WSBK-TV
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Boston, Massachusetts United States |
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| Branding | myTV38 WBZ News (during WBZ-TV-produced newscast) |
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Digital: 39 (UHF) Virtual: 38 () |
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| Owner |
CBS Corporation (CBS Television Licenses, LLC) |
| First air date | October 12, 1964 |
| Call letters' meaning | SBK (stock ticker symbol of former owner Storer Broadcasting) |
| Sister station(s) | WBZ, WBZ-FM, WBZ-TV, WBMX, WODS, WZLX |
| Former callsigns | WIHS-TV (1964–1966) |
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| Transmitter power | 135 kW |
| Height | 390 m |
| Facility ID | 73982 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°18′37″N 71°14′14″W / 42.31028°N 71.23722°WCoordinates: 42°18′37″N 71°14′14″W / 42.31028°N 71.23722°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | mytv38 boston |
WSBK-TV, virtual channel 38 (UHF digital channel 39), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of the CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CBS owned-and-operated station WBZ-TV (channel 4). The two stations share studios on Soldiers Field Road in the Brighton section of Boston, WSBK's transmitter is located along the Needham and Wellesley town line (southwest of the MA 9 and I-95/MA 128 interchange).
WSBK is also available via direct broadcast satellite throughout the United States on Dish Network as part of its superstation package (which since September 2013, is available only to existing subscribers of the tier).
The first construction permit for channel 38 in Boston was granted in October 1955 to Ajax Enterprises, headed by Herbert Mayer, a former New York City attorney who had founded Empire Coil, a New Rochelle, New York manufacturer of RF coils for television stations and receivers. Mayer went on to own stations in Portland, Oregon (KPTV, the country's first licensed UHF station) and Cleveland (WXEL). He sold the cable manufacturer and both television stations to Storer Broadcasting in 1954. Channel 38 was originally slated to have the WHMB call sign; however, after Storer changed the call letters of the Cleveland property to WJW-TV in April 1956, Mayer quickly reclaimed the WXEL call letters for the Boston station. WXEL's proposed transmitter in Melrose was never built, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoked the construction permit and deleted the call letters in November 1960.
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