#WINSTON SALEM NEWS STATION TV#

The proprietors of Piece Goods, twin brothers Dudley and John Simms, also appeared on air giving editorials that were strongly conservative in character.

#WINSTON SALEM NEWS STATION TV#

Piece Goods had stepped in when Good News TV Network ran out of cash to put the station on the air. Shortly before going on air, Good News TV Network had sold the construction permit for the station to a subsidiary of Piece Goods Stores, a chain of fabric stores in Winston-Salem. From a transmitter on the Wachovia Building in Winston-Salem and studios on its top floor, program testing for WGNN-TV began on September 22, 1979.

Delays in equipment delivery and installation pushed the station's start from 1978 back into 1979 the station also had to settle a payment dispute with an equipment installer. The station was originally proposed to operate on a non-commercial basis with Christian religious programs and some secular classic films, though it eventually decided to accept some commercial advertising. Good News TV had been formed after the local Calvary Baptist Church voted to set aside $139,000 for the construction of the proposed outlet one of the directors was Stuart Epperson, the founder of Salem Communications. In February 1976, Good News TV Network filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a new commercial TV station in Winston-Salem, which the commission granted in August 1977. Since then, Sinclair has implemented smaller-scale news programs for the station, first as part of the News Central service, then with cable news channel News 14 Carolina (later Spectrum News North Carolina) and since 2021 with local reporters and anchors at a Sinclair station in Texas.Īs an independent station and Fox affiliate WGNN-TV and WJTM-TV: Establishment Sinclair shuttered the local news department in January 2002. The station's local newscasts failed to make headway against the established stations in the Triad. It also picked up a secondary affiliation with UPN, which became channel 48's primary programming when the simulcast was split the next year. In 1995, as a result of regional ABC affiliate WGHP switching to Fox, channel 45 became an ABC affiliate under new WXLV call letters and began broadcasting local news programming. Act III combined the station's schedule and programming with Greensboro independent WGGT in 1991, creating a simulcast.

WNRW became the market's first Fox affiliate in 1986 TVX then sold it to Act III Broadcasting in 1986 in order to acquire a station in the adjacent Raleigh market. After a gunman killed the general sales manager in 1984, TVX renamed the station WNRW, incorporating his initials. It was sold to Television Corporation Stations-later renamed TVX Broadcast Group-in 1980 and changed its call sign to WJTM-TV, becoming the Triad's first general-entertainment independent station. Both stations share studios on Myer Lee Drive (along US 421) in Winston-Salem, while WXLV-TV's transmitter is located in Randleman (along I-73/ US 220).Ĭhannel 45 went on the air in 1979 as WGNN-TV, a Christian-oriented TV station. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Greensboro-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV (channel 48). Newell, Lars Larson, Brett Mcmillan, Monte Dutton, Jim Utter, Laura Lawson, Shawn Lee, Keith Larson, Mitch Kokai, Donna Martinez, Dennis Miller, J.r.WXLV-TV (channel 45) is a television station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Piedmont Triad region. Hosts: Tim Brando, Steve Czaban, Bob Berger, Mark Levin, Dave Ramsey, Cigar Dave, George Noory, Ian Punnett, George Knapp, Lloyd D.

Sporting News Radio Network, The Kim Komando Show, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, Mark Levin Show, The Dave Ramsey Show, The Cigar Dave Show, Best of Coast to Coast, The Lutheran Hour, Focus On The Family Weekend, Meet the Press, Music And The Spoken Word, The Lars Larson Show, Money Matters, The Verizon Pit Reporters, The Mutual Fund Show, The Wine Crush, First Presbyterian Church, Wealth Builders, The Gold Show, Carolina Journal, Day1 WSJS, For Your Information, PRN's Fast Talk, Real Estate Radio Show, Carolina Newsmakers, Centenary United Methodist Church, Wake Forest Baptist Church, Home Moravian Church, People In Politics, The Triad Live and Local, The Triad's First News, The WSJS Evening News, WSJS Early Morning News, WSJS Home Show, WSJS Sunday News Magazine, WSJS The Yard Sale WSJS 600 is a broadcast Radio station from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, providing News, Talk and Sports programs.

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