Two years later, WHDH-FM was licensed, and on November 26, 1957, WHDH-TV made its début as an ABC affiliate on channel 5.

) The FCC ordered comparative hearings, and in 1969 a competing applicant, Boston Broadcasters, Inc. was granted a construction permit to replace WHDH-TV on channel 5.

Herald-Traveler Corp. fought the decision in court — by this time, revenues from channel 5 were all but keeping the newspaper afloat — but its final appeal ran out in 1972, and on March 19 WHDH-TV was forced to surrender channel 5 to the new WCVB-TV.

The network had originally affiliated with WNAC-TV in 1948, then moved to channel 5 ( then known as WHDH-TV ) in 1961.

However, by 1955, ABC began to move some of its programming to secondary clearances on WNAC, which continued until ( the original ) WHDH-TV signed on channel 5 in 1957.

In addition, the original WHDH-TV ( channel 5 ) was the flagship station of the Red Sox TV network from 1958 through 1971, while WHDH radio produced an early weekly sports roundtable show called The Voice of Sports, featuring sportswriters from the co-owned Herald-Traveler, various figures from Major League Baseball, and longtime WHDH-TV / WCVB-TV sports director Don Gillis.

However, team management was worried about the lack of penetration of UHF, leading to playoff away games being simulcast on WHDH-TV ( channel 5 ) in 1965 ( that station had previously aired select Celtics telecasts, including playoff away games starting in 1962 ); the following season, the team moved back to WHDH entirely.

However, much of Rhode Island could get the full ABC schedule from Boston stations — WHDH-TV ( channel 5, now occupied by WCVB-TV ) prior to January 1, 1961, and WNAC-TV ( channel 7, now WHDH ) from 1961 to 1963.

On August 28, 2008, WTMU changed its plans and applied to flash-cut to channel 42, which was to have become available after WHDH-TV moved its digital signal to channel 7 ; the original application was dismissed by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) on March 27, 2009, but a new application was filed on May 21.

* WHDH-TV, a television station ( channel 7 analog / 42 digital ) licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call sign WNAC-TV from August 1948 to May 1982

* March 18 – After losing a 15-year court battle over the legality of its business relationship with The Herald-Traveler, CBS ' Boston, Massachusetts affiliate WHDH-TV Channel 5 signs off the air.

After the children's television watchdog group Action for Children's Television was organized in 1968, the group's first target was Boston's version of Romper Room at WHDH-TV ( today's WCVB-TV ), which at the time was a children's show that focused on the promotion of its branded line of toys to its viewers.

She has worked at the Providence American newspaper and at the Boston television station WHDH-TV.

Existing CBS affiliate WHDH-TV was thus deciding between NBC and Fox, the latter of which its sister station, WSVN in Miami had been affiliated with since 1989.

After WHDH-TV was sold off, the radio station remained the last property under Mugar's company, and remained such for one year.

The station has since become WHDH-TV.

The station's broadcast schedule consisted of older cartoons, sitcoms, and family dramas, though the new station briefly ran a few preempted CBS shows from WHDH-TV.

Many viewers northeast of Hartford got a better signal for CBS programming from WNAC-TV ( now WHDH-TV ) in Boston, while those southwest of Hartford with an outdoor antenna were able to watch the network via New York City flagship station WCBS-TV.

After a sale attempt to " Rogue Television Corporation " ( a joint venture of Boston Phoenix owner and publisher Steve Mindich and WHRC ( now WWDP ) part-owner Michael C. Mooney ) in 1990-91 fell through, the WNHT license was sold to Wilson Hickham's New England Television ( no relation to the David Mugar company who, ironically, owned former competitor WNEV / WHDH-TV ) in 1991, and again to Boston University in 1993, who reactivated the station as WNBU in 1995.

That station is now NBC affiliate WHDH-TV.

In some markets ( such as Boston, Massachusetts, on WHDH-TV ), the third and fourth hours of Today air on tape delay.

The local WHDH-TV Boston production of Bozo's Circus with Frank Avruch aired from 1959 until 1970.

( Produced at WHDH-TV Boston 1965 – 1967 and syndicated to U. S. TV markets that were not producing their own local versions at the time, including New York City, Los Angeles & Washington, D. C.

For a time it was known as NBC, for the " Newfoundland Broadcasting Company ", until 1978 when WLBZ, the Bangor, Maine affiliate of the U. S .- based National Broadcasting Company, became available on cable ( to be replaced later by WDIV from Detroit and WHDH-TV from Boston ).

WNHT could not compete with WMUR-TV as well as stations from Boston, Massachusetts ( WNEV now WHDH-TV ) and Portland, Maine ( WGME-TV ) which were available in most of WNHT's viewing area.

Later, Claman served as a weekend anchor at WHDH-TV ( Boston ).

In 1986, Kraft helped a minority business group acquire WNEV-TV, a CBS affiliate in Boston ( now NBC affiliate WHDH-TV ).

Scarborough's first major market anchoring job came in 1972, at WNAC-TV ( now WHDH-TV ) in Boston.

A revamp of the theme, " Lottery ", was used by WNEV-TV / WHDH-TV in Boston during the late 1980s and early 1990s as well as several local Illinois game shows ; it can also be heard at the stage show The Price Is Right Live!

Thinking that one national show that he fully owned would be more profitable for his company, Harmon produced 130 of his own half-hour shows from 1965 to 1967 titled Bozo's Big Top with WHDH-TV ( now WCVB-TV ) Boston's Bozo, Frank Avruch, for syndication in 1966.

Then, from September 1992 until September 2010, WBZ aired Entertainment Tonight ( which it had acquired from WHDH-TV ) at 7: 30pm.

In late August 2006, WBZ-TV ended its 4 pm weekday newscast and hired anchor Chris May from WHDH-TV.

On that day, personalities from WHDH-TV spoke as guests on WHDH radio.

Martin called Red Sox games on both WHDH-AM radio and WHDH-TV from to, on WHDH-AM only from to, on WMEX-AM / WITS-AM from to, on WSBK-TV from to, and on New England Sports Network cable from to.

In addition to an increasingly-stronger lineup of syndicated programs and movies, WSBK continued to run some network programs that were preempted by the local NBC ( WBZ-TV ), ABC ( first WNAC-TV, then WCVB-TV ), and CBS ( first WHDH-TV, then WNAC-TV / WNEV-TV ) affiliates until 1981.

** Frank Avruch ( 1959 – 1970 ) at WHDH-TV ( now WCVB-TV )

On the other hand, WCVB-TV and WHDH-TV carry ABC and NBC programming respectively, but neither shares ownership ties with its parent network.

* Cinema ( TV channel ), a defunct Scandinavian movie channel

Part of its programming was translated into Italian and broadcast on the defunct Italian news channel Stream News.

* PRISM ( TV network ), a defunct cable television channel in Philadelphia, United States

* The Tube Music Network, a US defunct music video channel

* Colours TV, a defunct American television channel

* MediaCorp TV12 Central, a defunct TV channel in Singapore

The defunct channel Play UK created two spin offs ; TOTP + Plus and TOTP @ Play ( 2000 – 2001 ) ( until mid-2000, this show was called The Phone Zone and was a spin-off from BBC Two music series The O-Zone ).

* Varsity TV ( similarly-formatted channel in the US, also defunct )

During the period that Wallace was not coaching he became a prominent media personality, with roles on the now defunct Fox Footy channel and as a columnist in Melbourne newspaper the Herald Sun, which he still maintains.

It was resurrected in 2006 as an advertising jingle for the American retailer Kmart, an image campaign for CBS News, and was used in promotional advertisements for the now defunct television channel, TechTV.

* Tele Monte Carlo, defunct Italian language television channel ( Telemontecarlo )

* Showcase TV, a defunct satellite channel in the United Kingdom

In recent years, the series has been repeated on the ( now defunct ) British satellite television channel Plus, and can now be bought, on DVD, having been released by Network.

* Cable Music Channel, a defunct music television channel from Turner Broadcasting System, U. S.

SABC 1 carried much of its programming over from the defunct CCV ( Contemporary Community Values ) channel, which was itself made up of the old TV2, TV3 and TV4 channels created in the 1980s.

Between 2005 and 2008 the show was frequently shown on the now defunct channel ABC1.

Until August 2005, The National was also seen in the United States on the defunct Newsworld International channel ; the program continues to air occasionally on C-SPAN when that network wants to provide coverage of a major Canadian news story, or a Canadian angle for a world or American event.

AccuWeather operates a 24-hour commercially sponsored weather channel known as The Local AccuWeather Channel, which is similar to the now defunct NBC Weather Plus.

For the unrelated, defunct television channel in the United Kingdom, see The Movie Channel ( UK ).

It is the replacement for the defunct Setanta Sports 1 channel which went into administration and was closed.

* MOR Music TV ( Cable TV ), a defunct cable music video, shopping channel.

* TVS ( Russia ), a defunct Russian television channel

The programme was shown on the now defunct channel UK Play.