WFMY got its start as an FM radio station in 1948. At the time, there were only 66 commercial FM stations operating in the U.S. A year later, when an estimated 1,200 homes out of 226,500 in the Greensboro market had a TV set, the station aired its first live TV broadcast. That Aug. 18 newscast lasted 4 minutes, 25 seconds. Until October 1950, approximately 40 percent of all WFMY-TV’s program time originated ‘‘live’’ from WFMY’s studios.
About Greensboro:
Greensboro is a huge textile and furniture manufacturing hub. In 1781, the area was the site of a Revolutionary War battle when General Greene made a stand against the British troops led by General Cornwallis. Today, intercollegiate athletics’ Atlantic Coast Conference has its headquarters in Greensboro; the area also is the home of NASCAR racing. Famous people who have called Greensboro home: Dolley Madison and O. Henry. The first civil rights ‘‘sit-in’’ in the nation happened at the F.W. Woolworth Co. in 1960 when four North Carolina A&T State University students sat down at a then-segregated lunch counter and asked for service.
WFMY News 2 (Channel 2, CBS)
1615 Phillips Ave., Greensboro, NC 27405
General Phone Number:
1-800-593-3692
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