WMBQ-CD

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WMBQ-CD
kW
HAAT495.6 m (1,626 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°42′46.8″N 74°0′47.3″W / 40.713000°N 74.013139°W / 40.713000; -74.013139
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WMBQ-CD (channel 46) is a class A television station in New York City, affiliated with First Nations Experience. Owned by The WNET Group, it is sister to the city's two PBS member stations, Newark, New Jersey–licensed WNET (channel 13) and Garden City, New York–licensed WLIW (channel 21), as well as WNDT-CD (channel 14).

Under a channel sharing arrangement, WMBQ-CD shares transmitter facilities with WLIW at One World Trade Center. Despite WMBQ-CD legally holding a low-power class A license, it transmits using WLIW's full-power spectrum. This ensures complete reception across the New York City television market.

History

As W22BM and WLBX-LP

A

Viacom in 2001; the station then carried MTV2 like many other former Box stations. On September 11, 2001, WLBX-LP aired footage from CNN and TechTV
.

As WMBQ

The call sign was changed to WMBQ-CA in 2004. In 2006, Renard Communications Corp. (the Craig Fox-controlled company that by then held the license) began transitioning to a new studio and transmitter they were constructing in Manhattan. Due to this change, WMBQ-CA was displaced from channel 22 to channel 46, and the city of license was changed from Cranford to New York City. On August 17, 2007, Renard Communications Corp. announced that would sell its three stations to Equity Media Holdings for $8 million.[2] However, the transaction had a closing deadline set for June 1, 2008, and either party could cancel the sale if it were not completed by then. The sale had not been consummated by June 19 of that year, as the company was making budget cuts elsewhere;[3] and later that year, Equity Media Holdings entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. On January 3, 2008, WMBQ-CA went dark, reportedly as a result of moving to a new transmitter site.[4]

In mid-2011, Renard sold WMBQ for $5,250,000 to Prime Time Partners LLC, whose main principals are Jose Rodríguez and Marisol Messir.[5]

Former logo as WMBQ-CD

The call sign was changed to WMBQ-CD on April 23, 2012, when the station completed its digital transition. Long-form infomercial programming was added full-time; however, later that year, Canal SOI was added after having been removed from WNJU-DT3, which had aired it for a year. The SOI programming ended in 2013, and infomercial programming was once again added back to the subchannel, with just one local program airing, the morning show Al Día. This format continued through late December; Biz TV was then added, making WMBQ-CD the first station to air financial programming in the New York City TV market since WBIS aired financial programming from 1996 to 1998.

Spectrum sale and donation to WNET

In the

MHz Worldview. After MHz Networks announced in January that MHz Worldview would cease operations by March 1, 2020, in favor of digital streaming, WNET switched its programming to First Nations Experience.[11]

Subchannel

WMBQ-CD transmits one channel on the

multiplex
shared with WLIW:

Subchannel of WMBQ-CD on the WLIW multiplex (ATSC 3.0)[12]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
46.1 480p
16:9
 WMBQ-CD First Nations Experience

A third subchannel, EEE, a Spanish-language religious network, was added in 2014 but with low audio levels. In January 2015, EEE was replaced with long-form

Biz TV
was previously on WMBQ's primary channel 46.1 until it was donated to WNET.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WMBQ-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Equity Media Announces Acquisition of Three New York City Television Stations" (Press release). Little Rock, AR: Equity Media Holdings. August 17, 2007. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009.
  3. ^ Manthey, Toby (June 14, 2008). "Equity ends newscasts; N.Y. station buy teeters". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Archived from the original on February 6, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2008.
  4. ^ "BLSTA-20070119ABT (Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA)".
  5. ^ "Class A television sold in the Big Apple". Television Business Report. July 27, 2011. Archived from the original on September 18, 2011. Retrieved December 15, 2011.
  6. ^ "FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Auction 1001 Winning Bids" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. April 4, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
  7. ^ "Amendment to a Modification of a Licensed Facility for Digital Class A TV Station Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. October 20, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
  8. ^ "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. October 26, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
  9. ^ "Consummation Notice". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  10. ^ "Request for Silent Authority of a Digital Class A Station Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. December 28, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  11. ^ "Here's How to Keep Watching MHz Worldview Programming After March 1st". mhznetworks.com. January 8, 2020.
  12. ^ "Digital Market Listing for WMBQ-CD". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
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