WCVB-TV

WCVB-TV
Channels
Branding
  • WCVB Channel 5; WCVB NewsCenter 5
  • MeTV Boston (DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WMUR-TV
History
First air date
March 19, 1972 (52 years ago) (1972-03-19)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 5 (VHF, 1972–2009)
  • Digital: 20 (UHF, 1998–2019)
Call sign meaning
Channel V (Roman numeral 5, former analog channel) in Boston
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID65684
ERP
HAAT388.3 m (1,274 ft)
Transmitter coordinates42°18′37″N 71°14′12″W / 42.31028°N 71.23667°W / 42.31028; -71.23667
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.wcvb.com

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 radio stations.

Nearby Manchester, New Hampshire, is considered part of the Boston media market, making WCVB-TV part of a nominal duopoly with WMUR-TV (channel 9), that city's ABC affiliate; however, the two stations maintain separate operations.

WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations that are carried by satellite provider Bell Satellite TV and fiber optic television provider Bell Fibe TV in Canada. Since 2010, midday and weekend late newscasts, along with World News Now, are overlaid with Canadian paid programming on those providers; however, the latter has carried the normal WCVB-TV feed in recent years.[when?]

  1. ^ "WCVB-TV". Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WCVB-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.