WFMY-TV
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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) 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 located in Greensboro, North Carolina and also serves High Point and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States (also known as the Piedmont Triad region). The station is owned by Tegna. WFMY's studio facilities are located at 1615 Phillips Avenue (northeast of downtown) in Greensboro, also the station's transmitter site from the late 1950s until 1980. The transmitter is located in Randleman. The station is carried on cable channel 9 in most parts of the market.
The station first 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).
WFMY-TV has been a primary CBS affiliate from its sign-on, but also initially carried secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC and DuMont. NBC programming moved to WSJS-TV (channel 12, now WXII-TV) when it signed on in September 1953. WFMY also shared the ABC affiliation with WSJS until October 1963 when WGHP (channel 8, now a Fox affiliate) signed on. WFMY lost the DuMont affiliation when that network ceased operations in 1956. In 1965, the News Company was bought by what eventually became Landmark Communications. The station was acquired by Harte-Hanks Communications in 1976.
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