WXLV-TV

WXLV-TV, virtual channel 45 (UHF digital channel 29), is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina--Greensboro, High Point and its city of license, Winston-Salem. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV (channel 48). The two stations share studio facilities located on Myer Lee Drive in Winston-Salem (along I-40), and its transmitter is located in Randleman (along I-73/U.S. 220). The station is available on channel 7 on most cable providers in the market.

History

Independent station

The station first signed on the air on September 24, 1979 as WGNN-TV. It was the first independent station in the Piedmont Triad region, and broadcast its signal from a transmitter located west of Gap in Stokes County. The station was bought by the TVX Broadcast Group in 1980 and changed its call letters to WJTM-TV on October 20. Over the years, the station ran a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, movies, sitcoms, and drama series. It changed its call letters to WNRW on June 8, 1984 in memory of an employee, General Sales Manager William N. Rismiller, who was murdered in a shooting at the station that year.