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Greensboro/High Point/ Winston-Salem, North Carolina United States |
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| City | Greensboro, North Carolina |
| Branding | WFMY News 2 |
| Slogan | The News That Matters Most |
| Channels |
Digital: 51 (UHF) (to move to 35 (UHF)) Virtual: 2 () |
| Subchannels | 2.1 CBS 2.2 Justice Network 2.3 WeatherNation TV |
| Owner |
Tegna Media (WFMY Television, LLC) |
| First air date | September 22, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | Began as the television sister of FM station WFMY (now WQMG-FM) |
| Sister station(s) | WCNC-TV, WLTX |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 2 (VHF, 1949–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
All secondary: ABC (1949–1963) NBC (1949–1953) DuMont (1949–1956) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 568.8 m (1,866 ft) |
| Facility ID | 72064 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°52′13.3″N 79°50′24.1″W / 35.870361°N 79.840028°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wfmynews2.com |
WFMY-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 51), is a CBS-affiliated television station serving the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina in the United States, including Winston-Salem, High Point and city of license Greensboro. The station is owned by Tegna Media. WFMY's studio facilities are located on Phillips Avenue in Greensboro (also the station's transmitter site from the late 1950s until 1980; the transmitter is presently located in Randleman). The station is carried on cable channel 9 in most parts of the market.
WFMY's facility was the site of the first live television broadcast in the state of North Carolina on August 18, 1949 at 6:10 pm and officially signed on the air on September 22, 1949 as the second television station in North Carolina, debuting just a few months after fellow CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte. It was originally owned by the Greensboro News Company, publishers of the Greensboro Daily News and Daily Record (now merged as the Greensboro News & Record). The News Company had put WFMY-FM on the air in 1947, but it shut the radio station down in the early part of the 1950s, eventually selling the license in 1955 to another party. The new owner brought it back on the air as WQMG-FM (97.1).
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