WTNC-LD
Durham, North Carolina United States | |
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Branding | UniMás Raleigh |
Channels |
Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 26 (PSIP) |
Affiliations | UniMás |
Owner | Univision |
Founded | 1997 |
Call letters' meaning | W Telefutura North Carolina |
Former callsigns | WIWW-LP (1997-2003) |
Transmitter power | 15 kW |
Facility ID | 70112 |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°03′33″N 78°57′11″W / 36.05917°N 78.95306°W |
WTNC-LD is a low-powered television station in the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina television market. Licensed to Durham, WTNC-LP is affiliated with the Spanish-language UniMás network. Owned by Univision and operated alongside WUVC-DT, it broadcasts on UHF channel 26. In addition to its low-powered signal WTNC-LP can be seen on Time Warner channel 17 in Raleigh/Fayetteville and channel 20 in Durham/Chapel Hill. WTNC-LP is also now carried on WUVC digital subchannel 40.2.
History
Originally licensed to be low power W59CR, the station signed on in late 1997 as WIWW-LP from a tower near the corner of NC 98 and US 70 By-Pass in East Durham. Broadcasting then on channel 59, the station rebroadcast WACN-LP 34 from Apex, a Christian TV station. When WUNC-TV needed UHF channel 59 for digital, WIWW vacated the channel for UHF 26 on the WNCU tower off Rose of Sharon Road in NW Durham. It was home shopping for a while, then dark, then Telefutura (now UniMás). In 2007, WTNC began simulcasting as a digital subchannel of sister-station WUVC-TV in Fayetteville and other southern regions of the viewing area. In 2010 WTNC switched to digital broadcasting.