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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Radio Stations in the Triangle, North Carolina, Television Stations in Raleigh-Durham, Wral-Tv, Wtvd, Wncn, Wxdu, Wlfl, Wraz, Wrdu, Wdcg, Wkix, Wxyc, Wdnc, Wqdr, Wcpe, Wray-Tv, Wkix-Fm, North Carolina Public Radio, Wuvc-Dt, Wksl, Wfxc, Wrva-Fm, Wcmc-Fm, Wbbb, Wchl, Wrjd, Wztk, Wfpx-Tv, Mini Page, Wrtp, Wcce, Wqok, Wdru, Wrtg, Wrpx-Tv, Whfl-Lp, Wyfl, Wajc, Raleigh Times, Wnnl, Wtnc-Lp, Wymy, W68bk, Wncu, Wero, Warz-Lp, Whpy, Wvdj-Lp, Wsha, Wzgs-Ca, Wkxu, Raleigh Chronicle, Wrqm, Wund-Fm. Excerpt: WRAL-TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The station's first broadcast was on December 15, 1956 that was an airing of the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street. Alfred Johnson "A.J." Fletcher's Capitol Broadcasting, which began in 1939 with WRAL radio (1240 AM, now WPJL), had won the license in something of an upset over the much larger Durham Life Insurance Company owners of the Triangle's oldest continuous radio station, WPTF. Channel 5 was originally an NBC affiliate. When WNAO-TV (channel 28), the Triangle's ABC affiliate, went dark in 1959, WRAL shared ABC with Durham-based WTVD (which counted Fletcher's son, Floyd, among its founders) until 1962 when it took the ABC affiliation full-time. This was somewhat unusual for a two-station market and the reason for this is still not clear to this day. ABC was not on an equal footing with NBC and CBS, in terms of both ratings and affiliated stations, until the early 1970s. WTVD shoehorned NBC and CBS programming onto its schedule until 1971 when WRDU-TV, which began operations in 1968 on channel 28, finally got the exclusive NBC affiliation. Ironically, Durham Life bought WRDU in 1978 and changed the calls to WPTF-TV (it is now MyNetworkTV affiliate WRDC-TV, owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group). From 19... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=450860