11 Facts About WNCN

WNCN is a television station licensed to Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, serving the Research Triangle area as an affiliate of CBS.

WNCN became the new CBS affiliate for the Triangle market on February 29,2016, switching with longtime CBS affiliate WRAL-TV, which had announced it would become the new NBC affiliate for the region.

WNCN became the full-time NBC affiliate in the Raleigh–Durham market on September 10,1995—a month earlier than planned, thanks to an agreement between WRDC and WNCN.

In 2000, WNCN relocated its transmitter facilities from the Clayton tower to a nearly 2,000-foot perch on an arm of Capitol Broadcasting Company's new digital candelabra tower 8 miles closer to Raleigh, near Auburn.

WNCN signed on its digital signal on UHF channel 55 at the same time.

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For instance, in 2015, the general manager of WITN-TV in Washington, North Carolina, noted that that station "steals" viewers in four counties in the Raleigh–Durham designated market area from WNCN because viewership habits to the eastern North Carolina station were established before WNCN was an NBC affiliate.

WNCN became the fourth station in the Triangle to affiliate with CBS.

WNCN became part of Nexstar upon the sale's consummation on January 17,2017.

While, in the lead-up to the switch, WNCN emphasized the strong ratings performance of CBS programming and prime time shows, as well as the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, ratings for CBS programming in the Triangle dropped significantly with the switch to WNCN on February 29,2016.

At 11 p m, when WRAL, WTVD, and WNCN all competed head-to-head, channel 17 drew a fraction of the viewers of the other two stations.

When WNCN became a CBS affiliate, channel 17's newscasts were rebranded North Carolina News.