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WCVB-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Hearst Television.The station's studios are located on TV Place (off Gould Street near the I-95/MA 128/Highland Avenue interchange) in Needham, Massachusetts, and its transmitter is located on Cedar Street, also in Needham, on a tower shared with several other television and ...
Technical information. ERP. 100 kW. HAAT. 306 m (1,004 ft) WHDH-TV (channel 5) was a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station ceased operations on March 18, 1972, following the revocation of the station's license. The channel 5 allocation in the market was taken over by WCVB-TV the following morning, March 19, 1972.
Don Gillis (sportscaster) Donald A. Gillis (August 1, 1922 – April 23, 2008) [1][2] was a Canadian-born American sportscaster who was sports director of Boston's Channel 5 (WHDH-TV through March 18, 1972; thereafter WCVB-TV) from 1962 through 1983. Gillis pioneered the 11 p.m. sports report in Boston during his tenure at WHDH-TV, becoming the ...
The WHDH-TV call sign was previously used by the original occupant of channel 5, under the ownership of the Boston Herald-Traveler, from 1957 to 1972. It was Mugar's plan to create, once again, a second major television/radio duopoly, primarily in news, to compete with the long-standing combo of WBZ radio and WBZ-TV.
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Boston: 2 5 WGBH-TV: PBS: World on 2.2 : 4 20 WBZ-TV: CBS: Start TV on 4.2, Dabl on 4.3, Fave TV on 4.4 : 5 33 WCVB-TV: ABC: MeTV on 5.2, Story Television on 5.3
WLVI. WLVI (channel 56) is a television station licensed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, serving the Boston area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sunbeam Television alongside WHDH (channel 7), an independent station. WLVI and WHDH share studios at Bulfinch Place (near Government Center) in downtown Boston; through a channel ...
WFXT presently broadcasts 64 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 10 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday, 5 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Saturdays and 6 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to locally produced newscasts, it was the largest newscast output of any station in the Boston market and in New England ...
WGBH-TV is the flagship property of the WGBH Educational Foundation, [3] which also owns Boston's secondary PBS member WGBX-TV (channel 44) and Springfield, Massachusetts PBS member WGBY-TV (channel 57, operated by New England Public Media), Class A Biz TV affiliate WFXZ-CD (channel 24) and public radio stations WGBH (89.7 FM) and WCRB (99.5 FM) in the Boston area, and WCAI radio (and ...