WNCN
CBS affiliate in Goldsboro, North Carolina / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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WNCN (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, serving the Research Triangle area as an affiliate of CBS. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Front Street in north Raleigh, and its transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina.
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| City | Goldsboro, North Carolina |
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| Branding | CBS 17 |
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First air date | April 11, 1988 (36 years ago) (1988-04-11) |
Former call signs | WYED (1988–1994) |
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Call sign meaning | "North Carolina's News"[1] |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 50782 |
| ERP | 29 kW |
| HAAT | 624.1 m (2,048 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°40′29″N 78°31′39″W |
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| Website | www |
Built in 1988 as a second-tier independent station operating from studios in Clayton, North Carolina, under the call sign WYED, channel 17 was purchased by Outlet Communications in 1994 and replaced the anemic WRDC (channel 28) as the market's NBC affiliate in 1995, which included the establishment of a local newsroom and the adoption of the present WNCN call letters. NBC owned the station for more than a decade before spinning it off to Media General in 2006. WNCN became the new CBS affiliate for the Triangle market on February 29, 2016, switching with longtime CBS affiliate WRAL-TV, which had announced it would become the new NBC affiliate for the region.