WECT
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WECT is the NBC affiliate in Wilmington, North Carolina. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 6, and its digital signal on UHF channel 44.
The station's transmitter is located near Elizabethtown. It has a powerful signal that reaches much of southeastern North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina.
WECT also serves as the NBC affiliate for the eastern portion of the [[Template:Myrtle Beach/Florence TV|Florence/Myrtle Beach market]], since that area doesn't have an NBC affiliate. WECT is also carried on cable providers in Fayetteville, NC and Jacksonville, NC, even though their respective markets do have their own NBC affiliates.
History
WECT was the first television station in Wilmington, and since then it has remained the #1 station in the region. It first signed on the air on April 9, 1954, preceding rival WWAY by more than 10 years.
From the station's start until 1958, the station was known as WMFD-TV and was co-owned with WMFD-AM-FM. WMFD-TV are currently the call letters of a television station in Mansfield, Ohio.
Michael Cogdill began his news anchoring career on WECT around the mid 1980s two weeks after he graduated at UNC of Ashville. In 1989 he left WECT to work as a weekend anchor at WYFF-TV in Greenville, SC. Today, he still works at WYFF-TV as a 5:00pm, 6:00pm, and 11:00pm weekday news anchor.
Since September 22, 2003, WECT has produced a 10 o'clock news program for WSFX-TV. It is currently the only 10 o'clock news program in the market.
WECT announcer/newsanchor Ken Murphy retired in December 2004 after 40 years at the station. He was replaced by Jim Hanchett, who was once a national NBC correspondent.
Programs
News
- Carolina in the Morning Early Edition - Weekdays 5am-6am
- Carolina in the Morning - Weekdays 6am-7am
- News 6 Midday - Weekdays 12pm-12:30pm
- News 6 First News - Weekdays 5pm-6pm
- News 6 at 6 - Weeknights 6pm-6:30pm
- News 6 Nightcast - All nights 11pm-11:35pm
- News 6 at 6 Weekend Edition - Saturday and Sunday nights 6pm-6:30pm
- Fox 26 News at 10 - All nights 10pm-10:30pm on sister station WSFX-TV
Syndicated programs
- Martha - Weekdays 10am-11am
- Ellen - Weekdays 11am-12pm
- Inside Edition - Weekdays 12:30pm-1pm
- Dr. Phil - Weekdays 3pm-4pm
- Oprah - Weekdays 4pm-5pm
- Wheel of Fortune - Weeknights and Saturday nights 7pm-7:30pm
- Jeopardy! - Weeknights 7:30pm-8pm
- Extra - Weeknights 2:05am-2:35am and Sunday nights 1:30am-2:30am
- Jack Van Impe Presents - Sunday nights 11:30pm-12am
NBC programs
WECT usually airs the entire NBC schedule, except it doesn't air NBC's late night repeats of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, instead airing infomercials during those hours.The station carries NBC Weather Plus on its digital subchannel 6.2.
Logos
See also
WECT TV6 TowerExternal links
| Broadcast television in the Wilmington market [(Nielsen DMA #139)] | ||
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WWAY 3 (ABC) -
WECT 6 (NBC) -
WILM-LP 10 (CBS/UPN) -
WSFX 26 (Fox) (The Tube on DT2) -
WUNJ 39 (PBS/UNC-TV) -
WMYW-LP 47 (My Network TV) Starting 9/06 -
W51CW 51 (TBN)
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| WBW 29 (The WB/The CW) | ||
| See also: Broadcast television in the [[Template:Raleigh-Durham TV|Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville]], [[Template:Greenville/New Bern/Washington TV|Greenville/New Bern/Washington]], and [[Template:Myrtle Beach/Florence TV|Florence/Myrtle Beach]] markets |
| '''NBC Network Affiliates in the state of North Carolina | |
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| WECT 6 ([[Template:Wilmington TV|Wilmington]]) - WITN 7 ([[Template:Greenville/New Bern/Washington TV|Washington]]) - WXII 12 ([[Template:Piedmont Triad TV|Winston-Salem]]) - WNCN 17 ([[Template:Raleigh-Durham TV|Goldsboro / Raleigh]]) - WCNC 36 ([[Template:Charlotte TV|Charlotte]]) | |
| '''See also: [[Template:ABC North Carolina|ABC]], [[Template:CBS North Carolina|CBS]], [[Template:Fox North Carolina|Fox]], [[Template:PBS North Carolina|PBS]], [[Template:UPN North Carolina|UPN]], [[Template:WB North Carolina|WB]] and [[Template:Other North Carolina Stations|Other]] stations in North Carolina | |
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ABC Network Affiliates: KAIT | KLTV | KTRE | KTVO1 | WLOX | WTVM
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NBC Network Affiliates: KCBD | KHNL/KHBC/KOGG | KPLC | WAFF | WALB | WAVE | WDAM | WECT | WFIE | WIS | WLBT | WLUC1 | WMC | WNWO1 | WPBN/WTOM1 | WSFA | WSTM1
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UPN Network Affiliates: KXTU12 | WBXH3 | WQTV/WQWQ2 | WSTQ12 | WUAB3
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1Stations to be sold to Barrington Broadcasting. The FCC has approved the sale of these stations; the sale is now awaiting finalization. |
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2Stations confirmed to affiliate with The CW starting September 18, 2006.
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3Stations confirmed to affiliate with My Network TV starting September 5, 2006.
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