WVEB-LD (channel 22), is a low-powered

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serving

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, United States that is

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to Florence, South Carolina. The station is owned by

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, as part of a

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with

WHEH-LD WHEH-LD (channel 41) is a low-power television station serving Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Its nominal city of license is Lumberton, North Carolina (in the Florence, South Carolina market), but its signal does not reach that are ...

(channel 41).Digital TV Market Listing for WVEB-LD
/ref> The signal originates from the Morris Communications Tower, located in Charlotte's Southside Park neighborhood.

History

Originally licensed to Florence, South Carolina, in the

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, the station's

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was issued in late March 2012 under the translator-style callsign of W14EB-D. The current WVEB-LD callsign was adopted on June 28, 2016. Around that time, DTV America, its current owner relocated the station to be located in Charlotte, North Carolina to become a sister station to

, the Lumberton-licensed station that DTV America already owns. A recent RabbitEars.info query of WVEB revealed that the Morris Communications Tower was elected to be the station's transmitter site. The station identification card identifies it as a Charlotte-based station, even though officially, the city of license remains to be Florence. DTV America has a handful of other stations, on the air or silent, throughout the country that has a city of license outside of the market that it is located in.RabbitEars.info query on DTV America
/ref>

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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: In November 2020,

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was replaced by

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; sometime between November–December 2020,

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was replaced by infomercials.

References

External links

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DTV AmericaCozi TV
{{Other South Carolina Stations Cozi TV affiliates Stadium (sports network) affiliates Low-power television stations in the United States Innovate Corp. VEB-LD Television channels and stations established in 2015 2015 establishments in South Carolina