WNAC-TV (defunct)
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Boston, Massachusetts United States |
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| Owner | RKO General |
| First air date | June 21, 1948 |
| Last air date | May 22, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning | Sequentially assigned to former sister station WNAC |
| Sister station(s) | WNAC/WRKO, WNAC-FM/WRKO-FM/WROR |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 7 (VHF, 1948–1982) |
| Former affiliations |
CBS (1948–1961 & 1972–1982) ABC (secondary, 1948–1957; full-time, 1961–1972) DuMont (secondary, 1948–1956) |
WNAC-TV, channel 7, was a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station was owned by RKO General. Originally established in 1948, WNAC-TV signed off for the final time at midnight on May 22, 1982 due to improprieties by its parent company; it was replaced that morning with WNEV-TV (now WHDH), which operates on a separate license.
The station first signed on the air on June 21, 1948 as WNAC-TV, the second television station in Boston after WBZ-TV (channel 4), which debuted twelve days earlier. WNAC-TV originally operated as a CBS affiliate, but also carried some programs from the ABC and the now-defunct DuMont Television Network. The station was originally owned by General Tire, along with WNAC radio (then at 1260 AM, frequency now occupied by WBIX; later moved to 680 AM, now WRKO), which served as the flagship station of the New England regional radio network Yankee Network. General Tire had purchased the Yankee Network in 1943. WNAC first broadcast from studio facilities at 21 Brookline Avenue (which had also been home to WNAC radio and the Yankee Network) before moving to 7 Bulfinch Place, near Government Center, in 1968.
In 1950, General Tire bought the West Coast regional Don Lee Broadcasting System. Two years later, it bought the Bamberger Broadcasting Service (owners of WOR-AM–FM–TV in New York City) and merged its broadcasting interests into a new division, General Teleradio. General Tire bought RKO Radio Pictures in 1955 after General Tire found that RKO's film library would be a perfect programming source for WNAC and its other television stations. The studio was merged into General Teleradio to become RKO Teleradio; after the film studio was dissolved, the business was renamed RKO General in 1959.
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