Local News Close-Up: News Battle Royale In Queen City Of Charlotte

WSOC still rules news in North Carolina’s largest market, but the ratings race is getting tighter.

DMA 22: CHARLOTTE, NC

WTVI Stays In Black Despite Lower Corporate Giving

DMA 22: CHARLOTTE, NC

Noncom WTVI Improves Its Financial Picture

DMA 24 (CHARLOTTE, NC)

WTVI Clicks Into Role As Lab For Students

WTVI Charlotte, N.C., was launched as an “educational” station 50 years ago this summer, and educational it is becoming again. The PBS affiliate, now run by Central Piedmont Community College, will become a laboratory for the college’s new associate degree program in broadcasting and production technology launching in August.

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DMA 24

Noncom WTVI Charlotte Cuts Its Deficit In Half

PLAYOUT (DMA 25: CHARLOTTE, NC)

WTVI Is 14th ‘Hub & Spoke’ Partner With Centralcast

DMA 25

Rentrak Providing Ratings To WTVI Charlotte

Rentrak Corp. today announced a multi-year local TV ratings contract with PBS affiliate WTVI Charlotte, N.C. (DMA 25). The new agreement makes WTVI the second station in Charlotte and the […]

DMA 25 (CHARLOTTE, NC)

Noncom WTVI’s Merger May Cost County $800,000

DMA 25 (CHARLOTTE, NC)

WTVI’s Fate Tied To Community College

Charlotte, N.C.’s struggling public television station says it could go out of business as early as this summer if a plan to turn it over to Central Piedmont Community College fails.

DMA 25

WTVI Charlotte In Merger Talks With College

Charlotte, N.C.’s struggling public TV station and Central Piedmont Community College are in preliminary talks about joining forces to keep WTVI on the air. Last year, the station — whose financial condition has turned perilous since the recession began to grip Charlotte in 2008 — ran a deficit of about $300,000. Fundraising is lagging by a couple hundred thousand dollars at the midpoint of this fiscal year, WTVI President Elsie Garner said Wednesday.