WLFL-TV
 
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Raleigh/Durham/ Fayetteville, North Carolina United States |
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| City | Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Branding | CW 22 (general) ABC 11 Eyewitness News (WTVD-produced newscasts) |
| Slogan |
TV Now (general) Breaking News. Breaking Stories. (news) |
| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 22 () |
| Subchannels | 22.1 The CW 22.2 ASN |
| Affiliations | The CW (2006–present) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WLFL Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | December 18, 1981 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Light For Living (slogan used by original owner prior to sign-on) |
| Sister station(s) | WRDC, WMYA-TV, WMYV, WLOS, WXLV-TV |
| Former callsigns | WLFL-TV (1981–1993) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 22 (UHF, 1981–2009) Digital: 57 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1981–1986) Fox (1986–1998) The WB (1998–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 725 kW |
| Height | 610 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 73205 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°40′28″N 78°31′40″W / 35.67444°N 78.52778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | raleighcw.com |
WLFL, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 27), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States and serves North Carolina's Triangle region. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WRDC (channel 28). The two stations share studios on Highwoods Boulevard in Raleigh, and its transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina.
The analog UHF channel 22 allotment was in the planning stages as early as 1976 as a station with mostly Christian-oriented religious programs and some secular family shows. It was to have been operated by L.L. "Buddy" Leathers and his Carolina Christian Communications, a broadcasting company whose flagship was WGGS in Greenville, South Carolina. Carolina Christian had several construction permits in the Carolinas. The station's permit was bought out by Family Television in 1980 with the intention to sign-on in late September 1981. However, those plans were scuttled due to technical problems and bad weather.
It finally went on the air as WLFL-TV (standing for "Light For Living") at 2 p.m. on December 18, 1981, with the movie Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing as its inaugural program following a day of test patterns. It was the Triangle's first full-market independent station outlet. Another earlier station with the same format, WKFT-TV (channel 40, now WUVC), had signed on a few months before but did not have an adequate signal to most of the market at the time. WLFL was a typical UHF independent running cartoons, dramas, westerns, older sitcoms and older movies in addition to religious programming. While licensed to Raleigh, its studios were initially at 2410 Broad Street in Durham (the same building where WTVD originally began operations in 1954), with its master control facility located with the transmission and tower facility near Apex.
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