WXLV-TV

WXLV-TV

Winston-Salem–Greensboro– High Point, North Carolina United States
City	Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Channels	Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 45
Branding	ABC 45
Programming
Affiliations	45.1: ABC[1] for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (WXLV Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	WMYV
History
First air date	September 22, 1979 (45 years ago) (1979-09-22)
Former call signs	WGNN-TV (1979–1980) WJTM-TV (1980–1984) WNRW (1984–1995)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 45 (UHF, 1979–2009)
Former affiliations	Independent (1979–1986) Fox (1986–1995) UPN (secondary, 1995–1996)
Call sign meaning	XLV = Roman numeral 45
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	414
ERP	990 kW
HAAT	576 m (1,890 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	35°52′2.6″N 79°49′25.4″W / 35.867389°N 79.823722°W / 35.867389; -79.823722
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	abc45.com

WXLV-TV (channel 45) is a television station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Piedmont Triad region. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Greensboro-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV (channel 48). The two stations share studios on Myer Lee Drive (along US 421) in Winston-Salem; WXLV-TV's transmitter is located in Randleman (along I-73/US 220).

Channel 45 went on the air in 1979 as WGNN-TV, a Christian-oriented TV station. It was sold to Television Corporation Stations—later renamed TVX Broadcast Group—in 1980 and changed its call sign to WJTM-TV, becoming the Triad's first general-entertainment independent station. After a gunman killed the general sales manager in 1984, TVX renamed the station WNRW, incorporating his initials. WNRW became the market's first Fox affiliate in 1986; TVX then sold it to Act III Broadcasting in 1986 in order to acquire a station in the adjacent Raleigh market. Act III combined the station's schedule and programming with Greensboro independent WGGT in 1991, creating a simulcast.

In 1995, as a result of regional ABC affiliate WGHP switching to Fox, channel 45 became an ABC affiliate under new WXLV call letters and began broadcasting local news programming. It also picked up a secondary affiliation with UPN, which became channel 48's primary programming when the simulcast was split the next year. Sinclair acquired WXLV in 1998. The station's local newscasts failed to make headway against the established stations in the Triad. Sinclair shuttered the local news department in January 2002. Since then, Sinclair has implemented smaller-scale news programs for the station, first as part of the News Central service, then with cable news channel News 14 Carolina (later Spectrum News North Carolina) and since 2021 with local reporters and anchors at a Sinclair station in Texas.