WFMY-TV
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HAAT | 568.8 m (1,866 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 35°52′13.3″N 79°50′24.1″W / 35.870361°N 79.840028°W |
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Website | www |
WFMY-TV (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Piedmont Triad region. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Phillips Avenue in Greensboro, and its transmitter is located in Randleman, North Carolina.
History
WFMY's facility was the site of the first live television broadcast in the state of North Carolina on August 18, 1949, at 6:10 p.m. and officially signed on the air on September 22, 1949, as the second television station in North Carolina, debuting just a few months after fellow CBS affiliate
WFMY-TV has been a primary CBS affiliate from its sign-on, but also initially carried secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC and DuMont. NBC programming moved to WSJS-TV (channel 12, now WXII-TV) when it signed on in September 1953. WFMY also shared the ABC affiliation with WSJS until October 1963 when WGHP (channel 8, now a Fox affiliate) signed on. WFMY lost the DuMont affiliation when that network ceased operations in 1956. By the late 1950s, the station had moved to its current studio facility on Phillips Avenue, and also built a new transmitter there. In 1980, it built its current tower in Randleman.
In 1965, the News Company was bought by what eventually became
In October 2012, Gannett entered a dispute against Dish Network regarding compensation fees and Dish's AutoHop commercial-skip feature on its Hopper digital video recorders. Gannett ordered that Dish discontinue AutoHop on the account that it is affecting advertising revenues for WFMY. Gannett threatened to pull all of its stations (such as WFMY) should the skirmish continue beyond October 7 and Dish and Gannett fail to reach an agreement.[5][6] The two parties eventually reached an agreement after extending the deadline for a few hours.[7]
On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. WFMY was retained by the latter company, named Tegna.[8]
During the analog television era, WFMY boasted one of the largest signal coverage areas in the
Although its digital signal operates on UHF, WFMY's secondary coverage area in digital is almost as large as that of its former analog signal.
Programming
WFMY's local programming, which includes the long-running news program The Good Morning Show with Lee Kinard and children's program The Old Rebel Show, preempted CBS' various attempts at
Since March 2013, WFMY has also carried Let's Make a Deal at 10 a.m., following CBS This Morning. Prior to then, the program aired on WFMY at its recommended 3 p.m. slot, where a double-run of The Andy Griffith Show relocated after the scheduling change. In September 2016, Andy Griffith was moved to 4 p.m., switching timeslots with The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
On December 2, 2019, WFMY instituted a number of changes to its daytime schedule, moving CBS This Morning to its recommended time of 7 a.m., followed by Ellen at 9 a.m. This meant dropping the last hour of The Good Morning Show, which had been airing from 4:30 to 8 a.m. Ellen was replaced at 3 p.m. by
On September 12, 2022, WFMY debuted a 9 a.m. version of The Good Morning Show, replacing Ellen after the show ended its run.
News operation
WFMY-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday, three hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays). On January 5, 2010, beginning with its noon newscast, WFMY began broadcasting its local newscasts in
On the evening of September 25, 1984, the station's
On November 13, 2011, beginning with its 11 p.m. newscast, WFMY began broadcasting its newscasts in high definition. The station also introduced a new format for its newscasts titled News 2.0.[13] On April 25, 2013, WFMY debuted a news/investigative program, 2 Wants To Know; it replaced a third daily airing of The Andy Griffith Show in that program's longtime 5:30 p.m. slot, a move which has angered some viewers, as indicated in stories in the Greensboro News & Record and the Winston-Salem Journal.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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2.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
WFMY HD | CBS |
2.2 | 480i | Crime | True Crime Network | |
2.3 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
2.4 | Quest | Quest | ||
2.5 | OPEN | The365
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2.6 | Crimes | Outlaw
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2.7 | QVC | QVC Over the Air | ||
2.8 | HSN | HSN |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WFMY-TV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the FCC-mandated
Out-of-market cable and DirecTV carriage
In recent years, WFMY has been carried on
During the 1970s and 1980s through CATV, WFMY was once carried in
References
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- ^ American Radio History [dead link]
- ^ "Gannett pays $155 million for two TV stations - UPI Archives".
- ^ "Top 20 group owners: Gillett in, Taft out" (PDF). Broadcasting. February 29, 1988. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
- ^ Loose, Ashley (October 5, 2012). "DISH customers may lose Gannett programming, including 12 News KPNX, over AutoHop feature". KNXV-TV. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- Denver Post. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ Warner, Melodie (October 8, 2012). "Dish, Gannett Reach New Deal". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
- ^ "Separation of Gannett into two public companies completed | TEGNA". Tegna. June 29, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
- ^ "New show means new program flow on WFMY News 2: Four 2 Five, along with Jeopardy II and other changes". WFMY-TV. December 2, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ "Downtown Greensboro "Flash Mob" Beating Investigated By Police – digtriad.com". Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Police: No "flash mob attacks" in Greensboro : News-Record.com : Greensboro & the Triad's most trusted source for local news and analysis". Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "ATL84FA297". February 18, 2005. Archived from the original on February 18, 2005.
- ^ WFMY Greensboro Debuting HD 'News 2.0', TVNewsCheck, November 10, 2011.
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- ^ "List of Digital Full-Power Stations" (PDF).
- ^ "SVTV Stations – The things you care that others won't". Archived from the original on May 2, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Cable Search". Retrieved August 13, 2023.