Callsign: | WTNC-LD |
Branding: | Spanish; Castilian: italic=no|UniMás Raleigh |
Digital: | 11 (VHF) |
Virtual: | 26 |
Translators: | WUVC-DT 40.2 Fayetteville |
Founded: | March 7, 1995 |
Location: | Raleigh, North Carolina |
Country: | United States |
Callsign Meaning: | Telefutura North Carolina |
Sister Stations: | WUVC-DT |
Owner: | TelevisaUnivision |
Licensee: | WUVC License Partnership, G.P. |
Erp: | 3 kW |
Haat: | 107.70NaN0 |
Facility Id: | 70112 |
Class: | LD |
Coordinates: | 36.0593°N -78.9528°W |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
WTNC-LD (channel 26) is a low-power television station licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the Research Triangle region. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Fayetteville-licensed Univision station WUVC-DT (channel 40). The two stations share studios on Falls of Neuse Road in Raleigh; WTNC-LD's transmitter is located on Rose of Sharon Road in Durham.
Although WTNC-LD identifies as a separate station in its own right, it is officially licensed as a translator of WUVC-DT. In addition to its own digital signal, WTNC-LD is simulcast in high definition on WUVC-DT's second digital subchannel (40.2) from a transmitter northeast of Broadway, North Carolina. WUVC-DT, in turn, is simulcast on WTNC-LD's second digital subchannel.
The station originally signed on in early 1997 as W59CR from a tower near the corner of NC 98 and US 70 By-Pass in East Durham. Broadcasting then on channel 59, the station rebroadcast WACN-LP (channel 34) from Apex, a Christian TV station. The call letters changed to WIWW-LP in late 1997.
When WUNC-TV needed UHF channel 59 for digital, WIWW vacated the channel for UHF 26 on the WNCU tower off Rose of Sharon Road in northwest Durham. It was home shopping for a while, then dark, then Telefutura (now UniMás).
In 2007, WTNC began simulcasting as a digital subchannel of sister station WUVC-TV in Fayetteville and other southern regions of the viewing area. In 2010, WTNC switched to digital broadcasting.
The station's signal is multiplexed:
26.1 | UNIMAS | |||
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WUVC-DT | Univision (WUVC-DT) | |||
26.3 | BOUNCE | Bounce TV | ||
26.4 | getTV | GetTV | ||
26.5 | LAFF | Laff | ||
26.6 | Quest | Quest | ||
26.7 | NVSN | Nuestra Visión (soon) |