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{{short description|MyNetworkTV affiliate in Rock Hill, South Carolina}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WMYT-TV
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| logo_size = 195px
| branding = My 12 ''(cable channel)''
| digital = 25 ([[
| virtual = 55
| affiliations = [[MyNetworkTV]]
| owner = [[Nexstar Media Group]]<ref name="wmyttonxst">{{cite web|url=https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/240879/nexstar-fox-buy-sell-five-stations/|title=Nexstar, Fox Buy/Sell Five Stations|last=Miller|first=Mark K.|work=TVNewsCheck|publisher=NewsCheckMedia|date=November 5, 2019|access-date=November 5, 2019}}</ref>
| licensee = [[
| location = {{ubl|[[Rock Hill, South Carolina]]|[[Charlotte, North Carolina]]}}
| country = United States
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| sister_stations = WJZY
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WFVT (1994–2001)|WWWB (2001–2006)}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 55 (UHF, 1994–2009)|'''Digital:''' 39 (UHF, 1999–2018)
| former_affiliations = {{ubl
| erp = 1,000 [[
| haat = {{convert|589|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 20624
| coordinates =
| licensing_authority = [[
| website = {{URL|https://www.qcnews.com/my12/|qcnews.com/my12/}}
}}
'''WMYT-TV''' (channel 55) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Rock Hill, South Carolina]], United States, serving the [[Charlotte, North Carolina]] area as an affiliate of [[MyNetworkTV]]. It is the only major [[commercial broadcasting|commercial]] television station in the Charlotte [[media market|market]] to be licensed to a community in South Carolina. WMYT-TV is owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]] alongside [[Belmont, North Carolina]]–licensed [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[WJZY]] (channel 46). Both outlets share studios on Performance Road (along [[Interstate 85 in North Carolina|I-85]]) in [[unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated]] northwestern [[Mecklenburg County, North Carolina|Mecklenburg County]] (with a Charlotte [[United States Postal Service|mailing]] address); through a [[
WMYT-TV is branded as '''My 12''', in reference to its channel location on most Charlotte area [[cable television|cable]] providers.
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===Early history===
From 1974 to 1978, the UHF channel 55 allocation in Rock Hill belonged to
The present station on channel 55 first signed on the air on October 21, 1994, as
WFVT became a charter affiliate of [[
On August 5, 1999, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) reversed its longstanding regulations against permitting common ownership of two full-power stations in the same [[
===MyNetworkTV affiliation===
Shortly after [[Fox Entertainment Group]]'s February 22, 2006, announcement of the formation of MyNetworkTV,<ref>[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/102922-News_Corp_Unveils_My_Network_TV.php News Corp. Unveils My Network TV], ''[[Broadcasting & Cable]]'', February 22, 2006.</ref> WWWB was announced as the network's Charlotte affiliate.<ref>[http://www.cbc-raleigh.com/capcom/news/2006/wjzy_06/affiliate_change/affiliate_change.htm CBC Charlotte Stations Begin New Affiliate Programming]</ref> Sister station WJZY had already decided to join [[The CW]], a network created out of [[CBS Corporation]] and [[WarnerMedia|Time Warner]]'s decision to shut down UPN and The WB, effective that September.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/business/media/24cnd-network.html?bl UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 24, 2006.</ref> It would not have been an upset had WWWB been chosen, however. CW officials were on record as preferring the "strongest" WB and UPN affiliates, and Charlotte had been one of the few markets where the WB and UPN affiliates had both been relatively strong ratings performers. WWWB's affiliation with MyNetworkTV made Charlotte the first city in the nation with a duopoly involving affiliates of both The CW and MyNetworkTV.
On April 28, 2006, WWWB changed its call letters to
WMYT served as the over-the-air home for the [[
===Sale to Fox Television Stations===
On January 14, 2013, [[Fox Television Stations]] entered into an agreement to acquire WMYT and WJZY from Capitol Broadcasting Company for $18 million (the sale was formally announced on January 28).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/65069/fox-buying-charlotte-duo-of-wjzywmyt | title=Fox Buying Charlotte Duo Of WJZY-WMYT | date=January 28, 2013 | access-date=January 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/29/3820822/charlotte-tv-deal-should-be-windfall.html Charlotte TV deal should be windfall for Fox; 'a lot of extra value'], ''[[The Charlotte Observer]]'', January 29, 2013.</ref><ref name=WCCBNews>{{cite web | url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/01/3825755/another-charlotte-tv-news-team.html | title=Will Fox Charlotte drop its news shows? No. | newspaper=Charlotte Observer| date=February 1, 2013 | access-date=February 2, 2013}}</ref> This marked a re-entry into North Carolina for Fox, which owned [[WGHP]] in [[High Point, North Carolina|High Point]] from 1996 to 2008.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/29/3818668/fox-tv-to-buy-2-charlotte-stations.html#storylink=misearch | title=Shakeup in Charlotte TV: Fox buying two local stations | date=January 29, 2013 | access-date=February 2, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923033043/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/29/3818668/fox-tv-to-buy-2-charlotte-stations.html#storylink=misearch | archive-date=September 23, 2013 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> The deal included a time brokerage agreement clause that would have had Fox take over the operations of WJZY and WMYT, and acquire the duopoly's non-license assets for $8.24 million, if the deal was not closed by June 1.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://rbr.com/price-revealed-for-fox-charlotte-tv-buy/ | title=Price revealed for Fox Charlotte TV buy | newspaper=Radio & Television Business Report | date=January 29, 2013 | access-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref> The FCC granted its approval on the sale on March 11, and the deal was consummated on April 17.<ref>[http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1537429.pdf FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT]</ref><ref>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101551154&formid=905&fac_num=20624 Extension of Consummation]</ref>
As MyNetworkTV was owned by Fox's then-parent company [[
===FCC spectrum auction and WJZY spectrum merge===
On April 13, 2017, the FCC identified that Fox Television Stations sold the spectrum of WMYT. FTS was compensated $46.4 million for WMYT to go off-the-air as part of the [[Spectrum reallocation#Broadcast incentive auction|spectrum auction]], with FTS choosing to merge WMYT's spectrum onto that of WJZY via a channel sharing arrangement. The merge was done on June 6, 2018.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|title=FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction|page=1|url=https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-314A2.pdf|access-date=April 13, 2017|date=April 13, 2017}}</ref><ref name=Rescan>{{cite web|url=http://www.fox46charlotte.com/about-us/rescan-your-tv-to-see-my12-wmyt|title=Rescan your TV to see My12 WMYT|work=Fox46Charlotte.com|publisher=[[Fox Television Stations]]|access-date=May 15, 2018}}</ref>
===Sale to Nexstar Media Group===
On November 5, 2019, [[Fox Corporation]] announced that WMYT-TV and WJZY would be acquired by [[Nexstar Media Group]] for $45 million in a deal concurrent with Fox's purchase of [[KCPQ]] and [[KZJO]] in [[Seattle]] and [[WITI (TV)|WITI]] in [[Milwaukee
==Newscasts==
In 2000, [[NBC]] affiliate [[WCNC-TV]] (channel 36) entered into a news share agreement with what was then WFVT-TV to produce a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast for the station; the program was cancelled in 2002, due to low ratings; it was the second prime time newscast produced by WCNC, which briefly produced a 10
On April 9, 2012, WMYT-TV began broadcasting a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast produced by [[CBS]] affiliate [[WBTV]] (channel 3). This program originally ran on sister station WJZY from September 2003 to April 8, 2012 (with a simulcast on both stations from April 9 to 15, 2012), although low ratings for the newscast on that station—which placed a distant third in that timeslot behind the WSOC-produced prime time newscast on WAXN-TV and WCCB's in-house 10 p.m. newscast—prompted its move to WMYT, citing a more suitable audience on channel 55. With the switch, the program was renamed accordingly from ''WBTV News at 10 on CW46'' to ''WBTV News at 10 on MyTV12''.<ref>[http://www.wbtv.com/story/17352522/wbtv-news-at-10-to-change-stations WBTV News at 10 to change stations], [[WBTV]], April 6, 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/wjyzs-10-p-m-newscast-moving-to-wmyt_b44819 WJZY’s 10 p.m. Newscast Moving to WMYT], ''[[Mediabistro.com|TVSpy]]'', April 9, 2012.</ref> The WBTV newscast moved back to WJZY when it became a Fox owned-and-operated station on July 1, 2013, before being discontinued altogether the day prior to the January 1, 2014, launch of WJZY's own news department.<ref>[http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/06/13/4104671/a-new-radio-generation-at-cbs.html A new radio generation at CBS] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004231032/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/06/13/4104671/a-new-radio-generation-at-cbs.html |date=October 4, 2013 }}, ''Charlotte Observer'', June 14, 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fox Takes Different Tack To Local News In NC|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/73436/fox-takes-different-tack-to-local-news-in-nc|work=TVNewsCheck|date=
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
{{#section:WJZY|subs}}
Prior to April 2011, the station's second [[digital subchannel]] was a [[
On September 10, 2012, it changed the
On June 6, 2018, WMYT and its subchannels were merged onto WJZY's spectrum.<ref name=Rescan/> WMYT's main schedule continues to map to 55.1, but its other subchannels became associated with WJZY's channel 46, with Sonlife moving to 46.3, Buzzr mapping to 46.7 and Light TV to 46.8.▼
▲Prior to April 2011, the station's second [[digital subchannel]] was a [[Standard-definition television|standard-definition]] [[simulcast]] of its main channel, but later went [[dark (broadcasting)|dark]]. There were plans to add the [[Retro Television Network]] to the subchannel in 2008, which never occurred; RTV would end up on [[WWJS|WHKY-TV]] digital subchannel 14.2 in early 2010.<ref>[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2007/12/07/18023/rtn-lines-up-charlotte-outlet-for-2008 RTN Lines Up Charlotte Outlet for 2008], ''TVNewsCheck'', December 7, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?action=printpage;topic=98124.0 Radio Discussions] radiodiscussions.com</ref> In May 2007, it leased its third subchannel to [[WGTB-CD|WGTB-LP]], a low-powered religious station. On December 5, 2011, WMYT replaced the WGTB-LP simulcast with programming from [[Jimmy Swaggart]]'s SonLife Broadcasting Network (one of the earliest instances in which a commercial network station has carried a non-commercial religious network through a subchannel).
▲On September 10, 2012, it changed the PSIP name of 55.2 from WMYT-SD to SOUL. The following day, a slate was added stating that the [[Soul of the South Network]] would be launching on the subchannel in the near future, and was later modified to show a launch date of May 1, 2013. However, on that date, the subchannel went dark and the PSIP name was changed to "55.2." On June 23, 2013, [[This TV]] was added to the second subchannel after being dropped from WJZY's third subchannel.<ref>[http://www.avsforum.com/t/486246/charlotte-nc-ota/5940#post_23458504 Charlotte, NC - OTA - Page 199]</ref> In late 2014, This TV was removed and the channel was soon deleted. 55.2 was reactivated on June 1, 2015 with the launch of the [[Buzzr]] network. In July 2017, 55.4 was launched with the addition of [[TheGrio|Light TV]].
▲On June 6, 2018, WMYT and its subchannels were merged onto WJZY's spectrum. WMYT's main schedule continues to map to 55.1, but its other subchannels became associated with WJZY's channel 46, with Sonlife moving to 46.3, Buzzr mapping to 46.7 and Light TV to 46.8.
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
WMYT-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[
==Out-of-market cable carriage==
In recent years, WMYT has been carried on [[Cable television|cable]] in several areas outside of the Charlotte television market, including cable systems within the [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]] and [[Florence, South Carolina|Florence]]–[[
==See also==
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{{Charlotte TV}}
{{South Carolina TV}}
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