WNCN
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Goldsboro/Raleigh/Durham/ Fayetteville, North Carolina United States |
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| City | Goldsboro, North Carolina |
| Branding | CBS North Carolina (general) North Carolina News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | North Carolina News Now |
| Channels |
Digital: 17 (UHF) Virtual: 17 () |
| Subchannels | 17.1 CBS 17.2 Antenna TV 17.3 Justice Network |
| Affiliations | CBS (2016–present) |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Media General Communuications Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | April 11, 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | a portmanteau of *North Carolina's News |
| Former callsigns | WYED (1988–1994) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 17 (UHF, 1988–2009) Digital: 55 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1988–1995) The WB (1995) NBC (1995–2016) |
| Transmitter power | 291 kW |
| Height | 611 m |
| Facility ID | 50782 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°40′29″N 78°31′40″W / 35.67472°N 78.52778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wncn |
WNCN, channel 17, is a CBS-affiliated television station that is licensed to Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, and serves North Carolina's Triangle region. The station's studios are located on Front Street in North Raleigh, and its transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina. The station is carried on cable channel 6 in Raleigh; cable channel 2 in Durham and Chapel Hill; channel 10 in Wilson, Fayetteville and Southern Pines; channel 13 in Goldsboro; channel 9 in Carrboro; and cable channel 7 in most other places, including Cary. In recent years, WNCN has been carried on cable in multiple areas within the Greensboro and Greenville markets. The station is currently owned by Nexstar Media Group.
On January 15, 2016, CBS and WNCN announced that WNCN would become the new CBS affiliate for the Triangle market, effective February 29, 2016--ending a 20-year affiliation with NBC. The same day, longtime CBS affiliate WRAL-TV announced it would become the new NBC affiliate for the region.
The station first signed on the air on April 11, 1988 as WYED-TV, a small station that primarily carried programming from the Home Shopping Network, along with some ministry and sportsman shows that aired on weekends. WYED was the first (and only) television station owned by the Beasley Broadcasting Group, run by George Beasley, who got his start in 1961 by signing on radio station WPYB (1130 AM) in nearby Benson. Channel 17's original studios were located at 622 South Barbour Street in Clayton, with a 1,550-foot (470 m) transmitter tower located nearby, broadcasting with 2.6 million watts of power. The station had limited cable carriage, mainly on smaller providers outside the core counties in the metropolitan area. In 1992, Cablevision (whose Triangle area system is now operated by Charter Communications) added WYED to its Durham and Raleigh lineups; the station gradually shifted towards a more general entertainment independent format and added children's programming (such as Super Mario Bros. Super Show!) and syndicated talk shows. While the station could be seen clearly in Raleigh and Durham, its signal could not be seen as clearly in the far western and northern reaches of the Triangle.
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