WRAY-TV
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Wilson/Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina United States |
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| Channels |
Digital: 42 (UHF) Virtual: 30 () |
| Affiliations | TCT (2010–present) |
| Owner |
Tri-State Christian Television (Radiant Life Ministries) |
| First air date | August 7, 1995 |
| Call letters' meaning | The "RA" in WRAY stands for "Raleigh" |
| Sister station(s) | WLXI |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 30 (UHF, 1995-2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1995–1997, 2006–2010) Global Shopping Network (1997–1998) Shop at Home (1998–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 873 kW |
| Height | 539 m |
| Facility ID | 10133 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°49′53″N 78°8′50″W / 35.83139°N 78.14722°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | tct.tv |
WRAY-TV channel 42 (virtual channel 30) is a full-power television station licensed to Wilson, North Carolina and serves the entire Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville, North Carolina metropolitan area. The station is owned and operated by Tri-State Christian Television, and runs religious programming 24 hours a day on three broadcast channels. Programming includes local interview/music programs, the Ask the Pastor program,and local public affairs programs from its studios in Wilson, NC. WRAY TV also airs Christian ministry programs from the Raleigh/Durham DMA.
The station was given the call letters WEOU on February 18, 1992. However, the station was granted a license on April 14, 1995. It signed on August 7 as WRAY-TV, and was initially a semi-satellite of WFAY (channel 62; now WFPX-TV), at that time Fayetteville's Fox affiliate; however, the station operated as an independent station, as its signal overlapped with WLFL, at that time Raleigh's Fox affiliate. WRAY's programming changed more towards home shopping upon its sale to Ramcast Corporation in 1997; Ramcast quickly merged with the Global Shopping Network to become Global Broadcasting Systems, Inc. However, Global Broadcasting Systems soon ran into financial trouble, and filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 26, 1997. Its assets, including WRAY, were sold to the rival Shop at Home Network in 1998.
On May 16, 2006, parent company The E.W. Scripps Company announced that Shop at Home would be suspending operations, effective June 22, 2006. However, the network temporarily ceased operations on June 21, and WRAY switched to Jewelry Television (and, on June 23, a mixture of both networks), which remained until Scripps found a buyer for its stations.
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