After WRAL took the ABC affiliation full-time in 1962, WTVD was forced to shoehorn CBS and NBC onto its schedule. When WNAO-TV signed off in 1959 due to financial difficulties, channel 11 began sharing ABC programming with WRAL-TV. CBS then dropped its affiliation with underperforming WNAO-TV and gave it to WTVD. WRAL-TV (channel 5) signed on in 1956 and took over as the Triangle's NBC affiliate. That same year, the station first began broadcasting in color, although it would be until 1966 before the same was true for local programming. Around 1958, WTVD built a convert|1500|ft|m|sing=on tower at its present transmitter site in Garner to better serve the market. On May 22, 1957, Durham Broadcasting Enterprises merged with Albany, New York-based Hudson Valley Broadcasting Company, owners of WCDA-TV (now WTEN) to form Capital Cities Television Corporation (predcessor of Capital Cities Communications).
Channel 11 is the Triangle's oldest surviving television station, having signed on a few months after CBS affiliate WNAO-TV (channel 28). Their initial studios were located in a former tuberculosis sanitorium at 2410 Broad Street, with a transmitter located atop Signal Hill in northern Durham County. It was originally a primary NBC affiliate, with a secondary ABC affiliation. Eight months later, on September 2, 1954, WTVD began broadcasting with a black-and-white film of the Star Spangled Banner. In December 1953, the two sides agreed to join forces and operate the station under the joint banner Durham Broadcasting Enterprises.
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In 1952, two rival companies each applied for a license to build a television station in Durham on the city's newly allotted VHF channel 11 - Herald-Sun Newspapers (publishers of the Durham Morning Herald and the Durham Sun as well as the owners of radio station WDNC) and Floyd Fletcher and Harmon Duncan, the then-owners of WTIK radio. The station's transmitter is located near Auburn, North Carolina. WTVD's main studios, offices and newsroom are located in downtown Durham, along with additional studio facilities in both Raleigh and Fayetteville. The station serves the areas of Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, and Fayetteville, known as the Triangle. Homepage = [ WTVD, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated station of the Walt Disney Company-owned ABC television network, licensed to Durham, North Carolina. Breaking Stories.ġ1.2: First Alert Doppler and Eyewitness News UpdateĪffiliations = ABC (secondary, 1954-1962 sole affiliate 1985-present)
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