When WSPA-TV (channel 7) signed-on from Spartanburg in April 1956 and took the CBS affiliation, WAIM-TV was left exclusively with ABC, keeping the affiliation even though WLOS had become the market's ABC affiliate of record two years earlier.
In the fall of 1979, WAXA began operating its signal from a more powerful transmitter in Fountain Inn, south of Greenville, that more than doubled its coverage area.