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"Q36" became known for frequent preemptions of NBC network fare, including the soap opera ''[[Texas (TV series)|Texas]]'',<ref name="texas">{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Mark |date=April 19, 1982 |title=The Readers Write: Put 'Texas' On |page=13A |work=The Charlotte Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65547790/ |access-date=December 18, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328182205/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65547790/the-readers-write-put-texas-on/ |url-status=live }}</ref> coverage of the [[1984 Democratic National Convention]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Mark |date=July 30, 1984 |title=Reader: WPCQ Often Deprives Charlotte Readers Of Programs |page=9A |work=The Charlotte Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45713213/reader-wpcq-often-deprives-charlotte/ |access-date=December 18, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328182205/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45713213/reader-wpcq-often-deprives-charlotte/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and network sporting events.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Mark |date=April 24, 1982 |title=Local TV Stations Not Good Sports |page=12A |work=The Charlotte Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65547336/ |access-date=December 18, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328182206/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65547336/local-tv-stations-not-good-sports/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It also delayed the [[David Brinkley]]-hosted ''NBC Magazine'' to midnight to air its own ''Action News Magazine''.{{r|texas|gamblehanna}} Even Westinghouse's own productions were not guaranteed an audience on the station; after two years of WPCQ-TV airing ''Hour Magazine'', it moved to WBTV in 1982.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 6, 1982 |title=Today On Television |page=15A |work=The Charlotte Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65548070/ |access-date=December 18, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328182206/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65548070/hour-magazine-to-wbtv/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Seeing little positive progress with WPCQ-TV, Westinghouse soon chose to use the station's low expectations to their advantage elsewhere in the company. Westinghouse had long extensively promoted from within and thus used WPCQ as the equivalent of a "[[farm team]]". Its more promising on-air personalities merely treated WPCQ as a stepping stone towards promotion to Group W's well-regarded heritage radio and television stations outside Charlotte.{{r|foothold}} When a union strike at the company's New York City all-news station [[WINS (AM)|WINS]] left it without announcers, Westinghouse sent WPCQ anchor Raiford there as part of a team of 20 employees from other Group W stations to keep it running.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Mark |date=March 19, 1982 |title=WPCQ News Anchor Replaces Striking New York Announcers |page=11B |work=The Charlotte Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45712916/wpcq-news-anchor-replaces-striking-new/ |access-date=December 18, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328182207/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45712916/wpcq-news-anchor-replaces-striking-new/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Talent often left for vacancies elsewhere in the company, such as when sports director Lou Tilley moved to Boston to become the weekend sports anchor at [[WBZ-TV]].<ref name="tilley">{{Cite news |last=Snow |first=Steve |date=May 20, 1982 |title=WPCQ's Lou Tilley moving to Boston TV station |page=1B |work=The Charlotte News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45712931/ |access-date=December 18, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313013132/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45712931/wpcqs-lou-tilley-moving-to-boston-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Amanda Davis (journalist)|Amanda Davis]], who had anchored the news three years for WPCQ-TV, became a correspondent for Group W's [[Satellite News Channel]] after turning down an offer to report for its Baltimore station, [[WJZ-TV]].<ref name="davis">{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Mark |date=October 11, 1982 |title='WBTV On The Job' Campaign To Pair Jobs With Job-Hunters |page=9A |work=The Charlotte Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65547700/ |access-date=December 18, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313013155/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65547700/wbtv-on-the-job-campaign-to-pair-jobs/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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==Newscasts==

WCNC-TV presently broadcasts 40½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6½ hours each weekday, and four hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, the station produces the hour-long entertainment and lifestyle program ''Charlotte Today'', which airs weekday mornings at 11:00 am and was started in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bethea |first=April |date=December 14, 2012 |title=Radio's Ramona now on TV |page=1B |work=The Charlotte Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66115303/ |access-date=December 26, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328182327/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66115303/radios-ramona-now-on-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref>