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Carolina Crossroads is a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) planned entertainment development near Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina located near the intersection of I-95 and US 158.The development was hoped to bring new jobs to the area which had been affected in recent years as textile mills closed and jobs moved out of the area.
This station was assigned call letters as WLGQ on August 5, 1988, which it held until switching to WYTT on January 17, 2003. It switched again, this time to current call sign WTRG, on January 10, 2005. [2] The WTRG call letters once belonged to 100.7 FM in the Raleigh–Durham area, whose city of license at the time was Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Roanoke Rapids is located in northern Halifax County bordered to the north by Northampton County, with the county line following the Roanoke River.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.0 square miles (25.9 km 2), of which 10.0 square miles (25.8 km 2) are land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.36%, are water.
Halifax County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,622. [2] Its county seat is Halifax. [3]Halifax County is part of the Roanoke Rapids, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC Combined Statistical Area.
The second and current NC 48 was established in 1934 as a renumbering of NC 482, which traversed between NC 43, in Rocky Mount, and US 158, in Littleton. [2] In 1952, NC 48 was rerouted at Brinkleyville northeasterly on new primary routing to Roanoke Rapids, then replaced NC 47 through Gaston and Pleasant Hill; its former alignment became parts of NC 561, Old NC 48 (SR 1312) and NC 4. [3]
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The Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids Combined Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in northeastern North Carolina. As of the 2010 census , the CSA had a population of 310,416, with an estimated population of 297,726 in 2018. [ 2 ]
Prior to September 25, 2008, UNC-TV formerly operated four digital channels: in addition to the main signal on the primary channel, the second digital subchannel of each station carried UNC-HD (which carried PBS and regional programming in high-definition), the third subchannel carried UNC-KD (which carried children's programs), the fourth ...