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Station(s) / Networks(s)

WUNC-TV

Format

Article

Key Date(s)

January 8, 1955

City

Chapel Hill

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WUNC-TV signs on the air in Chapel Hill on Jan. 8, 1955, as a statewide public television organization, later becoming UNC-TV, and finally, PBS North Carolina. It is the first non-commercial, educational television station in North Carolina and the tenth in the United States. It broadcasts a Wake Forest–UNC basketball game on opening night.

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