WRDM-CD
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HAAT | 450 m (1,476 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 41°42′2″N 72°49′55″W / 41.70056°N 72.83194°W |
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Website | Connecticut section on WNEU's website |
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History | |
Founded | 1988 |
First air date | June 13, 1991 |
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Call sign meaning | anagram of WRDM-CD |
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Facility ID | 10154 |
Class | LD |
ERP | 15 kW |
HAAT | 146 m (479 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°5′7.3″N 72°42′10.3″W / 42.085361°N 72.702861°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
WRDM-CD (channel 19) is a
WDMR-LD (channel 14) in
History
WRDM-CD signed on June 14, 1986; it claims to be the first Spanish-language television station in New England.[5] The station initially operated on channel 13 under the call letters W13BF.[1] On June 13, 1991,[6] the station added a simulcast in Springfield, W65BX (channel 65).[1] Initially, in addition to Telemundo programming, W13BF and W65BX aired programming in Italian from public broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI)'s international service,[1] with additional programming in Greek and Polish.[7] The television stations were joined by radio station WRDM (1550 AM, now WSDK) in 1993;[1] on September 1, 1995, W13BF changed its call letters to WRDM-LP,[8] and W65BX became WDMR-LP.[9] WRDM radio was sold off in 1998.[10] During the late 1990s, WDMR-LP's schedule also included English-language Boston Red Sox telecasts produced by Boston's WABU (now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WBPX-TV).[11] By 1997, WRDM-LP's programming was simulcast in New Haven on W10BQ (channel 10, now defunct) and in Hartford on W11BJ (channel 11, now WFXQ-CD channel 28 in Springfield).[12]
Original owner Channel 13 Television sold WRDM-LP and WDMR-LP to ZGS Communications on March 27, 2001.[13][14] In January 2006, WRDM-LP moved to channel 50;[15] WDMR-LP moved to channel 51 that November.[16] WRDM became a class A station as WRDM-CA on May 7, 2008.[8] On November 15, 2012, WDMR flash cut from analog to digital as WDMR-LD;[9] on January 7, 2013, WRDM followed suit and became WRDM-CD.[8] WDMR-LD now serves as a complete simulcast of WRDM-CD.[17]
On December 4, 2017,
Newscasts
WRDM-LP began producing a newscast in April 1998; at the outset, Noticiero 13 primarily featured reports from Puerto Rico and Latin America, with local news coverage being added in June 1999.[20] The station's news operation was discontinued in the early 2000s; WRDM then began carrying Telenoticias Puerto Rico from WKAQ-TV in San Juan.
On December 15, 2017, NBCUniversal announced that, following its acquisition of WRDM-CD, the station (along with WDMR-LD) would begin simulcasting the newscasts of Boston sister station WNEU; the newscasts will include news from Connecticut and western Massachusetts from a reporter based at WRDM's facilities at the WVIT studios in West Hartford.[18]
Technical information
Subchannels
The stations' signals are
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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19.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
TLMD | Main WRDM-CD programming / Telemundo |
19.2 | 480i | EXITOS | TeleXitos |
WDMR-LD also broadcasts the national services NBC LX Home and Oxygen, which are carried by WVIT as subchannels 30.3 and 30.4.
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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14.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
WDMR-LD | Main WDMR-LD programming / Telemundo |
14.2 | 480i | XITOS S | TeleXitos | |
14.3 | LocalX | NBC LX Home | ||
14.4 | Oxygen | Oxygen |
Spectrum auction repack
On August 2, 2019, WVIT and WRDM-CD were switched from RF 35 to RF 31.
References
- ^ a b c d e Lender, Jon (August 13, 1993). "Radio Station Targets Hispanic, Italian, Other Ethnic Markets". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WRDM-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WDMR-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ a b Miller, Mark K. (December 4, 2017). "NBCU Adding ZGS Stations To Telemundo". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
- ^ "Telemundo Hartford/Springfield Celebrates its 25th Anniversary". Telemundo Hartford/Springfield Station Spotlight. May 23, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ Television & Cable Factbook 2006 Edition (PDF). 2006. p. B-78. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ Trecker, Jerry (October 13, 1993). "Getting With The Program". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ a b c "Call Sign History (WRDM-CD)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ a b "Call Sign History (WDMR-LD)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (February 12, 1998). "The Mouse that Ate Hartford". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (April 3, 1996). "New England RadioWatch". Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (June 26, 1997). "The Reaction to Dodge". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low Power Television Station". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. June 22, 2000. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Application Search Details (WDMR-LD, 1)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (January 30, 2006). "And now...The CW?". NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Application Search Details (WDMR-LD, 2)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WDMR-LD
- ^ a b Miller, Mark K. (December 15, 2017). "WNEU Boston Rebrands, Adds 2 Newscasts". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
- ^ "FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Auction 1001 Winning Bids" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. April 4, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
- ^ Weiss, Tara (August 16, 1999). "Accent On News". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
- ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for WRDM-CD". RabbitEars. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
- ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for WDMR-LD". RabbitEars. Retrieved September 20, 2022.