WRDC
| ATSC 3.0 station | |
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| City | Durham, North Carolina |
| Channels | |
| Branding | MyRDC; MyRDC28 |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| WLFL | |
| History | |
First air date | November 4, 1968 |
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Call sign meaning | Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 54963 | |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 624 m (2,047 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°40′29″N 78°31′39″W / 35.67472°N 78.52750°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | myrdctv |
WRDC (channel 28) is an independent television station licensed to Durham, North Carolina, United States, serving the Research Triangle area and having a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CW affiliate WLFL (channel 22). The two stations share studios in the Highwoods Office Park, just outside downtown Raleigh; WRDC's transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina.
Channel 28 is the third-oldest television station in the Triangle and was the market's NBC affiliate for its first 27 years of operation. It was perennially the third-rated station in the market and did not produce local newscasts for significant portions of its tenure with NBC, which contributed to the network moving to another station in the market, WNCN. After losing NBC in 1995, WRDC became a UPN affiliate, and has carried MyNetworkTV programming from 2006 onward.