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WILM-LP
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| Wilmington, North Carolina | |
| Branding | CBS 10 WILM |
| Slogan | Wilmington's Weather Station |
| Channels | Analog: 10 (VHF) Digital: 40 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS (since 2000) |
| Owner | Capitol Broadcasting Company |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Call letters meaning | WILMington |
| Former callsigns | W10BZ (1989-95) WSSN-LP (1995-2000) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1989-95) UPN (1995-2006, secondary from 2000) |
| Website | www.wilm-tv.com |
For the radio station in Wilmington, Delaware go to WILM-AM
WILM-LP is the CBS television affiliate for the Wilmington, North Carolina market. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 10 as a low-power station. Its digital signal is not available over-the-air yet; however, there is a construction permit for WILM-LD 40 currently, and so the station may be viewed in Wilmington on Time Warner digital cable channel 914.
WILM-LP began in 1989 as low-powered station W10BZ, changing its callsign to WSSN-LP in 1995. It eventually became a low-power UPN affiliate. In 1999, Capitol Broadcasting Company of Raleigh, North Carolina acquired the station.
On March 23, 2000 the station became a CBS affiliate, filling a void created when previous CBS affiliate WJKA-TV changed its calls to WSFX-TV and dropped CBS to become a Fox affiliate. CBS programming was seen in Wilmington on WNCT-TV (Greenville), WBTW-TV (Florence, S.C.), WFMY-TV (Greensboro), and WRAL-TV (Raleigh) until WILM's affiliation with the network. The station retained a secondary affiliation with UPN until that network stopped operations in 2006. Interestingly enough, CBS and UPN had the same parent company, CBS Corporation.
WILM does not produce its own newscasts. Instead, it simulcasts the morning, early evening and late newscasts from sister station WRAL in Raleigh, with local weather inserts.
After UPN and The WB merged in fall 2006 to form The CW, WILM finally became a full-time CBS station, due to cable-only WBW becoming the CW Network affiliate, and News Corporation's My Network TV moving to a new station in Wilmington, WMYW-LP 47.
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WILM-LP | | WJZY | | WMYT | | WRAL-TV | | WRAZ | | North Carolina News Network | | WCMC | | WRAL-FM |
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| See also: Broadcast television in the Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville, Greenville/New Bern/Washington, and Florence/Myrtle Beach markets |
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WFMY 2 (Greensboro) - WBTV 3 (Charlotte) - WRAL 5 (Raleigh) - WNCT 9 (Greenville) - WILM-LP 10 (Wilmington) |
| See also: ABC, Fox, NBC, PBS, CW, MNTV and Other stations in North Carolina |