WOLO-TV
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| Branding | ABC Columbia |
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First air date | October 1, 1961 |
Former call signs | WCCA-TV (1961–1964) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 60963 |
| ERP | 43.7 kW |
| HAAT | 530 m (1,739 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°6′58.4″N 80°45′49.9″W / 34.116222°N 80.763861°W |
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| Website | www |
WOLO-TV (channel 25), branded ABC Columbia, is a television station in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Bahakel Communications. Its studios and business offices are located on Cushman Drive (near US 1) in northeast Columbia. WOLO-TV's transmitter is located on Rush Road in southwestern Kershaw County, near Camden.
WOLO-TV began broadcasting on October 1, 1961, as WCCA-TV. It used the facilities of WCOS-TV, South Carolina's first TV station, which left the air in 1956. It brought Columbia back to having three commercial television stations. Its first owners, First Carolina Corporation, went bankrupt and sold the station to Cy Bahakel in 1964; the call sign was changed to WOLO-TV. It was one of several stations Bahakel upgraded to coincide with the All-Channel Receiver Act making UHF stations more economically viable.
WOLO-TV has perennially been a third-place outlet in local news ratings, lacking investment and, at times, a late local newscast. In the 1990s, it gained a reputation as a station with instability in management and news leadership. Between 2002 and 2005, the newscast was produced entirely from the studios of Bahakel-owned WCCB in Charlotte, North Carolina. From 2005 to 2022, the station's newscasts originated from a streetside studio in downtown Columbia.