WCBD-DT2
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Charleston, South Carolina United States |
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| Branding |
Lowcountry CW 14 News 2 (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
TV Now & Count on News 2 |
| Channels |
Digital: WCBD-DT 50.2 (UHF) Virtual: 2.2 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | The CW (via The CW Plus) |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Media General Communications Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | September 21, 1998 (as cable-only "WBLN") September 18, 2006 (as a digital subchannel of WCBD-TV) |
| Call letters' meaning | See WCBD |
| Sister station(s) | WSPA-TV, WYCW, WJBF, WSAV-TV |
| Former callsigns | "WBLN" (1998–2006) |
| Former affiliations | The WB (via The WB 100+ Station Group, as WBLN) (1998–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 581 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 10587 (digital) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°56′24.7″N 79°41′43.5″W / 32.940194°N 79.695417°W (digital) |
WCBD-DT2 is a CW-affiliated television station, part of The CW Plus, serving the Charleston, South Carolina market. It is the second subchannel of Charleston's NBC affiliate, WCBD-TV, which is owned by the Nexstar Media Group and is carried on digital subchannel 2.2. WCBD-DT2 is branded as Lowcountry CW 14 based on its standard definition cable channel position on the main local provider, Comcast (which also carries the channel in high definition on channel 1014), along with DirecTV. By market size it is the largest subchannel-only affiliate of the service. The station is also carried on WOW! channel 12 and Dish Network on channel 50.
WCBD launched their second digital subchannel on September 18, 2006 to be Charleston's affiliate of the CW, which was made up of the newly-merged UPN and WB networks. It took the channel 14 slot previously held by its cable-only WB predecessor, which effectively dissolved all operations entirely with the launch of WCBD-DT2.
The previous history of The WB in Charleston saw that network being carried exclusively on cable through "WBLN", an affiliate of The WB's smaller-market The WB 100+ Station Group and run by Coastal Media & Broadcasting and Cox Communications from September 21, 1998 until the network's end in September 2006, and was located on channel 14 on most cable systems. Before WBLN's launch, the network originated on WCTP (the current-day WCIV-DT1) in January 1995, which changed their calls to WBNU to fit their new affiliation. In January 1997, WBNU signed an affiliation agreement with UPN and changed their calls to WMMP after a change in ownership, staying with that network until September 2006 when they affiliated with MyNetworkTV; the short interregnum in 1997 saw viewers receive WB programming only from Superstation WGN before WBLN and the WB 100+ system launched.
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