WXII-TV
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WXII-TV, channel 12(Analog)/31(Digital), is the NBC television station licensed for the Greensboro–High Point–Winston-Salem, North Carolina designated market area. It is licensed to Winston-Salem and is currently owned by Hearst-Argyle Television, a unit of the Hearst Corporation. Its transmitter is located in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina.
History
The station began operation in 1953 as WSJS-TV, owned by Piedmont Publishing, publishers of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel along with WSJS radio, and has always been affiliated with NBC. ABC was shared with WFMY-TV until WGHP signed on in 1963.When Piedmont Publishing was sold to Media General in 1968, Gordon Gray, the longtime publisher of both papers, held onto WSJS-AM-FM-TV as Triangle Broadcasting. However, in 1972, the FCC ruled that in all but a few grandfathered cases, one person could not own a radio station and a television station. Gray was thus forced to sell WSJS-TV to Multimedia, Inc., who renamed the station WXII-TV.
Pulitzer acquired the station in a swap deal in 1983. When Pulitzer bowed out of broadcasting in 1997, Hearst bought the entire group, including WXII.
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