WBTS-CD
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HAAT | 388.3 m (1,274 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 42°18′37″N 71°14′12″W / 42.31028°N 71.23667°W |
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Website | www |
WBTS-CD (channel 15) is a
Under a
WBTS-CD is carried on channel 10 by most local cable television providers;[2][3] hence the station's on-air branding (since 2018) as NBC 10 Boston.
History
TV13 Nashua
The station came to the air at 8 p.m. on January 29, 1988, as W13BG on
WYCN-LP was nearly dropped by Harron Cable on its Nashua-area systems in October 1999 to accommodate a
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, a company controlled by William H. Binnie, in 2010;[14] by this point, control of the stations had passed to longtime WYCN staffers Gordon Jackson and Carolyn Choate[6] following the death of Robert Rines.[15] The deal was completed January 3, 2012;[16] 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, was discontinued.[17] In December 2012, the station's studios moved from Rivier University to a location shared with sister station WFNQ (106.3 FM).[18]
New Hampshire 1 Network filed to sell WYCN-LP to
WYCN-LP resumed producing local programming soon after the sale to OTA Broadcasting, rehiring Gordon Jackson and Carolyn Choate as station managers;
Due to its low power, WYCN's analog signal reached only portions of Nashua, its city of license. In contrast, its digital signal was expected to reach Manchester and Boston. The digital facility was planned to sign on by December 2013;[29] 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.[30] The conversion to digital was licensed by the FCC on October 23, 2014; concurrent with the launch of the digital signal, the analog channel 13 signal was shut down.
Until January 2018, WYCN-CD's original digital transmitter was located 625 feet (0.191 km) off Trigate Road in rural Hudson, southeast of Nashua. The station's pre-auction digital signal broadcast on
As WBTS-CD
WYCN-CD sold its frequency rights as part of the FCC's
The sale to NBC was completed on January 18, 2018;[35] the station began channel sharing with WGBX the same day. Prior to this transition, WYCN-CD was affiliated with Heroes & Icons (H&I),[32] which also maintained a full-market affiliation on the second subchannel of WSBK-TV; that station continues to carry H&I, though the network lost the low channel number cable carriage it held with WYCN-CD.
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.[36][37] 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;[38] WYCN-LD now serves as a Telemundo station for Providence, leaving WBTS-CD as the sole NBC station for the Boston area.
News operation
WBTS-CD broadcasts 43 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours, 5 minutes each weekday, 3+1⁄2 hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays); in addition, the station produces the half-hour lifestyle program The Hub Today, which airs weekday afternoons, and the weekly half-hour public affairs program This is New England, which airs Sunday mornings. It also uses a news helicopter (SkyRanger), a storm-chaser satellite truck (Weather Warrior), mobile weather radar vehicles (StormRanger), a consumer affairs unit (NBC 10 Boston Responds) and an investigative reporting unit (The Investigators).[2]
Notable current on-air staff
- JC Monahan– anchor
- Pete Bouchard – meteorologist
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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15.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
WBTS-CD | NBC |
15.2 | 480i | Cozi | Cozi TV |
Coverage in Canada
WBTS-CD is one of several Boston television stations uplinked to provide U.S. network programming to television providers in Canada, particularly in
See also
- Media in Boston
- Channel 15 virtual TV stations in the United States
- Channel 10 branded TV stations in the United States
- Channel 32 digital TV stations in the United States
- Channel 32 low-power TV stations in the United States
References
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