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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. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside Lexington licensed CW affiliate WCWG (channel 20). 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.

WXII presently broadcasts 38 1/2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 1/2 hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). Long a distant runner up to WFMY TV, channel 12's newscast ratings began to increase following a series of severe weather events in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, WXII has regularly traded the number one spot in the ratings with WFMY. On February 12, 2010, after the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, WXII began broadcasting its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen standard definition, becoming the third station to do so after WGHP and WFMY. In studio segments and news video was presented in widescreen. For a few months after the switch, weather graphics were still presented in the 4:3 format with blue colored pillarboxing, but were later upgraded to the 16:9 widescreen format. In 2012, WXII began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On August 13, 2012, WXII debuted a half hour 10 p. m. newscast on its MeTV affiliated subchannel on digital channel 12.2, to compete with the longer established hour long 10 p. m. newscast on Fox affiliate WGHP. On March 4, 2013, WXII started simulcasting its weeknight 6 p. m. newscast on its former sister radio station, WSJS. The two properties also entered into a news sharing agreement in which members of WSJS's reporting staff provide stories on WXII's newscasts while members of channel 12's news staff would also report for WSJS. On July 26, 2017, WXII announced that it would move its 10 p. m. newscast to its new sister station WCWG beginning July 31 and expanded it to a full hour on weeknights while remain as a half hour on weekends. On September 5, 2017, WXII added an hour long 4 p. m. newscast, expanding its early evening news block to two and a half hours from 4 to 6:30 p. m.

WXII TV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the FCC mandated transition to digital television for full power stations. The station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 31, using virtual channel 12. As part of the SAFER Act, WXII temporarily kept its analog signal on the air to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.

In recent years, WXII has been carried on cable in areas outside of the Greensboro television market including cable systems within the Charlotte market in North Carolina and the Roanoke market in Virginia. On DirecTV, WXII has been carried in multiple areas within the Roanoke market in Virginia.

In the 1970s and 1980s, WXII was once carried in Moore and Richmond counties.