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WRAL-TV began broadcasting on December 15, 1956. Among the first programs aired was the movie Miracle on 34th Street.A. J. Fletcher's Capitol Broadcasting Company, which first licensed WRAL Radio (AM 1240, now WPJL) in 1938, won the TV license in an upset over the much larger Durham Life Insurance Company, then-owners of radio station WPTF.
WNCN became the full-time NBC affiliate in the Raleigh–Durham market on September 10, 1995—a month earlier than planned, thanks to an agreement between WRDC and WNCN. [22] Ahead of the NBC move, channel 17 began producing local news on September 4, [23] and new station WRAZ (channel 50) signed on with The WB. [24]
PBS on 27.2, PBS Kids on 27.3, The North Carolina Channel on 27.4 Asheville: 33 20 WUNF-TV: PBS: satellite of WUNC-TV ch. 4 Chapel Hill PBS Kids on 33.2, The Explorer Channel on 33.3, The North Carolina Channel on 33.4 62 11 WYCW: CW: Rewind TV on 62.3 Charlotte metropolitan area: Charlotte: 3 23 WBTV: CBS: Bounce TV on 3.2, Circle on 3.3, Grit ...
The sale marks NBCUniversal's re-entry into the Raleigh–Durham market, as they owned WNCN (channel 17) from 1996 to 2006 (it is now a CBS affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group). [6] The sale was completed on July 20, 2018. [7] NBCUniversal changed the station's call letters to WRTD-CD [8] on July 25, 2018; [5] the station also rejoined ...
WNGT-CD is sister to NBC affiliate and company flagship WRAL-TV (channel 5) and Fox affiliate WRAZ (channel 50), both licensed to Raleigh. The stations share studios at Capitol Broadcasting headquarters on Western Boulevard in Raleigh; WNGT-CD's transmitter is located atop WRAL-TV's former analog tower, on TV Tower Road in Auburn, North Carolina.
Prior to the launch of the channel, then-CBS affiliate WRAL-TV (channel 5; currently an NBC affiliate) of Raleigh, launched the WRAL NewsChannel, a local news channel that was launched in July 2001 on Time Warner Cable's digital tier (the channel was also transmitted at the time over WRAL's second digital subchannel, now affiliated by Cozi TV).
Channel 28 in Raleigh was initially occupied by WNAO-TV, the first television station in the Raleigh–Durham market and North Carolina's first UHF station.Owned by the Sir Walter Television Company, WNAO-TV broadcast from July 12, 1953, to December 31, 1957, primarily as a CBS affiliate with secondary affiliations with other networks.
WRAZ (channel 50), branded Fox 50, is a television station licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Research Triangle area. It is locally owned by the Capitol Broadcasting Company alongside NBC affiliate WRAL-TV (channel 5) and WNGT-CD (channel 34), which airs local news programming.