WNCN

WNCN

Goldsboro–Raleigh–Durham– Fayetteville, North Carolina United States
City	Goldsboro, North Carolina
Channels	Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 17
Branding	CBS 17
Programming
Affiliations	17.1: CBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Media Inc.)
History
First air date	April 11, 1988 (36 years ago) (1988-04-11)
Former call signs	WYED (1988–1994)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 17 (UHF, 1988–2009) Digital: 55 (UHF, 1999–2009), 17 (UHF, 2009–2020)
Former affiliations	Independent (1988–1995) The WB (January–September 1995) NBC (secondary February–September 1995; primary September 1995–2016)
Call sign meaning	"North Carolina's News"[1]
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	50782
ERP	29 kW
HAAT	624.1 m (2,048 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	35°40′29″N 78°31′39″W / 35.67472°N 78.52750°W / 35.67472; -78.52750
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.cbs17.com

WNCN (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, serving the Research Triangle area as an affiliate of CBS. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Front Street in north Raleigh, and its transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina.

Built in 1988 as a second-tier independent station operating from studios in Clayton, North Carolina, under the call sign WYED, channel 17 was purchased by Outlet Communications in 1994 and replaced the anemic WRDC (channel 28) as the market's NBC affiliate in 1995, which included the establishment of a local newsroom and the adoption of the present WNCN call letters. NBC owned the station for more than a decade before spinning it off to Media General in 2006. WNCN became the new CBS affiliate for the Triangle market on February 29, 2016, switching with longtime CBS affiliate WRAL-TV, which had announced it would become the new NBC affiliate for the region.