WSOC-TV is the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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-affiliated television station in Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina

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. It is owned by Cox Enterprises

Cox Enterprises

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. The station's studio is located at North Tryon and 23rd Streets, just north of Uptown Charlotte

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, and is shared with sister station WAXN-TV

WAXN-TV

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 (channel 64). The transmitter is located just outside Charlotte's northeastern city limits, in the Newell-Hickory Grove area. WSOC-TV is carried on cable channel 4 on cable systems in Charlotte, Gastonia

Gastonia

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 and Rock Hill

Rock Hill

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 and on channel 9 in most outlying areas.
WSOC-TV signed on April 28, 1957.http://www.wsoctv.com/news/12833433/detail.html It was Charlotte's third television station, after WBTV

WBTV

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 and WAYS-TV, which broadcast on channel 36 from 1954 to 1955.