With days to go before the deadline, the station announced it would indeed remain on the air because it was nearing a deal to be sold. While WKFT initially prepared programs for its return, SJL announced in early November that it would take channel 40 silent at the end of the month if no buyer could be found for the station, citing the striking down of must-carry regulations in 1985 and regional economic upheaval from the deployment of Fort Bragg troops ahead of the Gulf War SJL chairman George Lilly said that the station might already have left the air if not for the unexpected revenues from the WRAL agreement. WRAL, which had purchased WKFT's tower and installed microwave equipment to add a roundup of Fayetteville news stories to its newscasts, continued a partnership with channel 40, which agreed to air any CBS programs channel 5 preempted.
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WKFT didn't resume its own schedule until WRAL-TV returned to full power and the November sweeps book was over. SJL's deal to sell the station to Zenox collapsed in early March. However, WRAL's extended stay on channel 40 also provided a respite for WKFT, whose future was in limbo. Overnight movies were added to WRAL-WKFT's schedule in order to provide make-goods for national commercials in WKFT's shows. This arrangement displaced nearly all of channel 40's own programming. While WRAL was able to bring channel 5 back on the air before the end of the year at low power, it opted to remain on channel 40 even then in order to avoid any loss of viewership. Within hours, WKFT had reached a deal to simulcast WRAL-TV's programming for almost all of its broadcast day as a public service. On December 10, 1989, an ice storm collapsed the towers of WRAL-TV and WPTF-TV near Auburn. In November, the sale of channel 40 was announced to the Zenox Corporation for $5 million. It had also failed in a bid to take the NBC affiliation from WPTF-TV (now WRDC). However, it operated on a low budget, selling advertising mainly in the southern part of the market.īy 1989, WKFT was in dire financial straits, reportedly from debts owed to film studios for movies shown on the station. The station also rebranded itself as "Counterforce 40" and significantly upgraded its programming, competing with WLFL, the Triangle's largest independent, which joined the upstart Fox network. It gave channel 40 a coverage area comparable to the established Triangle stations, got the station on cable systems in the Raleigh– Durham area, and provided grade B coverage as far west as Greensboro. The new transmitter, activated in June 1986, operated with a full five million watts of power. The new owners subsequently invested about $5 million to build a new 1,800-foot (549 m) tower in Broadway, near the Harnett– Lee county line. In 1985, the original owners sold WKFT to SJL Broadcasting, which formed Central Carolina Television to manage the station. The station put a fairly decent signal into the southern portion of the Triangle, but was harder to receive in the more densely populated areas of the market. WKFT offered a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, westerns, religious shows, dramas and classic sitcoms.
Fayetteville Television was organized by Robert Warren, a former Fayetteville reporter for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, who served as WKFT's first general manager, but was never an investor and was let go after only a month.
The station began broadcasting as independent station WKFT on Jstudios were located in the old First Union Bank on Donaldson Street in downtown Fayetteville and transmitted its signal from a 750-foot (229 m) tower in unincorporated Cumberland County on Cliffdale Road, with 1.54 million watts of power (the tower site has since been annexed into Fayetteville). On February 26, 1980, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Fayetteville Television, Inc., for a new commercial television station on channel 40 in Fayetteville. WUVC-TV is also carried on Charter Spectrum's cable systems in the Charlotte and Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point markets. Both stations share studios on Falls of Neuse Road in Raleigh, while WUVC-DT's transmitter is located northeast of Broadway, North Carolina. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Raleigh-licensed low-power UniMás owned-and-operated station WTNC-LD (channel 26). WUVC-DT (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Research Triangle region.
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