WSOC-TV owned the rights to a large amount of syndicated programming, but increased local news commitments left channel 9 without nearly enough time in its broadcast day to air it all. It placed much of this surplus programming on WAXN, giving channel 64 a much stronger schedule. One of these shows was "The Andy Griffith Show", which had aired on channel 9 for many years. From 2001 to 2012, WAXN had also been the Charlotte home of the "Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon", which had aired on WSOC-TV since 1974; WAXN's rights to the telethon ended with the 2012 edition, as the Muscular Dystrophy Association decided to move the telethon from syndication to ABC for the final two years of its existence (by then known as the "MDA Show of Strength"), effectively bringing the program back to WSOC locally.