WHDH (TV)
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| WLVI | |
| History | |
| Founded | February 1982 |
First air date | May 22, 1982 |
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Call sign meaning | sequentially assigned to former radio sister station WHDH (AM) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 72145 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 304.1 m (998 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°18′41″N 71°12′58″W / 42.31139°N 71.21611°W |
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| Website | whdh |
WHDH (channel 7) is an independent television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by Sunbeam Television alongside Cambridge-licensed CW affiliate WLVI (channel 56). WHDH and WLVI share studios at Bulfinch Place (near Bowdoin Square and Government Center) in downtown Boston; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WHDH's spectrum from the WHDH-TV tower in Newton, Massachusetts.
From 1982 to 1995, WHDH was Boston's CBS affiliate, inheriting the affiliation from its predecessor on channel 7, WNAC-TV. On January 2, 1995, WHDH switched to NBC, after CBS moved to WBZ-TV (channel 4) by virtue of a group-wide affiliation deal with its owner, Westinghouse Broadcasting (CBS and Westinghouse merged that November, making WBZ-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station). On January 1, 2017, after losing NBC's affiliation to a newly formed owned-and-operated station, WBTS-LD (channel 8, now Telemundo O&O WYCN-LD in Providence, Rhode Island), WHDH became a news-intensive independent station.