WHDH-TV (defunct)
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Boston, Massachusetts United States |
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| Channels | Analog: 5 (VHF) |
| Owner | Boston Herald Traveler |
| First air date | November 26, 1957 |
| Last air date | March 18, 1972 |
| Call letters' meaning | Taken from former sister station WHDH |
| Sister station(s) | WHDH (now WEEI), WHDH-FM (now WJMN) |
| Former affiliations |
ABC (1957–1960) CBS (1961–1972) |
| Transmitter power | 100 kW |
| Height | 306 m |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
WHDH-TV, channel 5, was a television station located 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. WCVB operates using a separate license from WHDH-TV; conversely, the original WHDH-TV is also of no relation to the current WHDH (channel 7), which served as the Boston market's NBC affiliate from January 2, 1995 through December 31, 2016.
The station first signed on the air on November 26, 1957. It was owned by the Boston Herald Traveler Corporation, along with WHDH radio (850 AM, frequency now occupied by WEEI; and 94.5 FM, now WJMN). Before the Herald-Traveler signed the station on, the DuMont Television Network applied for the channel 5 construction permit to replace WDTV (now KDKA-TV) in Pittsburgh among its owned-and-operated station group, but DuMont shut down their network before being able to acquire the permit. WHDH-TV was originally an ABC affiliate, but switched to CBS on January 1, 1961. The move was initiated by CBS after its existing Boston station, WNAC-TV (channel 7) was agreed to be sold by RKO General to NBC in a deal which ultimately never materialized.
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. Channel 5 was the first television station in New England to originate live (and later taped) local programming in color. In 1959, WHDH-TV debuted a local version of Bozo the Clown with Frank Avruch as Bozo; in 1966, 130 episodes taped by WHDH-TV that year would go into national syndication for television stations that did not want to produce a local Bozo show.
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