January 19, 2013 }}, ''[[Charlotte Observer]]'', August 24, 2012.</ref> On December 2, 2013, WSOC expanded the WAXN 10&nbsp;p.m. newscast to one hour, citing the growing audience for the program (which had been placing at #1, among the prime time newscast in the Charlotte market; ahead of WCCB's late evening newscast and a WBTV-produced program on WJZY, which has since been replaced with its own in-house newscast) as the reason for the expansion.<ref>[http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/eyewitness-news-10-pm-waxn-tv64-expanding-1-hour/nbzqh/ Eyewitness News at 10 p.m. on WAXN-TV 64 expanding to 1-hour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014453/http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/eyewitness-news-10-pm-waxn-tv64-expanding-1-hour/nbzqh/ |date=December 3, 2013 }} ''WSOC.com'', November 21, 2013.</ref>

===Notable former on-air staff===
* [[Peter Daut]] – anchor/reporter (2012–2014); now at [[KESQ-TV]]
* [[Doreen Gentzler]] – anchor/reporter (1979–1983); later at [[WRC-TV]] until her retirement in 2022
* [[Chuck Goudie]] – news reporter/sports anchor (1977–1980); now at [[WLS-TV]] 
* [[Harold Johnson (sportscaster)|Harold Johnson]] – sports director (1979–2006); retired; later became 2010 [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate for [[U.S. House of Representatives]], [[North Carolina's 8th congressional district|8th District of North Carolina]]
* [[Michelle Kosinski]] – reporter; now at [[CNN]] 
* [[Bob Lamey]] – sportscaster, former [[Indianapolis Colts]] radio play-by-play broadcaster; now retired
* [[Diana Williams]] – reporter (1979–1982); later at [[WABC-TV]]; now retired

==Technical information==

===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of WSOC-TV<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WSOC#station RabbitEars TV Query for WSOC]</ref>
! scope="col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope="col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope="col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope="col" | Short name
! scope="col" | Programming
|-
! scope="row" | 9.1
| rowspan=2| [[720p]] || rowspan=2| [[16:9]] || WSOC-TV || [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
|-
! scope="row" | 9.2
| TMNDO. || [[Telemundo]]
|-
! scope="row" | 9.3
| rowspan="2" | [[480i]] || [[4:3]] || getTV || [[Get (TV network)|Get]]
|-
!9.4
|16:9
|CometTV
|[[Comet (TV network)|Comet]]
|- style="background-color:#DFEBF6; border-top: 2px solid #003399;"
! scope="row" | [[WAXN-TV|64.3]]
| 480i || 16:9 || Mystery || [[Ion Mystery]] ([[WAXN-TV|WAXN-DT3]]) 
|- style="background-color:#DFEBF6"
|}

{{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}

On March 9, 2017, WSOC-TV announced that it would launch [[Telemundo]] Charlotte, on subchannel 9.2, which launched on June 1 of that year. [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]], which was on subchannel 9.2 since April 15, 2015, relocated to WAXN-DT4. WSOC-DT2 effectively took over the channel positions on pay-TV providers in the Charlotte market upon that day for Telemundo's national feed. WSOC-DT2 also features a secondary Spanish-language [[local news]] operation which draws from both the resources of WSOC and its own reporting.<ref>{{cite news|last=Washburn|first=Mark|date=March 9, 2017|title=WSOC to launch new TV channel in Spanish|newspaper=[[The Charlotte Observer]]|location=Charlotte, NC|url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/tv/media-scene-blog/article137489278.html|access-date=March 9, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=July 31, 2017|title=WSOC-TV launches Telemundo Charlotte {{!}} WSOC-TV|url=http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/wsoc-tv-launches-telemundo-charlotte-on-thursday/528432378|access-date=June 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731063743/http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/wsoc-tv-launches-telemundo-charlotte-on-thursday/528432378 |archive-date=July 31, 2017 }}</ref> It is the first full-power over-the-air Spanish-language station in Charlotte. On May 2, 2022, [[GetTV]] switched channels from [[WAXN-TV]] to WSOC-TV subchannel 9.3.

===Analog to digital conversion===
WSOC-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 9, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 34,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> until it moved to channel 19 as part of the digital repack in 2019. With the switch to digital, viewers in several parts of Charlotte itself needed an attic-mounted or roof-mounted antenna to get a clear picture from the station. Digital television receivers display the station's [[virtual channel]] as its former VHF analog channel 9.

===NextGen TV===
WSOC-TV upgraded to [[NextGen TV]] on June 29, 2021.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article252645748.html|title=These Charlotte TV stations upgraded broadcasts. Here's what that means for viewers.|last=Egitto|first=Daniel|work=[[The Charlotte Observer]]|date=July 8, 2021|accessdate=July 8, 2021}}</ref>

===Translators===
Although WSOC-TV's digital transmitter operates at a full million watts, several portions of the market lost coverage when the station switched to digital. The station operates three digital [[Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|translators]] to improve coverage in these areas: W26FA-D in [[Valdese, North Carolina|Valdese]] signed on the air on May 28, 2009 (simulcasting WSOC on digital channel 6.1 and a [[widescreen]] [[standard definition]] feed of WAXN on digital subchannel 6.2), in order to serve the [[Unifour]] region of the state. WSOCTV1 is a displacement translator on VHF channel 12 (virtual channel 9.5), which transmits from [[Crowders Mountain]] to serve [[Shelby, North Carolina|Shelby]],<ref name="license">{{cite web|author=FCC Internet Services Staff |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1321792&Service=LD&Form_id=346&Facility_id=74070 |title=Application View ... Redirecting |publisher=Licensing.fcc.gov |access-date=August 1, 2015}}</ref> it signed on the air on January 15, 2010. WSOCTV2, [[Statesville, North Carolina|Statesville]] went on the air on June 23, 2012, at 5:58&nbsp;p.m., broadcasting on VHF channel 12 (virtual channel 9.9).<ref name="license"/> WSOC previously operated a displacement translator for WAXN-TV in [[China Grove, North Carolina|China Grove]], on WAXNTV1 (UHF channel 30), which also carried a widescreen standard definition feed of WSOC-TV on virtual channel 9.7, until it was shut down on October 15, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avsforum.com/t/486246/charlotte-nc-ota/5190#post_22494644 |title=Charlotte, NC – OTA – Page 330 – AVS Forum &#124; Home Theater Discussions And Reviews |publisher=AVS Forum |access-date=August 1, 2015}}</ref>

====W26FA-D Marion====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ {{sronly|Subchannels of W26FA-D Marion}}
! scope="col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope="col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope="col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope="col" | Short name
! scope="col" | Programming<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=W26FA#station RabbitEars TV Query for W26FA]</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 6.1
|  [[720p]] || rowspan=2| [[16:9]] || WSOC-TR || Simulcast of WSOC-TV
|-
|- style="background-color:#DFEBF6; border-top: 2px solid #003399;"
! scope="row" | [[WAXN-TV|6.2]]
| |[[480i]] || WAXN-TR || [[Ion Mystery]] ([[WAXN-TV]]) 
|- style="background-color:#DFEBF6"
|}

{{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}

====WSOC-CR Shelby====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ {{sronly|Subchannels of WSOC from the Crowders Mountain transmitter (Shelby)}}
! scope = "col" | Channel 
! scope = "col" | [[Video resolution|Res.]] 
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]] 
! scope = "col" | Short name 
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.5 
| [[720p]] || rowspan=2| [[16:9]] || WSOC-CR || Simulcast of WSOC-TV
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.6 
| [[480i]] || TELE-CR || Simulcast of WSOC 9.2
|}

====WSOC-ST Statesville====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ {{sronly|Subchannels of WSOC from the Statesville transmitter}}
! scope = "col" | Channel 
! scope = "col" | [[Video resolution|Res.]] 
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]] 
! scope = "col" | Short name 
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.9 
| [[720p]] || rowspan=2| [[16:9]] || WSOC-ST || Simulcast of WSOC-TV
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.10 
| [[480i]] || Tele-ST || Simulcast of WSOC 9.2
|}

==Out-of-market cable and DirecTV carriage==
In recent years, WSOC has been carried on [[Cable television|cable]] in several areas outside of the Charlotte [[television market]], including on cable systems within the [[Greensboro]]–[[Winston-Salem]]–[[High Point, North Carolina|High Point]] market in North Carolina, the [[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]] and [[Florence, South Carolina|Florence]]–[[Myrtle Beach]] markets in [[South Carolina]], and the [[Tri-Cities, Tennessee|Tri-Cities]] market in [[Tennessee]] and [[Virginia]]. On [[DirecTV]], WSOC has been carried in several counties that are part of the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point market.<ref>[http://svtvstations.webs.com/svtvstations.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502223103/http://svtvstations.webs.com/svtvstations.htm|date=May 2, 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://www.wsoctv.com/}}
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[[Category:1957 establishments in North Carolina]]
[[Category:American Broadcasting Company affiliates]]
[[Category:Comet (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Cox Media Group]]
[[Category:Get (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Telemundo affiliates]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1957]]
[[Category:Television stations in Charlotte, North Carolina|SOC-TV]]