It ran NBC News Overnight (later Nightside), Home Shopping Spree and CNN Headline News overnight. Although Pulitzer closed on WXII later in 1983, the acquisition of WYFF would not be finalized until January 1985 because Pulitzer had to sell off WLNE-TV in Providence in order to comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership limits of the time in the interim, Pulitzer took over the operations of WYFF through a time brokerage agreement with Multimedia.Ĭhannel 4 was the first upstate television station to begin 24/7 broadcasting, and did so in the fall of 1988. Pulitzer also acquired WXII-TV in the Piedmont Triad as part of the same deal. At that point, Channel 4 changed its call letters to WYFF-TV ( We're Your Friend Four). In an unusual trade of one group's flagship station for another, WFBC-TV was traded to Pulitzer Publishing Company in return for KSD-TV (now KSDK) in St. In 1983, due to new rules restricting common ownership of newspapers and broadcasting outlets in the same market, Multimedia sold off its Upstate cluster. In the mid 1970s, the famous "Arrow 4" logo was introduced and was used in one form or another for many years. In 1968, News-Piedmont merged with Southern Broadcasting to form Multimedia, Inc., with WFBC AM/-FM/-TV as the flagship stations. Locally televised color programming also began in February 1967. An earlier version of the program, Kids Korral, was hosted by Johnny Wright. The show continued as The Rascal's Clubhouseafter DuPuy's departure in 1978 and continued until 1982. Doohickey (wearing a hat with an old Santa's beard). Monty's Rascals (started in 1960) was one of the station's popular children's shows, starring two channel 4 weathermen: Monty DuPuy (who left in 1978) and Stowe Hoyle as Mr. Norvin Duncan was the station's first news anchor, moving from the radio side. For its first two years of operation, its studios were located on Paris Mountain before moving to its current location on Rutherford Street in 1955. It was owned by the Peace family and their News-Piedmont Publishing Company along with The Greenville News, The Greenville Piedmont and WFBC radio (1330 AM, now WYRD, and 93.7 FM). The station went on the air on Decem as WFBC-TV, South Carolina's fifth television station, broadcasting from a transmitter located on Paris Mountain. Greenville/ Spartanburg/ Anderson, South Carolina/ Asheville, North Carolina WYFF maintains studio facilities located on Rutherford Street (west of Route 276) in northwest Greenville, and its transmitter is located near Caesars Head State Park in northwestern Greenville County. The station is owned by theHearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation. An interactive radar that lets you zoom in and out to street level and watch storms as they approach.WYFF, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 36), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Up to date, current local weather conditions, hourly Greenville weather updates, and 7 day forecasts Local news submission area for breaking news, news tips and the ability to email your news photos and videos right to our newsroom to be featured on air Live streaming breaking news updates from our WYFF News 4 reporters when it happens, where it happens Greenville breaking news alerts with push notifications Our Local News, Weather and Sports App Features Include: Download the WYFF News 4 app for free today. Always stay up to date with the latest local news, national, sports, traffic, political, entertainment stories and much more. Take the WYFF News 4 app with you everywhere you go and be the first to know of breaking news happening in Greenville and the surrounding area.
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