chopper ever took off). Video of the accident was captured by competitor WXII-TV and was broadcast around the country. WFMY began using a new version of "Sky 2" (painted black) after the accident, but eventually retired the chopper altogether. On November 13, 2011, beginning with its 11 p.m. newscast, WFMY began broadcasting its newscasts in high definition. The station also introduced a new format for its newscasts titled News 2.0. On April 25, 2013, WFMY debuted a news/investigative program, 2 Wants To Know; it replaced a third daily airing of The Andy Griffith Show in that program's longtime 5:30 p.m. slot, a move which has angered some viewers, as indicated in stories in the Greensboro News & Record and the Winston-Salem Journal. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WFMY-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 51, using PSIP to display WFMY-TV's virtual channel as 2 on digital television receivers. On May 15, 2020, under the provisions of the FCC's spectrum reallocation program, WFMY's transmissions moved to channel 35, while continuing to display channel 2 as its virtual channel. Out-of-market cable and DirecTV carriage In recent years, WFMY has been carried on cable in multiple areas outside of the Greensboro television market including within the Charlotte, Raleigh and Roanoke, Virginia markets. On DirecTV, WFMY has been carried in multiple areas within the Raleigh and Roanoke markets. During the 1970s and 1980s through CATV, WFMY was once carried in Rockingham, Southern Pines, Henderson, Durham, and Roxboro in North Carolina, and Rocky Mount and Clifton Forge in Virginia. References External links Official website 1949 establishments in North Carolina CBS network affiliates True Crime Network affiliates Quest (American TV network) affiliates Twist (TV network) affiliates Tegna Inc. Television channels and stations established in 1949 FMY-TV Ion Mystery affiliates Former Gannett subsidiaries