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NBC Boston channel speculation.

chitchatjf said:
i assumed WHDH would stay with NBC untill Dec 31st.
I say Ch 62 will be the place.
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Unless Ed Ansin wants to kick off the new mostly-news WHDH early, NBC will probably remain there until the end of the year. Comcast / NBC Universal could launch some local programming on WNEU or most anywhere ahead of time.

62 still seems to be the most logical new home for NBC, with the unknown factor being the spectrum auction, which is not doing so well, having reached the cutoff day Tuesday with bids reaching only 25% of what was required. Next week the FCC starts it all over again with another reverse auction and 2 fewer channels up for grabs. That may go on over and over for a long time...
 
A few days ago, WHDH did a news story on how wonderful the station will be next year. There'll be an even bigger commitment to news, just for us viewers. New staff would be hired. No mention was made that WHDH is losing NBC affiliation or that it fought to keep it and failed. The story told us each weekday there'd be news at...

5-10am
Noon-1pm
4-7:30pm
9-11:30pm

Note that the late night news will now start at NINE PM. They didn't list the weekend schedule. And the story told us we'd see great shows like Family Feud in prime time, at 8pm. The only time NBC was mentioned in the entire story was at the end when it said the co-owned Channel 7 in Miami lost its NBC affiliation a few years ago and came out even stronger! Of course, they didn't mention that station picked up Fox affiliation while WHDH will become an independent.
 
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Gregg. said:
A few days ago, WHDH did a news story on how wonderful the station will be next year. There'll be an even bigger commitment to news, just for us viewers. New staff would be hired. No mention was made that WHDH is losing NBC affiliation or that it fought to keep it and failed. The story told us each weekday there'd be news at...

5-10am
Noon-1pm
4-7:30pm
9-11:30pm

Note that the late night news will now start at NINE PM. They didn't list the weekend schedule. And the story told us we'd see great shows like Family Feud in prime time, at 8pm. The only time NBC was mentioned in the entire story was at the end when it said the co-owned Channel 7 in Miami lost its NBC affiliation a few years ago and came out even stronger! Of course, they didn't mention that station picked up Fox affiliation while WHDH will become an independent.
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WHDH actually has posted the fact they will become independent next year, and now show the complete 7-day schedule on their site: http://whdh.com/uncategorized/7news-to-offer-expanding-coverage-starting-in-2017/
There's some positive spin, and a few nasty viewer comments there too...
 
Gregg. said:
A few days ago, WHDH did a news story on how wonderful the station will be next year. There'll be an even bigger commitment to news, just for us viewers. New staff would be hired. No mention was made that WHDH is losing NBC affiliation or that it fought to keep it and failed. The story told us each weekday there'd be news at...

5-10am
Noon-1pm
4-7:30pm
9-11:30pm

Note that the late night news will now start at NINE PM. They didn't list the weekend schedule. And the story told us we'd see great shows like Family Feud in prime time, at 8pm. The only time NBC was mentioned in the entire story was at the end when it said the co-owned Channel 7 in Miami lost its NBC affiliation a few years ago and came out even stronger! Of course, they didn't mention that station picked up Fox affiliation while WHDH will become an independent.
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Weekend schedule is 8:00-11:00am, 6:00-7:30 and 9:00-11:30pm.
 
I wonder why WHDH is only starting weekend news at 8am? I know most folks get up a bit later on weekends. But I don't know of any station that waits till 8am. In Portland ME the ABC station, Channel 8, starts its weekend morning news at 5am.
 
Gregg. said:
I wonder why WHDH is only starting weekend news at 8am? I know most folks get up a bit later on weekends. But I don't know of any station that waits till 8am. In Portland ME the ABC station, Channel 8, starts its weekend morning news at 5am.
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WCAX in Burlington, VT starts their Sunday morning news at 8am.
 
Bit of trivia from Wikipedia--actually two bits:

--WHDH 5 went from ABC to CBS on 1/1/61. Just before then, NBC had a kind of agreement to buy WNAC 7 (and that would be the city's affiliate of course). It didn't come to pass though. One far fetched rumor has had NBC buying 5 now. What may be more likely is the Peacock sweetening a possible deal for 7, but we shall see.


--The first network O&O in Boston was WFXT 25 when News Corp. obtained it/Fox Network. CBS later got 4. Will NBC
get someone? 68? 60? 7? 5?
 
Actually with WBZ, Westinghouse owned it before they bought CBS and then Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting changed its name to CBS.
 
Since WBTS Television LLC exists, one could assume that NBC Boston will not be on channel 60 and Comcast will be buying a second TV signal in the market even though they haven't identified it and it will be on the air and picked up by Xfinity, FiOS, DirecTv, Dish & other video providers by Jan 1st? They're going to have to really market it too and location on video providers so that NBC doesn't lose ratings. It's not like when channel 4 & 7 switched. There network programming just switched between two stations. Here, people are going to have to look for a new station that they probably haven't watched.
 
WNEU DTV repeater is on - from Needham towers?

A scan tonight near Newton / West Roxbury line shows WNEU 60-1, 60-2, 60-3 coming in at 100 %, and the RF channel is 46. (NH transmitter is on 34.) Looks like the long rumored DTV repeater is on the air. The PSIP info displays WNEU 60-1, etc.
 
channel99 said:
A scan tonight near Newton / West Roxbury line shows WNEU 60-1, 60-2, 60-3 coming in at 100 %, and the RF channel is 46. (NH transmitter is on 34.) Looks like the long rumored DTV repeater is on the air. The PSIP info displays WNEU 60-1, etc.
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That would be WTMU-LP.
 
mvcg66b3r said:
They would still need signals for the Worcester area, southern Plymouth County, Cape Cod and the Islands.
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no they dont. As long as it covers Boston proper thats all they need

Here in Minneapolis KARE 11 covers the Twin Cites area up to about 60+ miles but they dont care about the northern part of the vast market. They ahve no coverage there sans one translator that is co-op owned. Where my lake house is we get CBS, ABC, FOX, MY, PBS but NBC is a pipe dream

A station does not have to cover the whole market.
 
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