CBS17 / WNCN (Raleigh)

CBS17 (WNCN, channel 17) is a commercial CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina, owned by Nexstar Media Group, one of the largest local-television station groups in the United States. The station serves the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market with local news and is rated minimally biased by independent analysts, relying on straight news reporting with no opinion programming. Its parent company, Nexstar, has taken steps at the corporate level to court the Trump administration's goodwill — tied to a pending merger with Tegna — but WNCN's local newscasts do not show a discernible partisan lean.