WUVC-TV

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WUVC-TV
Fayetteville / Raleigh / Durham / Greensboro, North Carolina
Channels	40 (UHF) analog, 38 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Univision
Owner	Univision
Founded	July 22, 1980
Call letters meaning	W Univision Carolina
Former affiliations	Independent (1981-2003)
Transmitter Power	5,000 kW Analog 500 kW Digital STA 1,000 kW Digital CP
Website	www.univision.com

WUVC-TV is a broadcast television station based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Broadcasting on UHF channel 40, WUVC is a Univision television network owned and operated station.

[edit] History

Channel 40 began operation on June 1, 1981 and was known as WKFT-TV -- even though the call letters were originally assigned to its original owners Central Carolina Television on July 22, 1980. It offered a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, westerns, religious shows, dramas, and classic sitcoms. At one point, the station even had a 10PM newscast, which focused more on Fayetteville area news even after its signal had been expanded in August of 1986 to cover the entire Triangle television market. Even though it was essentially a low budget operation, it still fell on hard times financially, despite a brief rebranding as "CounterForce 40" in 1986 under new ownership by SJL Broadcasting.

When WRAL-TV's transmission tower was destroyed in a severe ice storm in December 1989, forcing it off the air, WKFT picked up WRAL-TV's entire broadcast schedule until October 1990, when WRAL's new tower was erected.

In the fall of 1991, following purchase by Delta Broadcasting, WKFT resumed a general entertainment format with stronger programming, offering a blend of sitcoms, cartoons, movies, talk shows, and reality shows. It lost bids for the UPN and WB affiliations, so it remained an independent station.

In 1994 the station was sold to Allied Communications, which subsequently sold it to Bahakel in 1996. Still, as stronger programming was not as readily available, WKFT moved toward more paid programming. On March 14, 2002 the station's transmission tower was struck by a small aircraft. Although the station's broadcasts continued on local cable networks, the station remained off the air for a few months.

The station was purchased by Univision in April 2003. It switched its call-sign and affiliation on June 1 of that year, becoming the Research Triangle area's first Spanish-language television channel. Its programming inventory was picked up by WLFL-TV and WRDC-TV.

WUVC's signal can also be picked up in Greensboro.

[edit] See also

• WTNC-LP

[edit] External link

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WUVC

Broadcast television in the Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville market  (Nielsen DMA #29)
WUNC 4 / WUNU 31 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WRAL 5 (CBS) - WTVD 11 (ABC) - WNCN 17 (NBC) - WLFL 22 (The CW) - W24CP 24 (3ABN) - WTNC 26 (TFU) - WRDC 28 (MNTV) - WRAY 30 (S@H/JTV) - WACN-LP 34 (DS) - WUVC 40 (UNI) - WHFL-LP 43 (Worship) - WZGS 44 (Telemundo) - W45CN 45 / W45CO 45 / W63CW 63 / W64CN 64 (TBN) - WRPX 47 / WFPX 62 (i) - WRAZ 50 (Fox) - WWIW-LP 66 (DS) - W67CD 67 (A1) - W68BK 68 (Educational)
Local cable television channels
News 14 Carolina
Out-of-market broadcast television available on cable in some parts of the market
WECT 6 (NBC, Wilmington)