WUVC-TV

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WUVC-TV

Fayetteville / Raleigh / Durham / Greensboro, North Carolina
Channels	40 (UHF) analog, 38 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Univision
Owner	Univision
Founded	July 22, 1980
Call letters meaning	W Univision Carolina
Former callsigns	WKFT-TV (1981-2003)
Former affiliations	Independent (1981-2003)
Transmitter Power	5,000 kW Analog 500 kW Digital STA 1,000 kW Digital CP
Website	www.univision.com

WUVC-TV is a broadcast television station based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Broadcasting on UHF channel 40, WUVC is a Univision television network owned and operated station.

[edit] History

Channel 40 began operation on June 1, 1981 and was known as WKFT-TV -- even though the call letters were originally assigned to its original owners Fayetteville Television Incorporated on July 22, 1980. Fayetteville Television Inc. was A group of local businessmen organized by Mr. Robert Warren of the Eastover community near Fayetteville. Mr. Warren was the former Fayetteville reporter for WRAL TV 5 in Raleigh. Mr. Warren was general manager of WKFT then after the first month was let go. Mr. Warren organized the group of investors and it was his idea for the station but was never an investor and was let go only after a month. WKFT offered a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, westerns, religious shows, dramas, and classic sitcoms. A few years after it was on the air WKFT was sold to SJL broadcasting and they formed Central Carolina Television Inc. to manage the station. SJL then invested about 5 million dollars to built an 1800 ft tower near Broadway near the Harnett and Lee County line. Broadcasting at 5 million watts. That replaced the 750 ft. broadcasting at 1.542 million watts tower on Cliffdale Rd. in what was then in Cumberland County now in the city of Fayetteville. At one point, the station even had a 10PM newscast, which focused more on Fayetteville area news even after its signal had been expanded in August of 1986 to cover the entire Triangle television market. Even though it was essentially a low budget operation, it still fell on hard times financially, despite a brief rebranding as "CounterForce 40" in 1986 under new ownership by SJL Broadcasting.

When WRAL-TV's transmission tower was destroyed in a severe ice storm in December 1989, forcing it off the air, WKFT picked up WRAL-TV's entire broadcast schedule until October 1990, when WRAL's new tower was erected.

In the fall of 1991, following purchase by Delta Broadcasting, WKFT resumed a general entertainment format with stronger programming, offering a blend of sitcoms, cartoons, movies, talk shows, and reality shows. It lost bids for the UPN and WB affiliations, so it remained an independent station.

In 1994 the station was sold to Allied Communications, which subsequently sold it to Bahakel in 1996. Still, as stronger programming was not as readily available, WKFT moved toward more paid programming. On March 14, 2002 the station's transmission tower was struck by a small aircraft. Although the station's broadcasts continued on local cable networks, the station remained off the air for a few months.

The station was purchased by Univision in April 2003. It switched its call-sign and affiliation on June 1 of that year, becoming the Research Triangle area's first Spanish-language television channel. Its programming inventory was picked up by WLFL-TV and WRDC-TV.

WUVC's signal can also be picked up in Greensboro.

[edit] See also

WTNC-LP

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Broadcast television in the Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville market (Nielsen DMA #29)
WUNC 4 / WUNU 31 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WRAL 5 (CBS) - WTVD 11 (ABC, The AccuWeather Channel on DT3) - WUBX-CA 13/WUBX-LD 31 (Silent?) - WBXU-CA 13 (Silent?) - WNCN 17 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WLFL 22 (The CW) - W24CP 24 (3ABN) - WTNC 26 (TFU) - WRDC 28 (MNTV) - WRAY 30 (Ind) - WACN-LP 34 (DS) - WUVC 40 (UNI) - WHFL-LP 43 (Worship) - WZGS 44 (Telemundo) - W45CN 45 / W45CO 45 / W63CW 63 / W64CN 64 (TBN) - WRPX 47 / WFPX 62 (ION) - WRAZ 50 (Fox) - WWIW-LP 66 (DS) - W67CD 67 (A1) - W68BK 68 (Educational)
Local cable television channels
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Out-of-market broadcast television available on cable in some parts of the market
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Broadcast television in the Greensboro / Winston-Salem / High Point (Piedmont Triad) market (Nielsen DMA #47)

WFMY 2 (CBS, The AccuWeather Channel on DT2) - WGHP 8 (Fox) - WXII 12 (NBC) - WGPX 16 (ION) - WCWG 20 (The CW) - WUNL 26 (PBS / UNC) - WGSR 39 (Ind) - WUVC 40 (UNI) - WXLV 45 (ABC) - WMYV 48 (MNTV) - WLXI 61 (TCT / TBN)
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