WNGT-CD,
virtual channel
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34 (
UHF digital channel 23), is a
low-power,
Class A Decades
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affiliated television station
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licensed
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to both
Smithfield and
Selma, North Carolina
Selma is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States. In 2010, the population was 6,073, and as of 2018 the estimated population was 6,913. Selma is part of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area. The area has a populati ...
, United States and serving the
Triangle
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region (
Raleigh
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–
Durham Durham most commonly refers to:
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Chapel Hill Chapel Hill or Chapelhill may refer to:
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Fayetteville). Locally owned by
Capitol Broadcasting Company, it is a
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
to Capitol's
duopoly
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of
NBC
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affiliate and company
flagship
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WRAL-TV
WRAL-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Research Triangle area. It is the flagship station of the locally based Capitol Broadcasting Company, which h ...
(channel 5) and
Fox
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affiliate
WRAZ (channel 50), both licensed to Raleigh. The stations share studios at Capitol Broadcasting headquarters on Western Boulevard in Raleigh, while WNGT-CD's transmitter is located atop WRAL-TV's former analog tower, on TV Tower Road in
Auburn, North Carolina
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. Prior to 2021, the station transmitted from South Pollock Street (
US 301
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) in Selma, near the Selma Memorial Cemetery.
On September 11, 2020, Waters & Brock Communications reached a deal to sell then-WARZ-CD to Capitol Broadcasting for use as an
ATSC 3.0
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NextGen TV multiplex for its Raleigh television stations.
While WNGT-CD's signal is used to multiplex ATSC 3.0 transmissions, its original programming is now aired via a subchannel of WRAL-TV that displays as virtual channel 34.1.
On October 21, 2021, the station's call letters were changed to WNGT-CD.
Technical information
Subchannel
ATSC 3.0 lighthouse
WNGT-CD's ATSC 3.0 multiplex carries its main programming and those of its sister Capitol stations and
PBS
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member station WUNC-TV.
On November 20, 2020, then-WARZ-CD switched over to ATSC 3.0, with simulcasts from WRAL-TV and WRAZ. On December 10, WRAL-TV began the ATSC 1.0 simulcast of WARZ-CD. On March 22,
PBS North Carolina
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began simulcast of WUNC-TV.
References
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Television channels and stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in North Carolina
Low-power television stations in the United States
Capitol Broadcasting Company
ATSC 3.0 television stations
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