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WHDH-TV(Redirected from WHDH)
WHDH-TV is the NBC affiliate in the Boston, Massachusetts television market. WHDH's transmitter is located in Newton, Massachusetts while its studios are located near Government Center in downtown Boston. It is one of six local Boston TV stations seen in Canada on the Bell ExpressVu satellite provider. The station first went on the air on June 21, 1948, as WNAC, the second television station in Boston. WHDH came into its current incarnation in 1990 when WNEV-TV's owner bought WHDH Radio (AM 850) and converted both stations to the WHDH call letters. WHDH-TV was a CBS affiliate until January 2, 1995, when WBZ-TV claimed the CBS affiliation. WHDH chose to become the NBC affiliate. Prior to the station's sale to Ed Ansin and Sunbeam Broadcasting in June 1993, WHDH had the lowest rated newscast in the Boston market. That changed when Ed Ansin introduced a faster paced news format that he helped develop at his Miami, Florida station WSVN. Though the format was toned down when compared to that of WSVN at the time, it was considered shocking by Boston standards. As such several prominent newscasters resigned. Nevertheless, the station, coupled with the new NBC affiliation, quickly became a ratings contender in Boston and today competes fiercely with the once perennial market leader, WCVB-TV. In 2002, WHDH was noted as having the best newscast in the US by the Columbia Journalism Review. In previous studies, the station was deemed as having one of the worst newscasts. Station Timeline1948: WNAC-TV, Boston, begins airing CBS, ABC, and DuMont network programming. External Links and ReferencesThe contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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