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WITN-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Washington, North Carolina, United States, serving Eastern North Carolina as an affiliate of NBC and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Gray Television , the station has primary studio facilities on East Arlington Boulevard in Greenville , with an additional studio in New Bern .
The station was owned by William Riley "Bill" Roberson Jr. and operated along with sister station WITN (930 AM) as the Tar Heel Broadcasting System. Roberson also owned the local TV station, WITN-TV (channel 7) and numerous other local properties such as the Dr. Pepper bottling plant, and Washington Square Mall. Around 1984, Roberson retired ...
The calls stood for "We Radiate Real Friendship". In 1962, the call letters were changed to WITN, owing largely to the eyeWITNess news format adopted by owner Bill Roberson's television station, WITN-TV. Roberson had also signed on sister FM station WITN-FM at 93.3 MHz (today's WERO) on September 6, 1961.
Identified as TV-8 Eyewitness News from June 17, 1974, to 1986; has identified as Fox 8 News since 1995. Greenville / New Bern / Washington, N.C. WITN: NBC Used variant EyeWITNess News for several years; has identified as WITN News since 2007. WNCT: CBS Identified as Eyewitness News 9 from 1998 to 2012, now identifies as 9 On Your Side.
MyNetworkTV is an American television programming service made up of 11 owned-and-operated stations controlled by the Fox Television Stations division of Fox Corporation and 186 affiliates.
For instance, in 2015, the general manager of WITN-TV in Washington, North Carolina, noted that that station "steals" viewers in four counties in the Raleigh–Durham designated market area from WNCN because viewership habits to the eastern North Carolina station were established before WNCN was an NBC affiliate. [28]
The cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion – in which Gray shareholders would acquire preferred stock currently held by Raycom – made WECT a sister station to fellow NBC affiliate WITN-TV in Washington. WITN-TV and WECT had briefly been sister stations when Raycom was formed in 1997. However, Raycom was forced to sell WITN ...
Website. www.wnct.com. WNCT-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Greenville, North Carolina, United States, serving Eastern North Carolina as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on South Evans Street in Greenville, and its transmitter is located in Grifton Township along ...