WBTS-LD
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Boston, Massachusetts United States |
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| Branding | NBC Boston |
| Slogan | We Are Boston |
| Channels |
Digital: 46 (UHF) Virtual: 8 () |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Affiliations | NBC (O&O) |
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NBCUniversal (Station Venture Operations, LP) |
| First air date | April 1995 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Boston Television Station |
| Sister station(s) | WNEU, NECN, Comcast SportsNet New England |
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| Transmitter power | 11.2 kW |
| Facility ID | 64996 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°18′37.0″N 71°14′14.0″W / 42.310278°N 71.237222°WCoordinates: 42°18′37.0″N 71°14′14.0″W / 42.310278°N 71.237222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WBTS-LD, virtual channel 8 (UHF digital channel 46), is an NBC owned-and-operated low-powered television station located in Boston, Massachusetts. The station is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal, and operates as part of a duopoly with Merrimack, New Hampshire-licensed Telemundo owned-and-operated station WNEU (channel 60). The two stations share studio facilities with sister regional cable news channel New England Cable News (NECN) on Wells Avenue in Newton, and its transmitter is located in Needham.
The station, originally known as W32AY and later WTMU-LP, originally served as an affiliate of the Spanish-language television network Telemundo—initially as the main station, and later acting as a translator of WNEU (whose signal does not reach the entire city of Boston). On January 7, 2016, NBC Owned Television Stations president Valari Staab confirmed that NBC had declined to renew its affiliation with WHDH, and that it planned to launch an owned-and-operated outlet for the network known as NBC Boston on January 1, 2017. At the time, NBC did not provide specific details on which stations would be used to carry the new service over-the-air, although WHDH's owner Sunbeam Television sued NBCUniversal under the presumption that it planned to only use WNEU—as it would have considerably reduced the ability to receive the network over the air in Boston (thus bolstering the cable services provided by NBC's parent company Comcast in the city).
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