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, recalled working at WSJS-TV in those early years: It took its calls from Piedmont Publishing's WSJS radio ( 600 AM and 104.1 FM, now WTQR), which in turn took them from the newspapers' initials. The station at first was owned by a partnership of Piedmont Publishing, publishers of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel, and Hollywood star Mary Pickford and her husband Charles "Buddy" Rogers.
It is the third-oldest surviving television station in North Carolina, behind Charlotte's WBTV and channel 12's rival in the Greensboro market, WFMY-TV. The station first signed on the air on Septemas WSJS-TV. WXII-TV and WCWG share studios on Coliseum Drive in Winston-Salem through a channel sharing agreement, the stations transmit using WXII-TV's spectrum from an antenna on Sauratown Mountain in Stokes County.
It is owned by Hearst Television alongside Lexington-licensed CW affiliate WCWG (channel 20). WXII-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, serving the Piedmont Triad region as an affiliate of NBC.
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