Greenville TV Stations

These are my primary TV stations: the ones that serve the Greenville - Spartanburg - Asheville - Anderson Designated Marketing Area (DMA), as designated by Nielsen Media Research (the TV ratings people). This DMA basically covers the piedmont area of northwest South Carolina (the "upstate") and the mountains of western North Carolina. My home city of Clinton lies about ten miles from the southeastern edge of this DMA.

The transmitters of the major network stations are scattered north of Greenville, in the North Carolina mountains, 53 to 82 miles from Clinton. Because of their elevation, I have line of sight to them despite their distance, and can get very good to excellent reception with a rooftop antenna system. The most extreme examples are WLOS (ABC) and WUNF (PBS, UNC-TV) whose transmitters are on Mount Pisgah, near the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville NC, at an elevation of about 5800 feet above sea level. I have good reception for WLOS and fairly good reception for WUNF, even though they're 82 miles away.