WNCT-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station

Television station

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 for Eastern North Carolina

Eastern North Carolina

Eastern North Carolina is the region encompassing the eastern tier of North Carolina. It is known geographically as the state's Coastal Plain region. Primary subregions of Eastern North Carolina include the Fayetteville Metropolitan Area, the Lower Cape Fear , the Sandhills, the Inner Banks and...

's Inner Banks

Inner Banks

The Inner Banks is a term used by some to describe the inland coastal region of eastern North Carolina, an area on the East Coast of the United States that is 22,227 square-miles by its broadest definition...

. The station is part of The CW Plus

The CW Plus

The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....

, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and/or over-the-air on a digital signal. It is a second digital subchannel

Digital subchannel

In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...

 of CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 affiliate WNCT-TV

WNCT-TV

WNCT-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Eastern North Carolina's Inner Banks licensed to Greenville. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter in Grifton along NC 118. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 6 as well as Time Warner...

 owned by Media General

Media General

Media General, Inc. is a media company based in the Southeastern United States. Its major properties include newspapers such as The Tampa Tribune, the Winston-Salem Journal, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, as well as numerous television stations, such as flagship station WFLA-TV.The company was...

. Over-the-air, WNCT-DT2 broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter in Grifton

Grifton, North Carolina

Grifton is a town in Lenoir and Pitt Counties, North Carolina, United States. The 2008 population was estimated to be 2,240. The town is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.- Geography :...

 along NC 118. Known on-air as Eastern North Carolina CW, this can also be seen on Suddenlink

Suddenlink Communications

Suddenlink Communications, formerly Cebridge Connections, is a top-10 cable broadband services provider in the United States with approximately 1.4 million subscribers. Suddenlink operates in 18 states in primarily medium-sized communities. With its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO,...

 channel 6, Charter

Charter Communications

Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...

 channel 17, and Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

 digital channel 111. WNCT-DT2's parent station has studios on South Evans Street in Greenville

Greenville, North Carolina

Greenville is the county seat of Pitt County and principal city of the Greenville, North Carolina metropolitan area. Greenville is the health, entertainment, and educational hub of North Carolina's Tidewater and Coastal Plain and in 2008 was listed as the Tenth Largest City in North Carolina...

. It only airs in standard definition over-the-air and on all cable providers. However, Time Warner

Time Warner

Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...

 Cable does offer a high definition feed of fellow CW affiliate WLFL

WLFL

WLFL is the CW-affiliated television station for North Carolina's Triangle licensed to Raleigh. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter located in Auburn, North Carolina. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 2 and in high definition...

 in Raleigh

Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...

 on digital channel 1130.

This second digital subchannel originally served as a non-audio feed of WNCT's regional weather radar

Weather radar

Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type . Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the...

 known as "Live VIPIR

VIPIR

Volumetric Imaging and Processing of Integrated Radar, known by the acronym VIPIR, is a type of post-processing program applied to traditional radar systems and is distributed by Baron Weather Solutions...

 9". On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN

UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

 announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined service would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS (the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 unit of Time Warner

Time Warner

Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...

. ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 affiliate WCTI-TV

WCTI-TV

WCTI-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Inner Banks area of Eastern North Carolina that is licensed to New Bern. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter in Trenton along NC 58...

 offered UPN on its third digital subchannel while The WB aired on cable-only

The WB 100+ Station Group

The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network...

 "WGWB

WGWB

WGWB was The WB television affiliate for Greenville, North Carolina. The call letters are fictional, as it is not a Federal Communications Commission-licensed broadcast station. Rather, it is part of The WB 100+ Station Group, a group of non-broadcast local cable television outlets for markets...

". On September 18, WNCT changed this second digital subchannel to become part of The CW through The CW Plus (a similar operation to The WB 100+).

Newscasts

Through a news share agreement, WNCT produced the market

Media market

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's original nightly prime time newscast at 10. This broadcast was seen on the area's Fox affiliate WFXI/WYDO

WFXI

WFXI is the Fox-affiliated television station for Eastern North Carolina's Inner Banks licensed to Morehead City. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter in unincorporated Davis, North Carolina along the South River's East Fork. The station can also be...

 (then owned by Piedmont Television

Piedmont Television

Piedmont Television was a broadcasting company in the United States that owned television stations in smaller markets. The company was based in Charlotte, North Carolina....

) for thirty minutes. The outsourcing arrangement was terminated in December 2007 after WCTI became a sister station to WFXI/WYDO through their management by the Bonten Media Group.

Initially in January 2008, WCTI began repeating its nightly 6 o'clock newscast at 10 on WFXI/WYDO. Eventually, a new nightly prime time broadcast produced by WCTI was added to the Fox affiliate on January 28. Meanwhile, WNCT moved its prime time show at 10 to this second digital subchannel. Now known as Eyewitness News

Eyewitness News

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 9 Nightside on The CW, it can currently be seen every night for a half-hour.

Like all CW Plus affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone

Eastern Time Zone

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, WNCT-DT2 offers the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz

The Daily Buzz

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on weekdays from 6 until 9. During weather forecast segments, the station features a live NOAA National Weather Service

National Weather Service

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 Doppler

Pulse-doppler radar

Pulse-Doppler is a 4D radar system capable of detecting both target 3D location as well as measuring radial velocity . It uses the Doppler effect to avoid overloading computers and operators as well as to reduce power consumption...

 weather radar

Weather radar

Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type . Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the...

 originating from the Local Forecast Office on Roberts Road in Newport

Newport, North Carolina

Newport is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,349 at the 2000 census.-History:Newport was officially chartered in 1866. Although the crossroads community on the Newport River was known by that name decades earlier, the area was also known as Bell's Corner...

. On-air, this is known as "Live VIPIR

VIPIR

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 9" and it is streamed live on WNCT's website. In addition to the main studios, it operates bureaus in Jacksonville

Jacksonville, North Carolina

Jacksonville, North Carolina, is a city in Onslow County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the population stood at 70,145, which makes Jacksonville the 14th largest city in North Carolina...

 (on Lejeune Boulevard) and New Bern

New Bern, North Carolina

New Bern is a city in Craven County, North Carolina with a population of 29,524 as of the 2010 census.. It is located at the confluence of the Trent and the Neuse rivers...

.

Anchors

• Amanda Goodman - weeknight news
• Jim Niedelman - weekend news and reporter
• David Sawyer - Chief Meteorologist seen weeknights
• Kweilyn Murphy - weekend meteorologist
• Brian Bailey - Sports Director
  Sports Director
  A sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...
  
  seen weeknights

Digital journalists

• Sasha Horne - New Bern Bureau Chief
• Alexander Freedman
• Jonathan Rodriguez
• Andrea Blanford
• Kristen Hunter

External links

• WNCT-DT2 "Eastern North Carolina CW"
• WNCT-TV "Eyewitness News 9"