WECT
WECT is the
NBC affiliate in
Wilmington, North Carolina. It broadcasts its analog signal on
VHF channel 6, and its digital signal on
UHF channel 44.
The station's transmitter is located near
Elizabethtown. It has a powerful signal that reaches much of southeastern
North Carolina and northeastern
South Carolina.
WECT also serves as the NBC affiliate for the northern and eastern portion of the
Florence/Myrtle Beach market, since that area doesn't have an NBC affiliate. WECT is also carried on cable providers in
Fayetteville, NC and
Jacksonville, NC, even though their respective markets do have their own NBC affiliates.
WECT was the first television station in Wilmington, and since then it has remained the #1 station in the region. It first signed on the air on
April 9,
1954, preceding rival
WWAY by more than 10 years.
From the station's start until
1958, the station was known as WMFD-TV and was co-owned with WMFD-AM-FM. WMFD-TV are currently the
call letters of
a television station in
Mansfield, Ohio.
Michael Cogdill began his news anchoring career on WECT around the mid 1980s two weeks after he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, in Asheville, North Carolina. In 1989 he left WECT to work as a weekend anchor at
WYFF-TV in
Greenville, SC. Today, he still works at
WYFF-TV as a 5:00pm, 6:00pm, and 11:00pm weekday news anchor.
Since
September 22,
2003, WECT has produced a 10 o'clock news program for
WSFX-TV. It is currently the only 10 o'clock news program in the market.
WECT announcer/newsanchor Ken Murphy retired in December
2004 after 40 years at the station. He was replaced by Jim Hanchett, who was once a national NBC correspondent.
News
*Carolina in the Morning Early Edition - Weekdays 5am-6am
*Carolina in the Morning - Weekdays 6am-7am
*WECT News at Midday - Weekdays 12pm-12:30pm
*WECT News at 5 - Weekdays 5pm-6pm
*WECT News at 6 - All nights 6pm-6:30pm
*WECT News at 11 - Weekdays 11pm-11:35pm / Weekends 11pm-11:30pm
*Fox 26 News at 10 - Broadcast on sister station
WSFX-TV. Sunday thru Friday nights 10pm-10:35pm / Saturday nights 10pm-10:30pm
Syndicated programs
*
Martha - Weekdays 10am-11am
*
Ellen - Weekdays 11am-12pm
*
Inside Edition - Weekdays 12:30pm-1pm
*
Dr. Phil - Weekdays 3pm-4pm
*
Oprah - Weekdays 4pm-5pm
*
Wheel of Fortune - Weeknights and Saturday nights 7pm-7:30pm
*
Jeopardy! - Weeknights 7:30pm-8pm
*
Extra - Weeknights 2:05am-2:35am and Sunday nights 1:30am-2:30am
*
Jack Van Impe Presents - Sunday nights 11:30pm-12am
NBC programs
WECT usually airs the entire NBC schedule, except it doesn't air NBC's late night repeats of
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and
Late Night with Conan O'Brien, instead airing infomercials during those hours.
The station carries
NBC Weather Plus on its digital subchannel 6.2.
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