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WHDH (TV) (digital channel 35, virtual channel 7): an independent television station in Boston, Massachusetts that was formerly affiliated with CBS and NBC; WHDH-TV (channel 5): a television station in Boston that existed from 1957 to 1972; replaced by WCVB-TV; WEEI (AM) 850, a radio station in Boston that previously used the WHDH callsign
Boston Mayor Ray Flynn declared March 12, 1990, as "WHDH Day" in Boston, celebrating the joining of the radio and television stations. On that day, personalities from WHDH-TV spoke as guests on WHDH radio. The dual operation, which began with much fanfare and leverage, proved to be too costly for Mugar and company.
Initially, WHDH-TV shared studio facilities with WHDH radio located at 6 St. James Avenue in Boston's Back Bay; but this facility was far from ideal for television and in early 1960, the station moved into a newly built studio center at 50 Morrisey Boulevard in the Dorchester section of Boston.
WEEI (850 kHz) is a commercial sports gambling AM radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of New England.Owned by Audacy, Inc., WEEI is the Boston affiliate for the Audacy-owned BetQL Network and Infinity Sports Network, serving as a gambling-focused brand extension of its main sports radio station in the market, WEEI-FM.
WLVI and WHDH share studios at Bulfinch Place (near Government Center) in downtown Boston; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WHDH's spectrum from the WHDH-TV tower in Newton, Massachusetts. Channel 56 is Boston's oldest UHF station, with roots dating to 1953 and having been in continuous operation since 1966.
For a time, Boston was the largest market without an urban-formatted radio station; heritage R&B AM daytimer WILD, which served the area's African-American community since 1967, began airing China Radio International programming in June 2011, and its one-time hip hop sister station WBOT (which later became urban AC WILD-FM), which gave the ...
Larry Glick (May 16, 1922 – March 26, 2009) [1] was an American talk radio host, based in Boston, Massachusetts, who presented a long-running show on WBZ and later WHDH through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His broadcast at WBZ covered 38 states, Larry was well known wherever he went and was liked by all.
At war's end, he attended Boston's Leland Powers School of Broadcasting on the GI Bill and began a career in radio broadcasting at New Bedford's WBSM-AM in 1949, becoming that station's first sports director. In 1951, he joined the on-air staff of Boston's WHDH-AM 850, where he hosted music programs before focusing exclusively on sports.