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WWMB is CW-affiliated television station for South Carolina's Pee Dee and Grand Strand regions that is licensed to Florence. It broadcasts a 720p high definition digital signal on UHF channel 21 from a transmitter on Pee Dee Church Road in Floydale. Owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, WWMB is operated through a local marketing agreement (LMA) by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. This makes it a sister station to ABC affiliate WPDE-TV and the two outlets share studios together on University Boulevard/SC 544 in Conway. There is currently no website for WWMB. ==History== WWMB went on the air September 21, 1994 as an independent station. It was owned by Atlantic Media Group, but operated by Diversified Communications, then-owner of WPDE, under an LMA. It joined UPN as a charter affiliate on January 16, 1995. By 1999, WWMB was airing ''Access Hollywood'' starring Myrtle Beach native Nancy O'Dell.〔Toby Eddings, "'Access Hollywood' needs some viewers," ''The Sun News'', May 24, 1999.〕 Barrington Broadcasting bought WPDE in 2006. At the same time, Atlantic Media Group sold WWMB to SagamoreHill Broadcasting, which continued the LMA with WPDE. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge to form The CW. Just hours after the announcement, WPDE released a notice on its website indicating WWMB would become an affiliate of the new network. This notice was a little premature, as over the next two months, many announcements of network affiliation changes including station deals with The CW were made. The existence of a cable-only WB affiliate, "WFWB," which was carried by area cable systems as part of The WB 100+ national cable service, made a CW affiliation for WWMB seem less of a sure thing. Nevertheless, WWMB made public on April 10 it had joined The CW. On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WWMB's LMA partner WPDE-TV, to Sinclair Broadcast Group. Since the LMA is included in the group deal, SagamoreHill would be selling the license assets of WWMB to Howard Stirk Holdings (owned by conservative commentator Armstrong Williams), with WPDE continuing to operate WWMB. The sale was finalized on November 22.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101600144&formid=905&fac_num=3133〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WWMB」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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