WMYT-TV
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| City | Rock Hill, South Carolina |
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| Branding | Charlotte CW (Channel 55.1) |
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| Affiliations | The CW |
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| WJZY | |
| History | |
| Founded | December 3, 1992 |
First air date | October 21, 1994 |
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Call sign meaning | MyNetworkTV (previous affiliation) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 20624 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 589 m (1,932 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°21′44.5″N 81°9′18.3″W / 35.362361°N 81.155083°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | qcnews.com/my12/ |
WMYT-TV (channel 55, cable channel 12) is a television station licensed to Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States, serving as the Charlotte, North Carolina, market's outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, alongside Fox affiliate WJZY (channel 46), licensed to Belmont, North Carolina. The two stations share studios on Performance Road (along I-85) in unincorporated western Mecklenburg County (with a Charlotte mailing address) and broadcast from the same transmitter near Dallas, North Carolina, along the Catawba River.
Channel 55 spent nearly a decade in applications and hearings. Twelve applicants competed for the channel, and different levels of FCC review awarded the construction permit to three different applicants in three consecutive years. After the last winning applicant was unable to build the station, it sold the permit to Family Fifty Five Inc., which put WFVT on the air on October 21, 1994. WJZY, then owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company, supplied WFVT's programming under a local marketing agreement before Capitol acquired it outright in 1999. The station affiliated with The WB upon its launch in January 1995, changing its call sign to WWWB in 2001 to promote its affiliation, and aired a local 10 p.m. newscast between 2000 and 2002.
When The WB and UPN merged to form The CW in 2006, the network affiliated with WJZY, leaving WWWB to affiliate with MyNetworkTV under new WMYT-TV call letters. Fox acquired WJZY and WMYT in 2013 and sold them in 2019 to Nexstar. WMYT became Charlotte's affiliate of The CW on September 1, 2025.