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Additionally, Columbia has only eight full-power stations, one fewer than what ownership rules allow to legally permit a duopoly in any case. Between them, these five stations cover almost all of South Carolina. The station took full advantage of its near-statewide coverage to establish a tradition for strong local news coverage that continues today. The station is owned by. For the better part of channel 10's history, its newscasts have dominated the ratings in Columbia. From the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, it was the only station in the market that offered a full schedule of local newscasts in all four dayparts morning, midday, early and late evening.

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One of the country's most dominant television stations, it has been the far-and-away market leader for most of its history. It added a 6:00 p. At the time, Raycom had already owned affiliate channel 57. Four years later, the series would receive a for excellence in public service by way of children's programming. Audé used a wheelchair due to having been in an automobile accident.

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Liberty sold off its insurance businesses in 2000, bringing channel 10 directly under the Liberty Corporation banner. Later in the decade, Liberty Life reorganized itself as the , with Liberty Life and Cosmos as subsidiaries. On , the station is available on channel 3 in both and. The show ran for 37 years, airing its final episode in 2000. Channel 10 continues to enjoy a staff with remarkably long tenures for a market of Columbia's size, including Jack Kuenzie, Judi Gatson, Dawndy Mercer Plank, Ben Tanner and Rick Henry, some of whom have been figures at the station for two decades. .

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It was one of only a few stations in the at the time to air a local newscast at 7:00 p. It would remain the tallest structure in South Carolina until Florence's activated its signal in 1981. The Broadcasting Company of the South acquired several other television stations over the years. Although Columbia was the state's largest city for most of the 20th century and well into the new millennium, it has always been a small-to-medium-sized market because the surrounding suburban and rural areas are not much larger than the city itself. The two remained paired together on its weekday evening newscasts until Carter retired in 1998; Audé later retired in 2006.

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Carter became the station's main anchor in 1972, and Audé—by then known as Susan Audé Fisher she divorced in 2000 —joined him at the anchor desk in 1982. The station's first telecast was a game between the and the. In 1963, the station debuted a long-running Mr. However, Columbia was sandwiched between which had respectively been awarded channels and to the north, — to the east, Charleston channels , , , and and channels , , and to the south, channels and to the west, and —— channels , , and to the northwest. The station signed on a full-time digital transmitter from its Lugoff tower on June 19. As mentioned above, Joe Pinner served as a weatherman and children's host at the station from 1963 until his retirement in 2018. It also began selling advertising specific to the market as well, mostly on the Pee Dee side.

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Channel 10 originally broadcast from a self-supporting tower atop its studios on Bull Street. The sale was approved on December 20, and was completed on January 2, 2019. In Georgia, the station was formerly carried in the town of. These staffers included news anchors Ed Carter and , who gained notoriety for her accomplishments as a reporter and anchor. It remained on most Augusta-area cable systems, including in Augusta itself, well into the new millennium. On August 25, 2005, Liberty agreed to merge with -based. He retired for good on September 1, 2018 after 55 years at the station.

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Charles Batson signed the station on the air, and remained the station's president and general manager until his retirement in 1983. This resulted in a higher-quality product than conventional wisdom would suggest for a market of Columbia's size. . . . .

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