They will move their digital transmissions from 17 to 8, but they will retain 17 as their virtual (display) channel. Nine other stations in the Raleigh-Durham market will see similar changes:
4/WUNC (PBS) - 25 to 20
5/WRAL (NBC) - 48 to 17
11/WTVD (ABC) - 11 to 9
22/WLFL (CW) - 27 to 18
28/WRDC (My Network TV) - 28 to 14
30/WRAY (Religious) - will discontinue 20 and share with a station TBA
40/WUVC (Univision) - 38 to 22
47/WRPX (Ion) - 15 to 32
50/WRAZ (Fox) - 49 to 15
62/WFPX (Ion) - will discontinue 36 and share with a station TBA