History
WUNC-TV in Chapel Hill, the state network's primary station, signed on January 8, 1955 as the first non-commercial educational television station south of Washington, D.C.. In the next 12 years, four more stations signed-on and a system of translators in the mountains allowed the signal to reach across the entire state. The state network's youngest station, WUNW in Canton, signed on in July 2010. The state network was known on-air as North Carolina Public Television (identified in North Carolina editions of TV Guide as CPT, an abbreviated form of "University of North Carolina Center for Public Television") from the 1970s through the mid-1990s, when it began calling itself University of North Carolina Television. It adopted the shorter name of UNC-TV later in the 1990s.
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