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62-692: The Belleville News-Democrat was founded in 1858 as the Weekly Democrat . In the early 1860s, it merged with the Belleville News to become the Belleville News-Democrat . It was a family-owned newspaper until 1972, when it was purchased by Capital Cities Communications . When Disney acquired Capital Cities, it briefly owned the News-Democrat until Knight Ridder acquired the newspaper in 1997. McClatchy acquired

124-539: A black-and-white film of " The Star-Spangled Banner ", followed by You Bet Your Life . It was originally a primary NBC affiliate, with secondary ABC and CBS affiliations. Channel 11 is the Triangle's oldest surviving television station, having signed on a few months after CBS affiliate WNAO-TV (channel 28). The station's initial studios were located in a former tuberculosis sanitorium at Broad Street in Durham, with

186-686: A company owned by former CapCities shareholder John B. Poole. Poole's own Poole Broadcasting firm would later purchase two other television stations from CapCities: the second was WPRO-TV (now WPRI-TV ) in 1967, coinciding with CapCities' purchase of KTRK-TV in Houston from the Houston Chronicle in June of that year. In 1968, Capital Cities entered the publishing business by acquiring Fairchild Publications , publisher of several magazines including Women's Wear Daily . The following year

248-577: A full hour and a half of The National Desk will fill the 10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. time slot on WLFL, leaving once again WRAZ as the only local station showing news at 10 pm. On September 11, 2023, WTVD, along with sister stations WABC-TV and WPVI-TV, launched an additional hour-long newscast at 10 a.m. which took over the time slot previously occupied by Tamron Hall . The newscast is co-anchored by John Clark and Barbara Gibbs with meteorologist Kwielyn Murphy. The broadcast will continue to deliver news in

310-555: A local Albany businessman, and several investors, including future Congressman Leo William O'Brien and local advertising executive Harry L. Goldman decided to bid for a new radio station license in Albany. Rosenblum was also instrumental in help co-founding Hudson Valley Community College in Troy several years later, when he was on the Board of Trustees from 1953 to 1957 and then became

372-601: A pair to the E. W. Scripps Company 's broadcasting division (then known as Scripps-Howard Broadcasting). WTNH and WKBW-TV were sold separately to minority-owned companies; WKBW-TV would eventually be acquired by E.W. Scripps by 2014. WTNH would have been sold in any event due to a significant signal overlap with ABC flagship WABC-TV in New York City . At the time, the FCC normally did not allow companies to own two television stations with common coverage areas (known commonly as

434-658: A then-CBS affiliate, WTVD aired the Wolfpack men's basketball team 's upset of the Houston Cougars in the 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game . WTVD also aired select Carolina Hurricanes NHL games through the NHL on ABC from 2000 to 2004, and since 2021. WTVD presently broadcasts 48 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday, 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Saturdays and six hours on Sundays); in regard to

496-412: A traditional format, and will also allow more focus to be placed on local newsmakers, and further discussion on topics addressed on Good Morning America and Live with Kelly and Mark . The station's signal is multiplexed : WTVD discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, at 12:30 p.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in

558-598: A transmitter located atop Signal Hill in northern Durham County . WRAL-TV (channel 5), based in Raleigh and locally owned by the Capitol Broadcasting Company , debuted in December 1956 and took over as the Triangle's NBC affiliate, leaving channel 11 with only ABC. WNAO-TV ceased operations at the end of 1957 due to financial difficulties, and CBS moved its primary affiliation to WTVD. During

620-544: A year later cited the pilot's decision to continue the flight despite a known engine problem. On April 30, 2000, a dispute between Disney and Time Warner Cable forced WTVD off cable systems within the Raleigh–Durham–Fayetteville market for over 24 hours during the May sweeps period. Other ABC stations in markets served by Time Warner Cable, such as New York City , Los Angeles and Houston , were also affected by

682-651: Is located in Auburn, North Carolina . On-air branding uses ABC 11 as a station identifier, with the call letters taking a secondary role. In 1952, two rival companies each applied for a construction permit to build a television station in Durham on the city's newly allotted VHF channel 11—Herald-Sun Newspapers (publishers of the Durham Morning Herald and the Durham Sun as well as the owners of radio station WDNC ) and Floyd Fletcher and Harmon Duncan,

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744-660: Is now affiliated with MyNetworkTV ). In 1978, WTVD attempted to expand its broadcast coverage to the Fayetteville area, which had been without a television station of its own for nearly two decades. Its studios were relocated to their current location on Liberty Street in downtown Durham on a parcel of land it shares with the Durham County Library; it also built its current 2,000-foot (610 m) tower in Auburn. A fire on March 4, 1979, caused extensive damage to

806-410: Is still one of the strongest ABC stations in the country. As with ABC's other owned-and-operated stations, WTVD features forecasts provided by AccuWeather for the weather segments of its newscasts. It operates its own weather radar , called "First Alert Doppler XP", at its transmitter site in Auburn. WTVD has a fleet of regular news vans and trucks as well as a yellow Toyota FJ Cruiser which carries

868-761: The Albany Democrat-Herald , the Ashland Daily Tidings , and several other local newspapers and magazines. The Kansas City (Missouri) Star was acquired in 1977, and the following year CapCities bought Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania . In 1977, the company was a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit by the owners of Buffalo-based TV stations against the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission over that country's simultaneous substitution rules. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against

930-625: The Charleston capital region), in 1964. CapCities entered the Los Angeles market in 1966 with its purchase of KPOL (later KZLA and now the present-day KMPC) and KPOL-FM (later KZLA-FM and now KLLI ). As a result of the Goodwill Stations purchase, and to adhere to Federal Communications Commission rules limiting ownership of VHF television stations to five per company, Capital Cities spun off WJRT-TV to Poole Broadcasting,

992-850: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Kansas City Star ; and other broadcasting and publishing properties. Orbis Communications immediately purchased the syndication rights to the Capital Cities production library. The library was then leased to pay cable channel HBO for two years for its Family Specials library of 26 titles. In May 1991, Capital Cities/ABC's Farm Progress Cos. closed its purchase of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. 's 12-magazine farm publishing group. In 1992, Capital Cities/ABC sold Word Inc.'s music and book publishing to Thomas Nelson . In 1992, ABC launched its new home video unit ABC Video, which

1054-458: The News-Democrat one of "Ten newspapers that do it right" under the leadership of former publisher, Gary Berkeley, and former editor, Greg Edwards. It is also the only newspaper in Illinois or Missouri to grow net paid circulation for ten years in a row, and is a frequent winner in state and regional journalism awards. In 2007, News-Democrat reporters Beth Hundsdorfer and George Pawlaczyk won

1116-723: The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for "Lethal Lapses", a series investigating errors of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services that resulted in the deaths of 53 children. On February 13, 2020, The McClatchy Company and 54 affiliated companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York . The company cited pension obligations and excessive debt as

1178-467: The " one-to-a-market " rule), and would not even consider granting a waiver for a city-grade overlap. The merged company could have been forced to sell off WPVI as well due to a large Grade B signal overlap with WABC-TV. Citing CBS ' ownership of television stations in New York City ( WCBS-TV ) and Philadelphia (at the time WCAU-TV ) under grandfathered status , Capital Cities/ABC requested, and

1240-491: The 1953 20th Century Fox film Taxi for a fictional television station appearing in the movie. At the time, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowed unassigned call letters to be used in fictional works for an exclusive two-year period, making them unavailable for actual broadcast use. Ten months after being granted its permit, on September 2, 1954, WTVD began broadcasting with

1302-548: The 1980s and 1990s, Miriam Thomas, abruptly left WTVD after nineteen years in November 2001. Notable former members of WTVD's news staff include musicians John Tesh and John D. Loudermilk , as well as former Good Morning America co-host David Hartman , ESPN personality Stuart Scott , and Nightline host Byron Pitts . From 1973 to 1984, WTVD used the Eyewitness News brand for its newscasts, though its format

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1364-504: The CC/ABC Broadcast Group, and a newly formed CC/ABC Multimedia Group overseeing the network, magazines & newspapers, stations and new technology & miscellaneous operations respectively. Network Group president Bob Iger was also promoted to executive president of CC/ABC. Also in 1993, ABC launched a new video line Signet Video, which were designed to release feature films for theatrical release or telemovies. It

1426-758: The President of the company. In 1956, WROW-TV moved from channel 41 to channel 10 and became WCDA. In 1957, Hudson Valley Broadcasting merged with Durham Broadcasting Enterprises , the owners of WTVD television in Durham, North Carolina . The new company took the name Capital Cities Television Corporation in November 1957, as both WROW/WCDA (now WTEN ) and WTVD served the capital regions of their respective states. Capital Cities then began purchasing stations, starting with WPRO-AM - FM -TV in Providence, Rhode Island (another capital city) in 1959. In December 1959,

1488-479: The Triangle behind WRAL and the eighth ABC-owned station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . The primetime news on WLFL was included in the upgrade. WTVD debuted an hour-long 4 p.m. newscast on May 26, 2011, to fill the void left by The Oprah Winfrey Show , whose long run in that time slot came to an end a day earlier. On June 27, 2022, it was announced on WLFL's social media accounts that WTVD would no longer produce newscasts for WLFL and

1550-458: The Triangle purchase was finalized. After the sale was consummated, its syndicated unit was renamed to Capital Cities Television Productions (aka Capital Cities TV Productions and Capital Cities Productions). Charles Keller was named general manager of the unit. WSAZ radio in Huntington was divested to Stoner Broadcasting (it is now WRVC ), also as a result of the Triangle deal. To reflect

1612-557: The United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 52, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 11. On September 23, 2009, the station filed an application to the FCC to increase its effective radiated power from 20.7 to 45 kilowatts. Effective June 30, 2020, under

1674-750: The board's secretary in 1957, holding that position until his death in 1996. The company was incorporated as Hudson Valley Broadcasting Company on April 5, 1946 when the company received the license for WROW radio in Albany, New York . In October 1953, it opened the Albany- Schenectady - Troy area's second television station, WROW-TV on channel 41. In the late fall of 1954, a group of New York City -based investors, led by famous radio broadcaster and author Lowell Thomas , bought majority control of Hudson Valley Broadcasting from Rosenblum and associates. Thomas' manager/investing partner, Frank Smith became

1736-494: The broadcasters . From 1978 to 1985, just before it bought ABC, Capital Cities Communications produced a series of family specials distributed through its syndicated unit. Returning to broadcasting, WBIE-FM (now WKHX-FM ) in Marietta, Georgia (near Atlanta , another capital city), was bought in 1981. WROW radio in Albany, the company's first station, and its FM counterpart (which is now WYJB ) were sold in 1983, and in 1984

1798-551: The company made its last pre-ABC-merger purchases with independent station WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida and KLAC radio in Los Angeles (concurrent with the sale of KZLA). On March 19, 1985, Capital Cities announced that it would purchase ABC for $ 3.5 billion, which shocked the media industry, as ABC was some four times bigger than Capital Cities was at the time. Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett helped to finance

1860-685: The company's name was changed to Capital Cities Broadcasting . During the 1960s, Capital Cities' holdings grew with the separate 1961 purchases of WPAT-AM - FM in Paterson, New Jersey , and WKBW radio and WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York ; and of the Goodwill Stations, which included WJR-AM - FM in Detroit , WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan , and WSAZ- AM - TV in Huntington, West Virginia (serving

1922-469: The controversial News Central format on its stations and shut down WLFL's established in-house news department. This newscast ran directly against the WRAL-produced 10 p.m. newscast on WRAZ (channel 50). On September 17, concurrent with WLFL's affiliation switch to The CW, the newscast changed its name to reflect its new affiliation. On April 21, 2008, WTVD became the second television station in

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1984-513: The country. On September 2, 2010, Disney and Time Warner Cable reached a long-term agreement to keep the Disney family of channels on its systems. On August 31, 2023, Disney removed all of its channels, including WTVD, two other ABC-owned stations, and the ESPN networks, from Spectrum cable systems due to a carriage dispute, its first with the provider since 2010 when its predecessor, Time Warner Cable,

2046-407: The deal in exchange for a 25 percent share in the combined company. The deal was, at the time, the largest non-oil merger in world business history. However, this record would be surpassed by year's end by the merger of General Electric and RCA (the latter company then being the parent company of rival network NBC ). The newly merged company, known as Capital Cities/ABC (or CapCities/ABC),

2108-651: The diversity of their holdings, the company changed its name to Capital Cities Communications on May 4, 1973. In 1974, Capital Cities bought WBAP and KSCS-FM in Fort Worth, Texas , along with its purchase of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram . The firm also increased its newspaper and publishing holdings during the middle-1970s. In 1974, Capital Cities acquired the Oregon-based Jackson Newspapers chain, which included

2170-460: The entire Raleigh–Durham–Fayetteville market; at the time this was the tallest man-made structure in the U.S. That same year, the station first began broadcasting network programs in color, although it would not be until 1966 before the same was true for local programming. After WRAL-TV took the ABC affiliation full-time in 1962, WTVD was forced to shoehorn CBS and NBC programming onto its schedule. This

2232-617: The firm purchased its first newspaper, The Oakland Press of Pontiac, Michigan . The following year, the company made another big purchase—acquiring WFIL- AM - FM -TV in Philadelphia , WNHC- AM - FM -TV in New Haven, Connecticut (in another capital region), and KFRE- AM - FM -TV in Fresno, California from Triangle Publications , as well as its syndicated television unit Triangle Program Sales. Capital Cities would immediately sell

2294-499: The following weekly papers: Capital Cities Communications Capital Cities/ABC Inc. was an American media company. It was founded in 1985 when Capital Cities Communications purchased the much larger American Broadcasting Company . It was eventually acquired by The Walt Disney Company and re-branded itself as Disney–ABC Television Group (now Disney General Entertainment Content ) in 1996. Capital Cities/ABC Inc. origins trace back in 1946, when Hyman Rosenblum (1911–1996),

2356-858: The formation of a new subsidiary, ABC, Inc., on September 19, 1996. Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license . Notes: WTVD WTVD (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Durham, North Carolina , United States, serving as the ABC outlet for the Research Triangle area. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, it maintains business offices and master control facilities on Liberty Street in downtown Durham, with newscasts originating from studios on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh , as well as news bureaus in Chapel Hill and Fayetteville . The station's transmitter

2418-608: The late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network . On May 22, 1957, the station's original owners sold their interest in WTVD to Albany, New York -based Hudson Valley Broadcasting Company, owners of WCDA-TV (now WTEN ), to form Capital Cities Television Corporation (predecessor of Capital Cities Communications ). Around 1958, WTVD built a 1,549-foot (472 m) tower at its present transmitter site in Auburn to increase its signal coverage for

2480-552: The market got a third commercial station six years later when a new channel 28 signed on as WRDU-TV (now WRDC ), WTVD continued to "cherry pick" the most popular CBS and NBC programs for another three years, leaving WRDU with the lower-rated shows from both networks as well as NBC's news programming. In 1971 the FCC, intervening on behalf of WRDU's owners and in the interest of protecting the development of UHF, ordered WTVD to select one network. Channel 11 decided to go with CBS full-time, allowing WRDU to become an exclusive NBC station (it

2542-480: The name "Breaking News One". WTVD also has a helicopter for newsgathering, which it refers to as "Chopper 11 HD". WTVD has also begun to implement a drone for newsgathering, which it dubs as "Drone 11". Principal anchor Larry Stogner began working with station in 1976 and served as weeknight anchor from 1982 to 2015. On January 23, he announced his retirement after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ; he died on October 3, 2016. His co-anchor for much of

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2604-409: The newly built studio building; however, the newsroom and a number of other key components had been rebuilt within a month. By that time, much of WTVD's operations had returned to normal, although it had resorted to temporary setups during the interim such as holding the newscasts in one of the meeting rooms that survived the fire unscathed. On March 18, 1985, WTVD's owner, Capital Cities, announced it

2666-504: The night of December 6, 1991, a helicopter carrying a pilot and three WTVD employees from a high school football game in Wilmington, North Carolina crashed when an engine bearing seized, killing three of the four people on board. Sports reporter Tony Debo, the only survivor, suffered a broken ankle; he was thrown free of the crash when his improperly installed seatbelt failed. The National Transportation Safety Board report published

2728-526: The number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the Research Triangle market. For most of the last four decades, WTVD has been a solid second in ratings across the market, behind WRAL. This is in contrast to most of its ABC stablemates (including sister stations WPVI-TV in Philadelphia and KFSN-TV in Fresno, California ), which dominate their markets' news ratings. However, WTVD

2790-442: The outage as well before the FCC forced TWC to restore service to those areas on May 2. In July 2010, Disney announced that it was involved in another carriage dispute with Time Warner Cable which involved four ABC owned-and-operated stations (including WTVD), Disney Channel and the networks of ESPN . If a deal was not in place, the entire Disney cluster would have been removed from Time Warner and Bright House cable systems across

2852-470: The paper in 2006 with its purchase of Knight Ridder. Beginning Oct. 30, 2023, the paper will have its print days reduced to two a week, Wednesdays and Sundays, and be delivered by U.S Postal. The Belleville News-Democrat has been featured on the television programs 60 Minutes , Dateline and Nightline , as an example of investigative reporting. In 2003, an article in Editor & Publisher called

2914-700: The passage of the All-Channel Receiver Act in 1961, but the available UHF frequencies were not thought to be nearly strong enough to cover a market that stretched from Chapel Hill in the west to Goldsboro in the east. This situation was similar to that of WAPI-TV (now WVTM-TV ) in Birmingham, Alabama . However, unlike WAPI-TV, WTVD managed to find room for The Ed Sullivan Show , the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson . Although

2976-485: The primary reasons for the filing. The newspaper employs approximately 280 people, plus about 75 at its weekly ancillary papers. The newsroom staff consists of 26 reporters, 12 editors, seven copy editors, four photographers, three newsroom assistants and an editorial cartoonist , (see: Glenn McCoy ). It publishes separate editions in Madison County and St. Clair County . The News-Democrat also publishes

3038-531: The provisions of the FCC's spectrum reallocation program, WTVD's transmissions moved to channel 9, while continuing to display virtual channel 11. In recent years, WTVD has been carried on cable in multiple areas outside of the Raleigh–Durham–Fayetteville media market . That includes cable systems within the Greensboro , Greenville , Myrtle Beach , and Wilmington markets in North Carolina, and

3100-521: The radio stations to new owners, and, so as to comply with an FCC rule in place then that prohibited TV and radio stations in the same market, but different ownership from sharing the same callsigns, changed the television stations' calls to WPVI-TV , WTNH-TV , and KFSN-TV respectively. The acquisitions of WPVI and WTNH gave them seven VHF stations, two stations over the FCC limit at the time, and WTEN and WSAZ-TV were respectively spun off by CapCities to Poole Broadcasting and Lee Enterprises not long after

3162-432: The then-owners of WTIK radio. In December 1953, the two sides agreed to join forces and operate the station under the joint banner Durham Broadcasting Enterprises. Originally christened with the "WTIK-TV" call letters, the station had to make a name change after the partners sold WTIK radio as a condition of the permit grant. Ownership chose WTVD and was granted the change, but they had to wait—the call sign had been used in

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3224-473: Was a very unusual arrangement for what was then a two-station market. The Triangle was, at least on paper, big enough even then to support three full network affiliates. However, the only other VHF license in the market, channel 4, had already been taken by National Educational Television outlet WUNC-TV . UHF TV broadcasting was not considered viable at the time. Not only were television manufacturers not required to include UHF tuning capability until 1964, with

3286-692: Was among the last stations to use the Cool Hand Luke "Tar Sequence" theme in its broadcasts (which was also used on WRAL for a period in the 1970s). However, the station debuted the theme soon after the Capital Cities/ABC merger and retired it in 1993. Like sister stations WABC, KABC, and KGO-TV , the theme was used only in the opens. On June 26, 2006, WTVD debuted a new primetime newscast for WB (now CW ) affiliate WLFL (channel 22) entitled Eyewitness News at 10 on WB 22 . This happened after WLFL's owner, Sinclair Broadcast Group , ended

3348-582: Was completed on January 3, 1986. Capital Cities/ABC retained ABC's radio and television combinations in New York City ( WABC , WABC-TV and WPLJ ), Los Angeles ( KABC , KABC-TV and KLOS ), Chicago ( WLS , WLS-FM and WLS-TV ), and San Francisco ( KGO and KGO-TV ), along with WMAL and WRQX-FM in Washington, D.C. ; CapCities' aforementioned television outlets and the Detroit, Providence, Marietta and Fort Worth radio stations; Fairchild Publications;

3410-491: Was forced to sell off some stations due to FCC ownership limits. Between them, ABC and CapCities owned more television stations than FCC rules allowed at the time. Also, the two companies owned several radio stations in the same markets. Of the former Capital Cities television stations, the new company opted to keep the outlets in Philadelphia, Houston, Durham, and Fresno. WFTS and ABC's WXYZ-TV in Detroit were divested as

3472-494: Was granted a permanent waiver from the FCC allowing it to keep WPVI-TV. Had the waiver request been denied, WXYZ-TV would have been retained. WPVI-TV and KTRK-TV had long been ABC affiliates (in fact, two of ABC's strongest affiliates), while WTVD and KFSN-TV, longtime CBS affiliates, respectively switched to ABC in August and September 1985. On the radio side, new owners were found for CapCities' WPAT stations ( Park Communications

3534-557: Was headed by former Vestron Video employee Jon Peisinger. In February 1993, the company formed a television production joint venture with Brillstein-Grey Entertainment to tap into their managed talent and to take advantage of relaxed production regulations. In July, CC/ABC purchased a majority ownership in animation studio DIC Animation City , forming a joint venture called DIC Entertainment L.P. Later in July, CC/ABC reorganized into 4 groups, ABC TV Network Group, CC/ABC Publishing Group,

3596-618: Was involved in a dispute with Disney. On September 11, 2023, the stations and their sister cable channels were restored by Charter Communications (the parent company of Spectrum) after the company and Disney reached an agreement. WTVD airs select college football games from the North Carolina Tar Heels , the Duke Blue Devils and the NC State Wolfpack through ESPN College Football on ABC . As

3658-507: Was purchasing ABC. Five months later, on August 4, 1985, WTVD traded networks with WRAL-TV and became an ABC affiliate. At that time, WTVD and WRAL-TV joined the small list of stations in the country that have held primary affiliations with all of the "Big Three" networks. The transaction was finalized on January 3, 1986, making WTVD an ABC owned-and-operated station , the first network-owned television station in North Carolina. In 1996, The Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC. On

3720-523: Was subsequently changed its name to Summa Video, and signed a deal with Paramount Home Video to handle distribution of the titles. In 1994, CC/ABC agreed to a $ 200 million seven-year television production joint venture with the original DreamWorks live-action studio . Also that year, CC/ABC formed a partnership with Brillstein/Grey Entertainment to launch Brillstein/Grey Communications. The Walt Disney Company announced that it would acquire Capital Cities/ABC in 1995. This merger of equals led to

3782-412: Was the buyer), WKBW (Price Communications, the new owner, changed its call letters to WWKB , which was necessitated due to an FCC regulation in effect then that forbade TV and radio stations in the same city, but with different owners from sharing the same call letters) and KLAC and KZLA-FM (to Malrite Communications), and ABC's WRIF-FM in Detroit (to a minority-owned concern), among others. The merger

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3844-674: Was very similar to the Action News format pioneered by sister station WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. The arrangement was similar to those used at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York , and KFSN-TV. For a time, all three stations used the same theme song, " Move Closer to Your World ", and a nearly identical opening sequence. WRAL was also using the Action News brand during that time period. It called its newscasts simply WTVD 11 News from 1984 to 1993. WTVD called itself NewsChannel 11 from 1993 to 2000, when it changed back to Eyewitness News . WTVD

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