Logopedia
Advertisement
1953–1956 1956–1967 1967–1972 1970–1972 1973–1979 1979–1983
1953–1956 1956–1967 1967–1972 1970–1972 1973–1979 1979–1983
1983–1986 1986–1991 1991–1993 1993–2000 2000–present  
1983–1986 1986–1991 1991–1993 1993–2000 2000–present

WFBC-TV[]

1953–1956[]

WFBC 1953

Originally signed on the air on December 31, 1953 as WFBC-TV; it was the fifth television station to sign on in South Carolina, and transmitted its signal from a tower located on Paris Mountain. The station was owned by the Peace family and their News-Piedmont Publishing Company alongside local newspapers The Greenville News and The Greenville Piedmont, and was a sister station to WFBC radio (1330 AM, now WYRD, and 93.7 FM).

1956–1967[]

10486433 926135520832324 8491359294529283621 n

In 1961, the News-Piedmont Publishing Company purchased WBIR-AM-FM-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee from the former Taft Broadcasting Company. News-Piedmont merged with Southern Broadcasting to form Multimedia, Inc., with WFBC-AM-FM-TV as the company's flagship stations.

1967–1972[]

WFBC 4 1967

1970–1972[]

WFBC

1973–1983[]

WFBC-WYFF arrow 4

This "arrow 4" logo was also used by KDFW in Dallas-Fort Worth (albeit straightened).

1973–1979[]

WFBC41975logo
Logopedia InfoWhite SVG NEEDED

1979–1983[]

WFBC41979logo
Logopedia InfoWhite SVG NEEDED

WFBC-TV began using the "Your Friend 4" slogan in 1979, which would form the basis of its next callsign in 1983.

WYFF[]

1983–1991[]

WFBC-WYFF arrow 4

1983–1986[]

WYFF 4 logo
Logopedia InfoWhite SVG NEEDED

WFBC-TV changed its callsign to the current WYFF on March 3, 1983 after Multimedia traded channel 4 and sister station WXII-TV to the Pulitzer Publishing Company in exchange for KSDK (VHF channel 5) in St. Louis; it retained the "arrow 4" logo it had been using since 1973. Although Pulitzer closed on its purchase of WXII later in the year, the acquisition of WYFF wouldn't be finalized for another two years until January 1985 as Pulitzer had to sell off WLNE-TV in Providence in order to comply with FCC ownership limits of the time that limited the number of stations one company can own to twelve; in the interim, Pulitzer took over the operations of WYFF through a time brokerage agreement with Multimedia.

1986–1991[]

WYFF4NewscastOpen1987
Logopedia InfoWhite SVG NEEDED

The "arrow 4" logo became gold in color.

1991–1993[]

WYFF 1991

1993-present[]

1993–2000[]

WYFF 93

Hearst-Argyle Television acquired Pulitzer's entire broadcasting division for $1.8 billion in 1998, the sale was finalized on March 18 of the following year (1999).

2000–present[]

WYFF NBC 4

Sans-serif variant of the 1993 "Circle 4".

External links[]

Advertisement