WNGT-CD (channel 34), branded WRAL Plus, is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to both Smithfield and

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, United States, serving the

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region. Locally owned by

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, it is programmed as a news-formatted

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. WNGT-CD is

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affiliate and company

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WRAL-TV WRAL-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Research Triangle area. It is the flagship station of the locally based Capitol Broadcasting Company, which has ...

(channel 5) and

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affiliate WRAZ (channel 50), both licensed to

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. The stations share studios at Capitol Broadcasting headquarters on Western Boulevard in Raleigh; WNGT-CD's transmitter is located atop WRAL-TV's former analog tower, on TV Tower Road in

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. Prior to 2021, the station transmitted from South Pollock Street ( US 301) in Selma, near the Selma Memorial Cemetery. On September 11, 2020, Waters & Brock Communications reached a deal to sell then-WARZ-CD to Capitol Broadcasting for use as an

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NextGen TV multiplex for its Raleigh television stations. While WNGT-CD's signal is used to multiplex ATSC 3.0 transmissions, its original programming is now aired via a subchannel of WRAL-TV that displays as

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34.1. On October 21, 2021, the station's call letters were changed to WNGT-CD. The station is the local broadcast home of the

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, the Triple-A affiliate of the

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. Both the Bulls and WNGT-CD are owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company.

Technical information

Subchannel

ATSC 3.0 lighthouse

WNGT-CD's ATSC 3.0 multiplex carries its main programming and those of its sister Capitol stations and

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member station WUNC-TV. On November 20, 2020, then-WARZ-CD switched over to ATSC 3.0, with simulcasts from WRAL-TV and WRAZ. On December 10, WRAL-TV began the ATSC 1.0 simulcast of WARZ-CD. On March 22, PBS North Carolina began simulcast of WUNC-TV.

References

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