For almost 50 years, WBTW has been a powerful television voice in Eastern South and North Carolina. It's not at all unusual to meet folks in their thirties and forties who will tell you with a big smile.. "Why I grew up with WBTW, it has always been part of my family." The management of WBTW knows of no finer testimonial nor a more meaningful obligation. Being part of the lives of Carolinians, North and South, is a constant goal.
The 1992 and 1998 awards as Station of the Year by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association and our intra-company President's Award for Excellence are gratifying notes that we have not forgotten that goal.

The Morning News, a Media General newspaper, is published daily and Sunday in Florence, SC to serve the Pee Dee region.
The first edition of the newspaper, the Weekly News and Review, appeared on March 18, 1922. Its immediate predecessor was the Florence News and Review, and its name was later changed to the Morning News Review.
In February 1928 it purchased the Florence Daily Times and the name was changed to the Florence Morning News.
The Florence Morning News was purchased by Thomson Newspapers in December 1981 and has since been sold to Media General of Richmond, Va.

1905 - The Lake City News was founded around the turn of the century and, though a specific date of founding is elusive, the masthead of the Lake City News & Post has read “Serving the Lake City and surrounding communities since 1905” for at least the past 40 years.
1934 - copies of the Lake City News from this date are on file with the South Caroliniana Library on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
1968 - The Lake City Post was started by Chester Martin and Pandorama Publishing Co.
1969 - the News and Press in Darlington, itself 97-years-old that year, had purchased the then 65-year-old Lake City News. News and Press publisher, Morrell Thomas, said his company had signed an agreement with Lake City News publisher, Mrs. Arthur M. Parker.
1972 - The Darlington-owned newspaper became the Lake City News & Post after the News was purchased by its rival the Post. The General Manager of the newspaper at the time of the buy-out was P. Gregory Smith. The first issue of the new newspaper was published on May 1, 1972.
1999 - Thomson Newspapers, Inc., purchased the newspaper, which had changed hands several times in the ensuing years.
2000 - along with the Morning News, Marion Star & Mullins Enterprise and Weekly Observer in the Johnsonville and Hemingway area, the News & Post was sold to the Richmond, Va.,-based Media General, Inc.