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WUVC-DT, virtual channel 40 (UHF digital channel 38), is a Univision owned-and-operated television station that is licensed to Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. It primarily serves North Carolina's Triangle region, though it also targets Charlotte. The station is owned by Univision Communications. Its studios are located on Falls of Neuse Road in Raleigh, while its transmitter is located near Broadway. WUVC is shown on Time Warner Cable channel 8 in Fayetteville, Raleigh, Carrboro, and most other areas of the Triangle, channel 2 in Cary, Garner, Clayton and Smithfield, channel 11 in Durham and Chapel Hill, and channel 63 in Charlotte and the surrounding area. ==History== Channel 40 had its beginnings in Fayetteville as WKFT-TV, the first independent station in eastern North Carolina. It received a construction permit on July 22, 1980, and went on the air less than a year later on June 1, 1981. WKFT first operated from the old First Union Bank on the corner of Donaldson and Russell Streets in downtown Fayetteville and transmitted its signal from a tower in unincorporated Cumberland County on Cliffdale Road, with 1.54 million watts of power (the tower site has since been annexed into Fayetteville). Fayetteville Television, a group of local businessmen organized by Robert Warren, a former Fayetteville reporter for then-ABC affiliate WRAL-TV (channel 5, now a CBS affiliate) in Raleigh, founded the station. Warren served as WKFT's first general manager, but was never an investor and was let go after only a month. WKFT offered a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, westerns, religious shows, dramas and classic sitcoms. The station put a fairly decent signal into the southern portion of the Triangle, but was harder to receive in the more populated areas of the market. In 1985, WKFT was sold to SJL Broadcasting, which formed Central Carolina Television to manage the station. The new owners subsequently invested about $5 million to build a new tower near the Harnett/Lee County line. The new transmitter, activated in June 1986, operated with a full five million watts of power. It brought WKFT's signal to the entire Triangle, and as far west as Greensboro. The station also rebranded itself as "Counterforce 40" and significantly upgraded its programming, filling a void left when WLFL, the Triangle's largest independent, joined the upstart Fox network. However, it operated on a low budget, selling advertising mainly in the southern part of the market. By 1989, the station was in dire financial straits, reportedly from debts owed to film houses for movies shown on the station. In December 1989, WRAL's transmission tower was destroyed in a severe ice storm, forcing it off the air. Within three hours, WKFT picked up WRAL-TV's entire broadcast schedule. It simulcast WRAL entirely until October 1990, when WRAL's new transmission tower was erected. Additionally, WRAL purchased the WKFT tower at Broadway. It installed Electronic news-gathering microwave receivers vital to relaying Fayetteville coverage to the WRAL studios in West Raleigh. After the simulcast ended, WKFT resumed a general entertainment format that fall with stronger programming offering a blend of sitcoms, cartoons, movies, talk shows and reality shows. In the spring of 1991, Delta Broadcasting bought WKFT. By this time, the station was known as simply "TV 40." In 1994, the station was sold to Allied Communications, who subsequently sold it to Bahakel Communications in 1996. WKFT lost bids for the UPN and WB affiliations to WRDC and WRAZ respectively, and remained the only full-market general entertainment independent in the Triangle. As the 1990s went on, stronger programming became more difficult to find, and WKFT moved toward more paid programming (though it did briefly serve as the over-the-air home of the Carolina Hurricanes). On March 14, 2002, the station's transmission tower was struck by a small aircraft. Although the station's broadcasts continued on local cable systems, the station remained off the air for a few months. The station was purchased by Univision Communications in April 2003. It switched its callsign and network affiliation on June 1 of that year, becoming the North Carolina's area's first Spanish-language television station. Its English-language programming inventory was picked up by WLFL and WRDC. The station later moved from its longtime studios in downtown Fayetteville to a new facility in Raleigh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WUVC-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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