WNSC-TV

WNSC-TV, virtual channel 30 (UHF digital channel 15), is a PBS member television station located in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States. The station is owned by the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, and operates as a sister station to news/talk radio station WNSC-FM (88.9). WNSC-TV maintains studio facilities located on the campus of York Technical College in Rock Hill, and its transmitter is located in southeastern York County (east of I-77). WNSC-TV operates as a member station of South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV). On cable, WNSC-TV is available on channel 15 throughout most of the Charlotte, North Carolina television market.

History

The station first signed on the air on January 3, 1978. WNSC debuted as the sixth full-power station aligned with SCETV, and the third public television station to serve the Charlotte area, after WTVI (channel 42) and Concord, North Carolina-based UNC-TV station WUNG-TV (channel 58). Previously, South Carolina ETV programming had been seen in the Rock Hill area via a low-power translator station on UHF channel 55 (channel now occupied by MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WMYT-TV).