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WXII-TV

WXII-TV
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Winston-Salem/Greensboro/
High Point, North Carolina
United States
City Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Branding WXII 12 (general)
WXII 12 News (newscasts)
Slogan The Triad's #1 News
Channels Digital: 31 (UHF)
Virtual: 12 ()
Subchannels 12.1 NBC
12.2 MeTV
Owner Hearst Television
(WXII Hearst Television, Inc.)
First air date September 30, 1953
Call letters' meaning XII = Roman numeral 12
Former callsigns WSJS-TV (1953–1972)
WXII (1972–1982)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
12 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Former affiliations Secondary:
ABC (1953–1963)
DT2:
This TV (2009–2012)
Transmitter power 815 kW
Height 572 m
Facility ID 53921
Transmitter coordinates 36°22′30.5″N 80°22′25.4″W / 36.375139°N 80.373722°W / 36.375139; -80.373722
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.wxii12.com

WXII-TV, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 31), is an NBCaffiliated television station serving Greensboro, High Point and its city of license Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation. WXII maintains studio facilities located on Coliseum Drive in Winston-Salem, and its transmitter is located on Sauratown Mountain in Stokes County. The station is carried on cable channel 11 in most parts of the market.

The station first signed on the air on September 30, 1953 as WSJS-TV. It is the third-oldest surviving television station in North Carolina, behind Charlotte's WBTV and channel 12's rival in the Greensboro market, WFMY-TV. The station at first was owned by a partnership of Piedmont Publishing, publishers of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel, and Hollywood star Mary Pickford and her husband Charles "Buddy" Rogers. It took its calls from Piedmont Publishing's WSJS radio (600 AM and 104.1 FM, now WTQR). The original call letters stood for Winston-Salem Journal Sentinel.


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