As we continue our compilation series,
We’re now in North Carolina to cover PBS North Carolina (formerly known as UNC-TV).
PBS North Carolina was launched as WUNC-TV in Chapel Hill, the state network's flagship station, first signed on the air on January 8, 1955 as as the second non-commercial educational television station located south of Washington, D.C.-one day after Cheaha, Alabama-licensed WCIQ-TV. Over the next twelve years, four more satellite stations signed on. WUND-TV in Edenton (originally WUNB-TV, licensed to Columbia) was the first of these satellites to debut on September 10, 1965, followed by the launches of WUNE-TV in Linville, WUNF-TV in Asheville, and WUNG-TV in Concord-all on September 11, 1967, and WUNJ-TV in Wilmington on June 4, 1971. This was supplemented with a network of translator stations in the Appalachian Mountains that also allowed the network's programming to reach across the entire state.
Five additional satellites debuted afterward: WUNK-TV in Greenville in May 1972, WUNL-TV in Winston-Salem in February 1973, WUNM-TV in Jacksonville in November 1982, WUNP-TV in Roanoke Rapids in October 1986, and WUNU-TV in Lumberton in September 1996. The state network's youngest station, WUNW in Canton, signed on in July 2010 to replace a translator that had served the area since the 1980s. The state network was branded on-air as North Carolina Public Television from 1979 to the mid-1990s, when it rebranded itself as University of North Carolina Television. It simplified the brand name to UNC-TV later in the 1990s; it had previously used that brand for most of the 1970s.
On January 12, 2021, following the launch of the brand new 2019 PBS logo, UNC-TV is rebranded as PBS North Carolina in order of in recognition of PBS' growing online content delivery, the state network and still while continuing to acknowledge its ties to the university system as being "Powered by the UNC System".
Here is the compilation of UNC-TV & PBS North Carolina station identifications from 1971 onward.
0:00 UNC-TV
9:57 PBS North Carolina
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