

ABC was shared with WFMY until WGHP signed on in 1963. The station has always been affiliated with NBC. The pay has certainly improved, but it was a more enjoyable career than it has become now.

We were all scrambling around trying to make a living. There were three of us, and we all did multiple jobs - the weather, commercials, a teenage dance party. Johnny Beckman, an early employee, recalls working at WSJS-TV in those early years. The station at first was owned by a subsidiary of Piedmont Publishing, publishers of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel along with WSJS radio ( 600 AM and 104.1 FM, now WTQR), and Hollywood star Mary Pickford and her husband Buddy Rogers. It is the third-oldest surviving station in North Carolina, behind Charlotte's WBTV and Greensboro's WFMY-TV. The station began operation on Septemas WSJS-TV. 3 Cable and satellite carriage outside of the market.The Number 1 Choice for News in the Triad

Winston-Salem/ Greensboro/ High Point, North Carolina The station is carried on cable channel 11 in most parts of the market. Its transmitter is located on Sauratown Mountain in Stokes County, North Carolina. It is licensed to Winston-Salem and is currently owned by the Hearst Corporation. WXII-TV ( digital channel 31, virtual channel 12) is the NBC television station licensed for the Greensboro– High Point– Winston-Salem, North Carolina ( Piedmont Triad) designated market area.
