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98-619: WBTS-CD (channel 15), branded as NBC10 Boston , is a Class A television station licensed to Nashua, New Hampshire , United States, serving as the NBC outlet for the Boston area. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Merrimack, New Hampshire –licensed Telemundo station WNEU (channel 60); it is also sister to regional cable news channel New England Cable News (NECN) and regional sports network NBC Sports Boston . The four outlets share studios at

196-492: A Charlie Rose -moderated Republican presidential debate at Dartmouth College on October 11, 2011, in association with Bloomberg and The Washington Post , as well as one gubernatorial and two congressional debates at its Derry studios in partnership with various New Hampshire newspapers and AARP in October 2012. The station also aired a daily INN-produced half-hour political newscast, Campaign Countdown , at 5 p.m. during

294-446: A local programming and marketing agreement with another NBCUniversal subsidiary—WBTS Television, LLC —to operate WTMU-LP. The sale was approved by the FCC on October 28, 2016, and completed on November 4, 2016. The acquisition, though not specifying WTMU-LP, was announced as part of NBC's coverage plan. The station's call letters were changed to WBTS-LD on October 6, 2016; on October 25,

392-520: A Portsmouth bureau. On September 29, 2011, WBIN debuted a new half-hour weeknight newscast. Known as News at 10 on WBIN , the show was produced in partnership with the Davenport, Iowa -based Independent News Network (INN). The news anchor and meteorologist were provided by the centralized news operation and other personnel from INN filled-in as necessary. WBIN maintained three local reporters who contributed relevant Southern New Hampshire content. All of

490-471: A Telemundo station for Providence, leaving WBTS-CD as the sole NBC station for the Boston area. As a programming strategy, that just mystifies me. If you have four McDonald's on the block, why would you want to build another one? Concurrent with the launch, NBC Boston debuted a full suite of local newscasts. Early reviews found the news effort competitive with Boston's established local TV newsrooms but noted that

588-598: A channel sharing agreement with WGBX-TV (channel 44) for the station; NBC agreed to purchase the channel share agreement and the WYCN-CD license in October 2017. In December 2017, the station announced on its website that it would "cease broadcasting on its current frequency on January 16, 2018 and begin broadcasting NBC Boston on a new frequency." As WYCN's signal overlaps with WGME-TV in Portland, Maine , which also uses virtual channel 13, WYCN began using virtual channel 15 following

686-556: A channel sharing agreement with channel 66 (then WUTF-DT); the WBIN-TV license was subsequently sold by Carlisle One Media, a company controlled by Bill Binnie , to WUNI's owner, Univision Communications. The channel 50 allocation in the Boston market originally belonged to WXPO-TV , which launched in October 1969. It operated from two studios: its offices and master production facilities were located on Dutton Street in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts ; however, its transmitter and "main" studio

784-404: A channel with WGBX-TV, a full-power TV station in Boston, giving it a full-market signal; the original WBTS-LD then became WYCN-LD and was moved to Providence, Rhode Island , as a Telemundo station. NBC10 Boston debuted local newscasts from its first day on air, utilizing the resources of the existing NECN–WNEU operation; NBC hired longtime Boston TV meteorologist Pete Bouchard concurrent with

882-525: A company controlled by Bill Binnie , announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase WZMY-TV. The sale was completed on May 17; ten days later, the call letters were changed to WBIN-TV. It also dropped the "My TV New England" branding (becoming one of a number of MyNetworkTV affiliates to not feature the programming service's branding), choosing to refer to itself using its call letters. Binnie originally indicated that WBIN-TV would retain its affiliations with MyNetworkTV and Universal Sports; however,

980-471: A company controlled by William H. Binnie , in 2010; by this point, control of the stations had passed to longtime WYCN staffers Gordon Jackson and Carolyn Choate following the death of Robert Rines. The deal was completed January 3, 2012; in the meantime, Binnie would also acquire WBIN-TV (channel 50, now WWJE-DT ) in Derry . As a result of the sale, much of WYCN's community programming, including aldermatic debates,

1078-402: A full-market affiliation on the second subchannel of WSBK-TV. On August 8, 2019, WBTS-LD (channel 8) and WYCN-CD swapped call signs, with channel 8 becoming WYCN-LD and channel 15 changing to WBTS-CD. On August 31, 2019, WYCN-LD left the air in advance of its October 2019 transmitter move to Norton, Massachusetts , and city of license change to Providence, Rhode Island ; WYCN-LD now serves as

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1176-570: A leased helicopter. A second former WCVB anchor, J. C. Monahan , left that station to join NBC Boston in July 2017. A year after the switch and launch, NBC10 Boston and WHDH had opposite ratings performances. WHDH had largely maintained its news audience, including first- and second-place finishes in the morning and at 5 and 6 p.m. Meanwhile, NBC10 frequently ranked fifth out of five stations, though marquee fall network programming provided an improvement in

1274-467: A leased helicopter. A second former WCVB anchor, J. C. Monahan , left that station to join NBC Boston in July 2017. A year after the switch and launch, NBC10 Boston and WHDH had opposite ratings performances. WHDH had largely maintained its news audience, including first- and second-place finishes in the morning and at 5 and 6 p.m. Meanwhile, NBC10 frequently ranked fifth out of five stations, though marquee fall network programming provided an improvement in

1372-662: A locally produced talk show hosted by singer-comedian Bucky Lewis. After the station's relaunch as WZMY-TV, much of its local programming consisted of visits to businesses around the region, in a format known as "My Shows". The original show under this format was My New England , but variants focusing on specific topics were subsequently added, such as My Premier Bride and My Good Health and My Home and Garden . Additionally, several local businesses (particularly car dealerships, but sometimes other businesses such as Dollar Bill's Discount World) produced programs that appeared on weekend mornings; those programs had also appeared on WNDS. At

1470-533: A minor celebrity in Southern New Hampshire. As a result of his popularity, he appeared as a "Guest Meteorologist" on The Weather Channel 's Abrams & Bettes: Beyond the Forecast on November 10, 2006. He had worked for WNDS/WZMY for his whole career. However, as a result of the station's December 2009 cutbacks, Kaprielian was laid off from the station, with his final day on-air occurring on December 31 ; as

1568-613: A nightly 10 p.m. talk show, for local news. Ansin later revealed that he had turned down a $ 200 million offer from NBC for the station in September 2015. On October 1, 2015, The Boston Globe reported that NBC had considered moving the affiliation to NECN rather than to a broadcast channel, though this was seen as impractical for legal reasons and because NECN's coverage extended beyond the Boston market. On December 15, 2015, New England One reported, citing internal sources, that NBCUniversal had declined to renew its affiliation with WHDH and

1666-542: A partnership with Hearst Television before Comcast bought out Hearst in 2009. In 2014, it ended the agreement with ZGS in Boston and took full control of WNEU. Over the course of the early 2010s, NBC made major investments in its Boston-area operations. The two stations moved into a new facility in Newton, Massachusetts , and in August 2015, WNEU debuted local newscasts for the first time in its history. This prompted speculation in

1764-540: A result, the station discontinued its weather updates. Kaprielian returned to WBIN-TV on August 20, 2012, providing hourly forecasts from 2 to 9 p.m.; he also provided forecasts for Binnie Media's radio stations. Kaprielian left the station in 2015. Soon after the sale to Carlisle One, the station announced plans to re-establish a local news department, including a bureau at Carlisle One's headquarters in Portsmouth; rival ABC affiliate WMUR-TV (channel 9) already operated

1862-676: A subchannel on WMFP in Lawrence . The NBC affiliation switch in Boston also affected many cable systems in Atlantic Canada , which use Boston-market TV stations to provide the major U.S. networks. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) received an application from Bell Canada to distribute WBTS in November 2016; the request was approved by the CRTC on December 20, 2016, and on January 1, 2017, NBC Boston replaced WHDH on

1960-441: A trademark in mid-2005 for use of the "MyTV" name, it was speculated that WZMY would take legal action against News Corporation over its similar name. Ultimately on July 21, 2006, WZMY's My TV Club newsletter announced that the station would become the region's MyNetworkTV affiliate – giving channel 50 the first network affiliation in its history – this was later revealed on July 24 to the media and visitors to WZMY's website, and to

2058-506: A variety of cable and satellite systems in the region. NBC Boston assumed the NBC affiliation at 3:00 a.m. on January 1, 2017. The preceding night, its news anchors, Phil Lipof and Shannon Mulaire, led coverage of Boston's First Night New Year's Eve festivities. Analysts described NBC's move as a gamble given the ratings strength of WHDH and the need to educate viewers on where NBC programming could be seen, particularly given that there

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2156-663: A weeknight 90-minute early evening news block at 5 p.m. and a nightly 10 p.m. newscast on September 15, 2014 under the NH1 News Network branding, based out of the newsroom in the Walker School building in Concord and the Nashua, Derry, Portsmouth, Laconia, and Lebanon news bureaus; WBIN also produced a weekly magazine program on Sunday mornings, and the news operation supplies half-hourly newscasts to Binnie Media's radio stations. While

2254-613: Is operated separately from WUNI's joint sales agreement (JSA) with Entravision Communications –owned UniMás affiliate WUTF-TV (channel 27) in Worcester . WWJE formerly broadcast local newscasts from a studio located in Concord , branded as the NH1 News Network or NH1 News . Besides WBIN, sister radio station WNNH also used the NH1 News branding from August 2015 to August 2017. WBIN-TV

2352-499: The Herald that the station still expected its NBC affiliation to be renewed, while NBCUniversal again declined to comment. On January 7, 2016, Valari Staab, president of NBC Owned Television Stations, confirmed that NBC had declined to renew its affiliation with WHDH beyond the end of 2016 and would launch NBC Boston on January 1, 2017. Staab cited NBC's investments in NECN and WNEU as providing

2450-576: The MyTV Now title. WZMY dissolved its news department completely (with the exception of weather) in November 2007, after Nicole Papageorge and Mike DeBlasi (the longest-tenured on-air employee after Kaprielian) departed the station. As a result, WZMY eliminated all daily news cut-ins, political commentary, and locally produced public affairs programming. Channel 50 was well known in New England for meteorologist Al Kaprielian. His quirky, offbeat style made him

2548-620: The University of New Hampshire in association with Pack Network) Merrimack Warriors hockey , and the UMass Minutemen . The Language of Business , a locally produced business newsmagazine, began airing on WBIN-TV on June 5, 2016. Soon after signing-on in the fall of 1983, WNDS began airing nightly newscasts at 6 and 10 p.m. The news staff included news anchor Larry Sparano, sportscaster Doug Brown , and meteorologist Al Kaprielian . The weekend newscasts were dropped in 1985, followed by

2646-520: The 10 p.m. edition was cut down to 10 minutes. In addition to the full newscasts, some news/weather updates as well as standalone weather updates from chief meteorologist Al Kaprielian were provided throughout the day. When the station was relaunched as WZMY-TV, the 10 p.m. newscast was dropped entirely; the early evening newscast was renamed MyTV Now and aired weeknights from 7:30 to 8 p.m. An additional 60-minute news and commentary program, MyTV Prime , aired from 9 to 10 p.m. On March 10, 2006, however,

2744-615: The Boston market were pay television subscribers, and NBC would "continue to look for how we can improve over-the-air service". On November 10, the stations launched a transitional programming service branded as Countdown NBC Boston . Designed to promote the switch and assist viewers in locating NBC Boston's over-the-air channels, the service featured NBC Boston's future syndicated programming, programs from Cozi TV , and newscasts from NECN. The NBC Boston website and social media outlets were also launched at this time. To further improve coverage, on December 12, NBC announced that it had leased

2842-645: The Boston–based Academy of Law Sciences, the station aired local community programming for the Nashua area, along with programming that was already being sold to cable stations though the Yankee Communications Network. Channel 13 changed its callsign to WYCN-LP on April 8, 1996. Its tower in the analog era of television was on the campus of Rivier University , between two above-ground reservoirs and Brassard Hall, with studios in Memorial Hall on

2940-480: The FCC's spectrum incentive auction for $ 68.2 million; concurrently, the station's "remaining television license rights" would be acquired by an undisclosed "major television group" for an estimated $ 10–30 million in what it described as a "channel-sharing sale". In a statement, Bill Binnie said that the sale "makes WBIN-TV one of the most valuable media properties in the history of New Hampshire media." Binnie Media also announced that WBIN-TV would "cease broadcasting in

3038-716: The NBCU Boston Media Center on B Street in Needham, Massachusetts . WBTS-CD is broadcast by full-power WGBX-TV (channel 44) from its transmitter site on Cedar Street, also in Needham, giving it full coverage of the Boston television market . It is branded as channel 10 owing to its primary cable channel position. The license started in Nashua on January 29, 1988, as W13BG "TV13 Nashua", a low-power community television station which later changed its call sign to WYCN-LP in 1996. Its programming consisted of local-service programming for

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3136-401: The Nashua area and content already aired by local cable systems as well as, later on, FamilyNet . WYCN-LP and associated translators were sold to New Hampshire 1 Network, a company controlled by William H. Binnie , in 2010. Three years later, Binnie sold WYCN-LP to OTA Broadcasting , which removed remaining local content and converted the station to digital broadcasting. OTA Broadcasting sold

3234-639: The New Hampshire and Massachusetts region), Sports Wrap (a sports talk show discussing Boston sports), and WNDS News Up Front (a local newsmagazine ). When regular programming was restored in June, these three shows were not resurrected. In addition, during the early 2000s, channel 50 ran a public affairs program titled Capitol Ideas hosted by Arnie Arnesen . Friday Night Chaos , a 30-minute weekly show from independent wrestling promotion Chaotic Wrestling , aired on WNDS from 2001 to 2002. The station also aired

3332-554: The Revolution (a spotlight on the New England Revolution ), AFO Proving Grounds , Animation Nation , Boston Ruit , theGreenScreen.tv , AsianBoston TV , and Iron Brides , a reality competition show featuring brides-to-be. Many of these programs were produced in collaboration with independent production companies through what the station referred to as "MyTV New England Studios". Some of these programs were retained following

3430-524: The accompanying analog signals left the air on January 3, 2012, to accommodate the construction of these signals. Since December 28, 2012, the stations were broadcasting under special temporary authority from a tower at the WBIN studios in Derry while constructing their permanent facilities in order to maintain their broadcast licenses. All three stations were shut down October 4, 2017, and surrendered their licenses

3528-576: The air in advance of its October 2019 transmitter move to Norton, Massachusetts , and city of license change to Providence, Rhode Island . NBCUniversal announced in March 2017 that it would vacate the Newton property and build a new facility for its Boston operation—NBC Boston, WNEU, NECN, and CSN New England (now NBC Sports Boston )—in a former General Dynamics plant in Needham . The regional sports network had previously been located in separate facilities from

3626-567: The air on September 5, 1983, as WNDS, an independent station known on-air as "The Winds of New England." It was owned by CTV of Derry, a company not related to the CTV Television Network in Canada. The program included some cartoons like Scooby-Doo and Super Friends in the morning hours, religious shows like The 700 Club late in the morning, sitcoms on midday afternoons, cartoons for an hour or so after 3 p.m., more sitcoms in

3724-430: The announcement of the spectrum sale; by December 2017, the station's schedule consisted primarily of Antenna TV programming, with the talk show Harry (which also aired on NBC Boston) serving as its last syndicated program. Univision's purchase of the station was completed on December 21, 2017; the station then became a Justice Network affiliate. The call letters were changed to WWJE-DT on January 12, 2018. Antenna TV

3822-408: The basis for the company to launch its own NBC station in the market. At the time, no specifics were given as to broadcast carriage for the new NBC Boston service. Sunbeam mounted a defense of its NBC affiliation in public. In court, Ansin argued that WNEU's transmitter, which was not centrally located at the time, did not provide adequate coverage and served 4 million fewer people. Shortly before

3920-516: The broadcast stations and NECN. The 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m ), $ 125 million NBCU Boston Media Center opened in February 2020. As a programming strategy, that just mystifies me. If you have four McDonald's on the block, why would you want to build another one? Concurrent with the launch, NBC Boston debuted a full suite of local newscasts. Early reviews found the news effort competitive with Boston's established local TV newsrooms but noted that

4018-738: The broadcasts originated from INN's Davenport studios. There was no regularly-scheduled sports report. The station maintained additional partnerships with the Boston Globe (which originally provided headlines through an on-screen ticker), the Nashua Telegraph , and Bloomberg . WBIN indicated plans to further expand its newscast offerings, including long-range plans for a morning newscast; Binnie stated his intention to construct "a public affairs infrastructure that will attract people who are serious about news in New Hampshire." In addition to News at 10 , WBIN-TV sponsored several debates, including

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4116-469: The coming months", with proceeds from the sale going toward the acquisition of additional digital, outdoor, and radio assets. On May 4, 2017, WBIN-TV filed to channel-share with WUTF-DT (channel 66, now WUNI ). In the channel sharing agreement, reached on January 11, 2016, the stations agreed to grant put and call rights that could result in WUTF's owner, Univision Local Media, acquiring the WBIN license; under

4214-407: The commencement of channel sharing, as WGME's post-auction physical channel is 15 (WGME's pre-auction channel, 38, was not available to WYCN as virtual channel 38 is assigned to WSBK-TV ). The sale to NBC was completed on January 18, 2018; the station began channel sharing with WGBX the same day. Before this transition, WYCN-CD was affiliated with Heroes & Icons (H&I), which also maintained

4312-465: The company had agreed not to reduce over-the-air coverage of NBC or use its cable holdings to influence affiliation negotiations. On May 16, 2016, the lawsuit was dismissed; the judge found that the signal issue was "not a concern that WHDH has standing to redress" and noted, "[A]bsent any actionable harm attributable to Comcast, it is simply an indurate consequence of doing business in a competitive and unsentimental marketplace." During this time, it

4410-460: The day due to RF interference with the cameras. Advertisers were scared off when the Lowell Sun blacklisted anyone who bought commercials on the station. Bills went unpaid for several months. By early 1970, 90% of the station's staff was removed from the payroll, although many continued with the station, believing it could pull through. The Lowell studio was closed down that spring; finally, in June

4508-529: The deal did not include the channel 21 license or WNHT's CBS affiliation. In the 1990s, the station increased cartoons a bit and began running more recent sitcoms and drama shows . In 1996, WNDS added programming from the Global Shopping Network (GSN) overnights. In January 1997, the station began running Global Shopping Network programming 15 hours a day, with entertainment programming continuing from 3 to 11 p.m. On April 5, 1997, GSN began programming

4606-559: The end of 1985. The station also covered live local sports, including high school football , college hockey and minor league baseball . WNDS also ran a candlepin bowling show each weekend at noon called Candlepin Stars and Strikes , which aired from 1984 until August 2005. Prior to affiliating with the Global Shopping Network in April 1997, WNDS also ran three additional shows: High School Sports Review (which provided high school sports news in

4704-488: The evenings and late nights, and a movie in prime time. Sitcoms came from the Viacom and Paramount libraries, including such well-known series as I Love Lucy , The Brady Bunch , Happy Days , Laverne and Shirley and The Andy Griffith Show , among others. The station acquired some of the programming assets of WNHT (channel 21, frequency now occupied by WPXG-TV ) in 1989 after that station shut down on March 31;

4802-463: The following day, the station laid off most of the news staff concurrent with the announcement of the sale of the station's spectrum in the FCC spectrum auction. In a statement, Binnie Media said that NH1 News would continue operations on radio and online. The station's ATSC 1.0 channel is carried on the multiplexed signal of ABC affiliate WCVB-TV : WWJE-DT (as WZMY-TV) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 50, on December 1, 2008, which

4900-427: The general public on July 26. Until the announcements were made, Boston and Southern New Hampshire had been the largest market where MyNetworkTV had not yet signed a full-time affiliate. With WZMY affiliating with MyNetworkTV upon the network's launch on September 5, 2006, the station continued to use its "My TV" branding, though the logo was changed to reflect MyNetworkTV's logo scheme (a different logo had been in use in

4998-475: The industry that NBC was preparing to take the network affiliation from WHDH (channel 7) after its existing agreement expired at the end of 2016. In a feature article, Broadcasting & Cable described Boston as a "treasured quarry" for NBC and noted that WHDH's owner, Sunbeam Television president Edmund Ansin , had no desire to sell. There had been disagreements between NBC and WHDH, most notably in 2009 when Ansin threatened to preempt The Jay Leno Show ,

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5096-495: The latter portion of the 2012 election season . On February 6, 2012, WBIN began airing the syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz from 6 to 9 a.m. At the time, the station planned to add a political show to its lineup by 2014. WBIN-TV moved its news operation to the former Walker School in Concord in 2014 (the remainder of the station's operations remained in Derry), with the school's auditorium being repurposed for debates held by

5194-596: The launch of NBC Boston was confirmed, Ansin told The Globe , "No network has elected to give up such a strong station and go to a startup station". On March 10, 2016, Sunbeam Television sued Comcast in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts , arguing that moving NBC to WNEU would violate antitrust law by strengthening its near-monopoly position in the market as well as Federal Communications Commission (FCC)–imposed conditions on Comcast's acquisition of NBC, as

5292-452: The launch of the digital signal, the analog channel 13 signal was shut down. Until January 2018, WYCN-CD's original digital transmitter was 625 feet (0.191 km) off Trigate Road in rural Hudson, southeast of Nashua. The station's pre-auction digital signal broadcast on UHF channel 36, using virtual channel 13. WYCN-CD sold its frequency rights as part of the FCC's spectrum auction for $ 80.4 million. OTA Broadcasting entered into

5390-517: The new call sign WBTS-LD. NBC Boston began broadcasting on January 1, 2017, on WTMU-LP and subchannels of WNEU and WMFP to provide full regional coverage. It became known as NBC10 Boston, reflecting its cable channel, after its first year on air. After the 2017 broadcast incentive auction , NBC acquired an additional low-power TV license in the Boston area, the former WYCN-CD in Nashua, New Hampshire . This license had sold its spectrum and agreed to share

5488-754: The new newscasts competed against the longer-established WMUR-TV news operation, Lee Kinberg, the executive vice president of NH1 News Network , stated that the newscasts were "very different from Channel 9," and included more coverage of the Seacoast Region compared to WMUR. WBIN's newscasts also emphasized coverage of politics, with former Nashua Telegraph State House reporter Kevin Landrigan serving as chief political correspondent and longtime CNN political editor Paul Steinhauser becoming NH1 ' s political director on January 1, 2015; Atkinson has said that "We want to own politics in New Hampshire." In addition to

5586-431: The only local news content on the station. The station also laid off two of its three reporters. The cancellation did not impact WBIN's plans for the former Walker School; Binnie stated in August 2013 that "it's more important to make a wholesale commitment, which we will do with NH1 Network," while Robb Atkinson, WBIN's news director, would subsequently concede that "we weren't happy with the quality." The station debuted

5684-520: The power company pulled the plug at the Windham studios during a Maverick rerun, taking WXPO off the air. On July 17, 1973, channel 50 returned to the air with a test transmission, with plans to return the station to the air later that year, possibly as New Hampshire's CBS affiliate. Those plans never materialized, and the WXPO-TV license was deleted in 1975. The current iteration of channel 50 signed on

5782-498: The relaunch as WBIN-TV, though Quiet Desperation was dropped following the sale to Carlisle One due to concerns over the program's content, and Scorch's PFG-TV and the local history show Regional Chronicles subsequently moved to WMFP. Following Carlisle One Media's acquisition of the station, WBIN-TV announced that it would offer increased coverage of high school, college, and professional sports; this includes telecasts of New Hampshire Wildcats hockey and basketball (produced by

5880-538: The relocation of the former WBTS-LD license, now WYCN-LD , to serve the Providence, Rhode Island , area. The station came to the air at 8   p.m. on January 29, 1988, as W13BG on VHF channel 13 in Nashua; its license was granted on July 29. Founded by Robert Rines and owned by Center Broadcasting Corporation of New Hampshire, a non-profit partnership between the Concord –based Franklin Pierce Law Center and

5978-404: The same campus. WYCN-LP was nearly dropped by Harron Cable on its Nashua-area systems in October 1999 to accommodate a must-carry request by WMFP (channel 62), a move that could have led to the closure of channel 13 even though its carriage on MediaOne in Nashua itself was not affected. Its carriage was ultimately continued by Adelphia Communications following its purchase of Harron, though

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6076-600: The second half of 2017. One reason for the poor performance was loyalty to existing stations in the Boston market. WWJE-DT WWJE-DT (channel 50) is a television station licensed to Derry, New Hampshire , United States, serving the Boston area as an affiliate of True Crime Network . It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside Marlborough, Massachusetts –licensed Univision - owned station WUNI (channel 66). The two stations share main studios and transmitter facilities on Parmenter Road in Hudson, Massachusetts . WWJE

6174-434: The second half of 2017. One reason for the poor performance was loyalty to existing stations in the Boston market. NBC10 Boston Beginning in 2015, speculation emerged that corporate parent NBCUniversal was interested in taking the affiliation in Boston from its affiliate of 20 years, WHDH (channel 7), after it expired at the end of 2016. NBCUniversal already owned New England Cable News and WNEU, whose transmitter

6272-436: The spectrum underlying WYCN-CD in the FCC's 2017 incentive auction . Without a transmitter, the station arranged to share the transmitter of WGBX-TV, giving it full-power coverage in the Boston market. OTA Broadcasting then sold WYCN-CD to NBC, whose NBC Boston service had launched at the start of 2017 on several transmitters but lacked a single primary signal. The station changed call signs to WBTS-CD in 2019 in anticipation of

6370-973: The station adopted a "Branded Entertainment" model, focusing on local product placement. Most of the station's local programming during this time, in addition to the remaining "My Shows"-formatted programs, included 30-minute wrestling show from the Massachusetts-based "Big Time Wrestling" promotion (which aired on the station from May 1, 2009, until moving to WMFP in December 2010), Scorch's PFG-TV (a talk show hosted by WGIR-FM personality Scorch), The Chef's Plate (which showcases New Hampshire's top chefs creating their signature dishes), The Steve Katsos Show (also aired on sister station WPME in Portland), Debra Crosby's Talent Quest TV Show , Quiet Desperation (a reality comedy series based in Allston, Massachusetts ), Inside

6468-658: The station announced on June 15 that it would leave MyNetworkTV and become an independent again as part of an increased local emphasis, with the service's programming moving to WSBK-TV (channel 38) on September 19, while Universal Sports restructured itself into a cable- and satellite-only channel in January 2012, then shut down in October 2015. Nonetheless, the station added an additional subchannel, carrying TheCoolTV , in October 2011; additionally, it replaced Universal Sports with Live Well Network on January 1, 2012. In July 2012, WBIN-TV terminated its affiliation with TheCoolTV; it

6566-580: The station full-time with a 24-hour home shopping format as part of a planned purchase of the station. However, GSN soon ran into financial problems; after it missed a payment for the station, CTV of Derry canceled the sale and reverted WNDS to its previous general entertainment format that June. CTV held onto channel 50 until 2004, when it sold the station to Shooting Star Broadcasting. Soon after assuming control, in August 2005, Shooting Star Broadcasting announced that WNDS would change its call letters to WZMY-TV and its branding to "My TV" . At that time,

6664-497: The station overhauled its schedule, based on viewer responses on the old WNDS website. The changes were implemented on-air on September 26, 2005. On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of a new network called MyNetworkTV , which created in response to another upstart network that was also set to launch that September, The CW (an amalgamated network that originally consisted primarily of UPN and The WB 's higher-rated programs). Since WZMY had already filed

6762-454: The station received FCC approval to change its major virtual channel to 8. On November 1, 2016, NBCUniversal officially announced that it would broadcast its NBC Boston on WBTS-LD and a subchannel of WNEU, as well as details surrounding the station's launch programming and news department. General manager Mike St. Peter pointed out that, although the two stations combined would not have the same over-the-air coverage as WHDH, 97% of viewers in

6860-593: The station that it would be dropped from its lineup as of August 15 due to the earlier cessation of local programming, as well as its limited broadcast reach and continued analog broadcasting, even though WYCN had a construction permit to convert to digital operations and increase its broadcast range. Comcast subsequently pushed back the date of the removal to September 3, despite protests from viewers, politicians, and Nashua's public access station. Due to its low power, WYCN's analog signal reached only portions of Nashua, its city of license . In contrast, its digital signal

6958-407: The station was dropped for a time in 2000 after an additional must-carry request, from WYDN (channel 48), while Adelphia rebuilt the systems. By August 11, 2000, WYCN-LP had been authorized to carry programming from FamilyNet . WYCN-LP, along with three co-owned translators in Nashua, Manchester , and Concord, was sold by Center Broadcasting Corporation of New Hampshire to New Hampshire 1 Network,

7056-474: The station's launch. It has generally struggled in local news ratings since its debut. NBC came into possession of two Boston-market media assets in the 2000s and early 2010s. In 2002, it acquired channel 60 in Merrimack, New Hampshire , then WPXB-TV, from Paxson Communications Corporation . The $ 26 million transaction came about because NBC had a right of first refusal on the station. Channel 60 became WNEU and

7154-439: The station's programming was also seen on three translators in southern New Hampshire. All three stations were owned by New Hampshire 1 Network, Inc., a sister company to Carlisle One Media that previously owned WYCN-CD in Nashua, New Hampshire (now NBC O&O WBTS-CD ); historically co-owned with that station, the three repeaters were not included in a subsequent sale of WYCN. All three facilities were construction permits ;

7252-545: The station. The building, which was acquired by Binnie Media at auction from the Concord School District on November 15, 2012, also houses Binnie's Concord radio stations as well as Binnie Media's offices. WBIN also established bureaus throughout New Hampshire, including Laconia (at a former police station ), Manchester , and Lebanon , in addition to Derry and Portsmouth. WBIN-TV ended its INN-produced newscast on April 26, 2013, leaving Kaprielian's forecasts as

7350-465: The style—more in line with traditional major-market network affiliates than the flashy approach characteristic of WHDH—was not innovative and similar to other stations. The staff consisted of a blend of new hires, younger than anchors at other stations, and existing NECN talent, as well as Pete Bouchard and Phil Lipof, previously of WCVB . To the existing resources of NECN and WNEU, NBC added approximately 80 employees, new vehicles for weather coverage, and

7448-464: The style—more in line with traditional major-market network affiliates than the flashy approach characteristic of WHDH—was not innovative and similar to other stations. The staff consisted of a blend of new hires, younger than anchors at other stations, and existing NECN talent, as well as Pete Bouchard and Phil Lipof, previously of WCVB . To the existing resources of NECN and WNEU, NBC added approximately 80 employees, new vehicles for weather coverage, and

7546-479: The terms of the agreement, Univision would be required to change WBIN-TV's call letters as a condition of the sale. Univision exercised its option to buy the WBIN-TV license for $ 16,764,133.70 on May 8, 2017. WBIN-TV ceased broadcasting on channel 35 on September 15, 2017, and began to share channel 27 with WUTF-DT; as of September 2017 , only WBIN's main channel is broadcast using virtual channel 50. WBIN-TV began phasing out its syndicated programming following

7644-447: The time of the relaunch, two other local programs also existed: a talk show entitled MyTV Prime (which originally aired from 9 to 10 p.m. and later from 8 to 9:30 p.m.), and Wild World (a review of action sports around the region, which was produced by Dan Egan). However, the station subsequently discontinued these shows from its lineup (although Wild World was still produced for other outlets). In its later years as "My TV",

7742-413: The time of the sale, WYCN was affiliated with My Family TV . The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the sale on March 22, and it was completed on May 20. WYCN-LP resumed producing local programming soon after the sale to OTA Broadcasting, rehiring Gordon Jackson and Carolyn Choate as station managers; however, in June 2013, Comcast (successor to both Harron/Adelphia and MediaOne) informed

7840-528: The transmitter of WGBX-TV , a full-power Boston signal. The sale of WYCN-CD to NBC was completed on January 18, 2018; the station began channel-sharing with WGBX the same day. The WMFP simulcast ended at midnight on April 1, 2018; WMFP began channel sharing with WWDP on September 7. The feed on WYCN-CD was assigned major channel number 15. On August 8, 2019, WBTS-LD (channel 8) and WYCN-CD swapped call signs, with channel 8 becoming WYCN-LD and channel 15 changing to WBTS-CD . On August 31, 2019, WYCN-LD left

7938-402: The two programs were consolidated into a new, 90-minute version of MyTV Prime that aired from 8 to 9:30 p.m. News was no longer provided outside of that program. By July 2006, channel 50 had discontinued MyTV Prime in favor of sitcom reruns . Weather updates from Al Kaprielian were still provided each hour from noon to midnight; for a time, these were accompanied by news updates that used

8036-401: The weeknight editions by 1986. On September 28, 1998, WNDS debuted News Now , consisting of newscasts at 7 and 10 p.m. weeknights, as well as weekend afternoons (the latter of which were dropped by early 2002). By 2003, the 11:57 a.m. weekday news update was expanded into a half-hour newscast at noon. Shortly after Shooting Star bought the station, the noon broadcast was discontinued, and

8134-475: The weeknight newscasts, the station announced its intention to launch a four-hour morning newscast and an hour-long noon newscast by 2015. Initially, the 10 p.m. half-hour weekend newscast didn't debut with the news department, but it did launch on October 25, 2014. The first new weekday newscast to launch since the founding of the news operation was NH1 News at 6:30 , which debuted on September 21, 2015. WBIN-TV aired its final newscasts on February 16, 2017;

8232-498: The year following the 2005 relaunch). In December 2009, the station laid off seven employees as part of strategy change to streamline operations and change some of the programming options to be more hyperlocal. Operation of WZMY was taken over by New Age Media, LLC , making it a sister station to WPXT and WPME in Portland, Maine . The station added a digital subchannel affiliated with Universal Sports in June 2010. On March 3, 2011, Portsmouth -based Carlisle One Media, Inc.,

8330-518: Was WMFP, which entered into a channel sharing agreement with WWDP, whose signal is marginal in Boston and other areas to the north. On October 18, 2017, NBC agreed to purchase WYCN-CD , a Nashua, New Hampshire –based Class A station that had also sold its spectrum in the auction. Prior to the sale, WYCN-CD owner OTA Broadcasting entered into a channel sharing agreement with the WGBH Educational Foundation to broadcast WYCN-CD on

8428-482: Was absent from the Boston TV market until it was picked up by WCRN-LD on May 5, 2020. Grit is now carried on the primary channel of WDPX-TV . During its first year on the air, WNDS ran a number of locally produced programs, including a cooking show ( The Yankee Gourmet ), a children's show ( Just Kidding Around ) and a weekly prime-time variety show ( The Best of New Hampshire ). All of these shows were canceled by

8526-444: Was discontinued. In December 2012, the station's studios moved from Rivier University to a location shared with sister station WFNQ (106.3 FM). New Hampshire 1 Network filed to sell WYCN-LP to OTA Broadcasting , a company controlled by Michael Dell 's MSD Capital , on January 14, 2013; the three translators were not included in the deal, and began to simulcast WBIN-TV. Operation of WYCN continued to be handled by New Hampshire 1. At

8624-430: Was expected to reach Manchester and Boston. The digital facility was planned to sign on by December 2013; construction was held up by the need to use a helicopter to remove a former antenna for WNDS (now WWJE-DT) from the tower on Merrill Hill in Hudson that WYCN planned to use, an operation that was delayed to May 2014 by winter weather. The conversion to digital was licensed by the FCC on October 23, 2014; concurrent with

8722-427: Was in southern New Hampshire . This was confirmed in January 2016, when the network announced it would start a new station, to be known as NBC Boston, at the start of 2017. WHDH's owner, Sunbeam Television , unsuccessfully sued NBC in an attempt to prevent the network from moving its affiliation. To serve as the broadcast outlet for NBC Boston, NBC acquired WTMU-LP, a low-power station which rebroadcast WNEU, and gave it

8820-458: Was in the process of preparing WNEU to become an NBC owned-and-operated station by expanding its news operation, including hiring former WHDH meteorologist Pete Bouchard . The Boston Herald reported two days later that the station would prospectively be branded as NBC Boston and that WNEU's existing Telemundo programming could be moved to a different subchannel. Following the reports, Paul Magnes, WHDH's vice president and general manager, told

8918-506: Was no one channel to promote. Promotion ahead of the launch included audio and transit advertising as well as pop-up events where news anchors handed out hot chocolate at shopping centers. The station was rebranded as NBC10 Boston at the start of 2018, emphasizing its cable channel. The broadcast incentive auction held later in 2017 led to further changes as a number of Boston-area television stations sold their spectrum and agreed to share channels with other broadcasters. Among these stations

9016-489: Was on Governor Dinsmore Road in Windham, New Hampshire , to comply with FCC regulations requiring that a station's transmitter be located within 15 miles (24 km) of its city of license . However, the station's coverage in many parts of Greater Boston was spotty at best. The station's Lowell studios were located less than 1,000 feet (305 m) from the transmitter of WLLH , making high-quality production impossible during

9114-629: Was one of only two television stations based in the state of New Hampshire to broadcast local newscasts (alongside WMUR-TV ), as much of the state is part of the Boston media market. On February 17, 2017, WBIN canceled its newscasts as part of a wind-down of the station's operations following the sale of its spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s incentive auction . The station shut down its channel 35 transmitter on Merrill Hill in Hudson, New Hampshire , on September 15, 2017, and began operating on channel 27 through

9212-443: Was replaced with WeatherNation TV on January 14, 2013. The station also made moves to strengthen its programming, including the addition of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider on September 10, 2012 ( Entertainment Tonight had previously aired in New Hampshire on WMUR-TV ; both programs also remained on WSBK-TV). In December 2014, Grit replaced WeatherNation TV on their DT3 sub-channel. In January 2015, Live Well Network

9310-526: Was replaced with "WBIN Classics" on the DT2 sub-channel, featuring original programming as well as programming from the Antenna TV network. WBIN was the flagship of Binnie Media, a group that also included WYCN-LP (channel 13) in Nashua and 16 northern New England radio stations formerly owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners . On February 17, 2017, Binnie Media announced that WBIN-TV had sold its spectrum in

9408-514: Was switched from home shopping programming to the NBC-owned Telemundo Spanish-language network. NBC outsourced operations of the new Telemundo station to ZGS Communications , owner of existing Telemundo affiliate WTMU-LP, and the two stations simulcast programming. NBC merged with cable company Comcast in 2011. Comcast was the owner of New England Cable News (NECN), a regional cable news channel that had originally been

9506-411: Was unclear how NBC Boston would be broadcast to viewers, and NBC was linked to several options, including acquiring WBPX-TV (channel 68) from Ion Television or WFXT (channel 25), Boston's Fox affiliate, from Cox Television . On August 31, 2016, NBC moved a step closer to securing signals for NBC Boston by agreeing to buy WTMU-LP from ZGS Communications for $ 100,000. Concurrently, ZGS entered into

9604-554: Was within the permissible 90-day window prior to the original February 17, 2009, deadline for full-power television stations in the United States to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (this deadline was later moved to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 35, using virtual channel 50. In 2010, WZMY-TV began broadcasting prime time MyNetworkTV programming in high definition . As WBIN-TV,

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