WCOS-TV was a television station broadcasting on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 25 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States.
It operated from 1953 until 1956, when it shut down and sold its assets to competitor WNOK-TV (channel 67) amid a difficult economic environment for UHF television stations.
[2] Broadcasting from channel 25 began on May 1, 1953; the television station's studios, in a Quonset hut, and transmitter were located off Two Notch Road.
[1] In the days before the All-Channel Receiver Act, the presence of a VHF station in town, even though channel 25 was not Columbia's only UHF outlet, hurt it economically.
[10] A local group, First Carolina Corporation, bought the Shakespeare Road facilities and used them to launch a new channel 25 in 1961 under the call letters WCCA-TV.