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WCCB-TV, channel 18 (known on-air as "Fox Charlotte") is the Fox affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, the nation's 28th largest market.It signed on in 1964 as an ABC affiliate, making it North Carolina's oldest surviving UHF station. Fourteen years later, ABC had become the nation's most watched network and wanted a stronger outlet than WCCB. WSOC-TV, the longtime NBC affiliate, took the ABC affiliation. Conventional wisdom suggested WCCB would simply take the NBC affiliation. But Ted Turner, owner of 14-year-old WRET (now WCNC-TV), swooped in from out of nowhere and took the NBC affiliation, leaving WCCB out in the cold as an independent.
The station carried on for nine years as a typical UHF independent before becoming a charter affiliate of the Fox network. Since then, WCCB has been one of the strongest Fox stations in the country. After being known as "TV18" since sign-on, it was rebranded as "Fox 18" in 1988 and as "Fox Charlotte" in 2001.
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Television stations in North Carolina
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