WMBC-TV

Coordinates: 40°42′46.8″N 74°0′47.3″W / 40.713000°N 74.013139°W / 40.713000; -74.013139
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Not to be confused with MBC, KMBC-TV, or WNBC.

WMBC-TV
FCC
Facility ID43952
ERP250 kW
HAAT520 m (1,706 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°42′46.8″N 74°0′47.3″W / 40.713000°N 74.013139°W / 40.713000; -74.013139
Links
Public license information
Websitewmbctv.com

WMBC-TV (channel 63) is a

Merit Street Media. The station is owned by the Mountain Broadcasting Corporation, and maintains studios on Clinton Road in West Caldwell, New Jersey; it transmits from atop One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan
.

History

Mountain Broadcasting was founded in 1985 by a group of

FamilyNet. Later in 1993, the station also began running public domain movies and film shorts
from Main Street TV, along with FamilyNet programs.

In 1996, when New York City-owned WNYC-TV (channel 31, now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXN-TV) dropped its ethnic, foreign-language television programming following its sale to private interests, many of these programs were picked up by WMBC-TV. WMBC also dropped FamilyNet and Main Street TV programming and began to air more infomercials and religious shows directly from ministries. By 1997, it ran a blend of religion and infomercials during the day and ethnic shows at night and on Saturdays. It was also running several hours a week of educational kids' shows, and began producing a local newscast.

In the immediate aftermath of the

flagship station WNBC (channel 4).[3]

WMBC had an extremely weak

Charter Spectrum and Optimum. Its signal was dropped from DirecTV's New York City local stations package on December 31
, 2005; however, DirecTV resumed carriage of WMBC in early 2009.

Programming

Prior to the switch to Merit Street Media, WMBC-TV's lineup consisted of brokered ethnic and religious programs, a half-hour weekday newscast, infomercials and

educational/informational" requirements.[4]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of WMBC-TV[5]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
63.1 720p
16:9
 MeritSt
Merit Street Media
63.2 SCRIPPS Scripps News
63.4 480i SinoVsn SinoVision (Chinese)
63.5 4:3 NTDTV
NTD Television
(Chinese)
63.6 16:9 ShopHQ ShopHQ
63.7 4:3 ALIENTO Aliento Vision (Spanish)
63.8 Audio only WDNJ WDNJ 88.1 FM (Spanish Christian)
63.9 KCBN Korean Christian Broadcasting Network

Analog-to-digital conversion

WMBC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over

UHF channel 63, on February 17, 2009, to conclude the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[6] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 18,[7] using virtual channel
63.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WMBC-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Koreans Win TV Franchise". The New York Times. Section 1. Associated Press. August 22, 1987. p. 50.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^ Dempsey, John (September 20, 2001). "TV beams back into N.Y." Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  4. ^ "WMBC-TV 63.1 September 2023 Program Schedule" (PDF). wmbctv.com. Mountain Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  5. ^ "RabbitEars.Info". Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  6. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013.
  7. ^ "CDBS Print". Fjallfoss.fcc.gov. Retrieved December 10, 2011.

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