WNCT-TV

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WNCT-TV
Greenville, North Carolina
Branding	Eyewitness News 9
Slogan	On Your Side
Channels	9 (VHF) analog, 10 (VHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS The CW (on DT2)
Owner	Media General
Founded	1953
Call letters meaning	We're North Carolina Television
Former affiliations	part-time ABC affiliate until WNBE in New Bern signed on in 1963 DuMont (1953-1956)[1]
Website	wnct.com

WNCT-TV, channel 9, is the CBS affiliate in Greenville, North Carolina, serving New Bern, Washington, and the rest of east central North Carolina. The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 9, and its digital signal on VHF channel 10. Its transmitter is located in Grifton, North Carolina.

Contents 1 History 2 The CW 3 Newscasts 3.1 Weekdays 3.2 Weekends 4 External links

[edit] History

WNCT signed on the air on December 22, 1953, making it the first television station in eastern North Carolina. It was a part-time ABC affiliate until WNBE-TV, now WCTI, signed on from New Bern in 1963. [2] The station also carried programming from the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.[3]

Until 1997, WNCT was the flagship station of Roy H. Park Communications Inc. CBS programming was seen in the Wilmington area on WNCT-TV, WFMY-TV, WRAL-TV and WBTW-TV until low-powered WILM-LP in Wilmington affiliated with CBS in 2000. WNCT-TV and those other stations still serve some parts of the Wilmington market that don't get WILM-LP's signal over the air or on cable.

[edit] The CW

In September of 2006, WNCT's DT2 digital subchannel began serving as the area's affiliate for The CW. The CW subchannel is known as "Eastern North Carolina's CW". WNCT DT2 offers The Daily Buzz newscast weekday mornings from 6 to 9 AM.

[edit] Newscasts

WNCT's newscasts are branded under the popular Eyewitness News label. The station delays the weekday broadcast of The Early Show until 8 AM and airs an extra hour of local news instead. The station's radar is called "Live VIPIR 9".

[edit] Weekdays

• Eyewitness News 9 Morning Edition I (5:30-6 AM)
• Eyewitness News 9 Morning Edition II (6-7 AM)
• Eyewitness News 9 Morning Edition at 7 (7-8 AM)
• Eyewitness News 9 at Noon (12-12:30 PM)
• Eyewitness News 9 at 6 (6-6:30 PM)
• Eyewitness News 9 Nightside (11-11:35 PM)

[edit] Weekends

• Eyewitness News 9 Weekend Edition (6-6:30 PM)
• Eyewitness News 9 Nightside (11-11:35 PM)

(no morning news on weekends)

[edit] External links

• WNCT Website
• WNCT DT2 "Eastern Carolina's CW" Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNCT

Broadcast television in the Greenville/New Bern/Washington market  (Nielsen DMA #107)
WITN 7 (NBC) - WFXI 8 / WYDO 14 (Fox) - WNCT 9 (CBS) (The CW on DT2) - WCTI 12 (ABC) (Ind on DT2) - WUNM 19 / WUNK 25 (PBS/UNC-TV) - W22CJ 22 / W60CV 60 (TBN) - WPXU 35 / WEPX 38 (i/MNTV)
Out-of-market broadcast television available on cable in some parts of the market
WSKY 4 (IND, Manteo, NC/Hampton Roads, VA) - WRAL 5 (CBS, Raleigh) - WECT 6 (NBC, Wilmington) - WTVD 11 (ABC, Durham) - WNCN 17 (NBC, Goldsboro)

CBS Network Affiliates in the state of North Carolina
WFMY 2 (Greensboro) - WBTV 3 (Charlotte) - WRAL 5 (Raleigh) - WNCT 9 (Greenville) - WILM-LP 10 (Wilmington)
See also: ABC, Fox, NBC, PBS, CW, MNTV and Other stations in North Carolina