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Hmmm … Could This Be NBC’s New Boston Station?

Sep 16, 2016  •  Post A Comment

The current NBC affiliate in Boston is losing its network affiliation in a few months, and new information suggests that the new Boston NBC station may be WBTS.

The current NBC affiliate in the city, WHDH-TV, will lose its affiliation as of Jan. 1. “In the meantime, NBC has been staffing up NECN, the NBC-owned cable news channel, which will almost certainly make up much of the news staff of the new NBC Boston,” Adweek reports.

The report cites a Bizapedia listing that shows WBTS Television LLC as a Massachusetts company formed on July 13, 2016. “The two principals listed are both Comcast executives based in New York, while the LLC’s principal address is in Universal City, CA, NBCU’s West Coast HQ,” Adweek reports.

“While WBTS may be the call letters (or simply what NBCU is calling this LLC), what’s still not known is where Boston viewers can find NBC programming starting in less than four months,” the report adds.

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8 Comments

  1. Seeing as how there is NO TV station listed with the FCC as WBTS, that is simply the name of the company.

  2. I researched and found a vacant channel location in Boston where NBC should broadcast WBTS (The new NBC Boston) on. It should broadcast on channel 14 where a former independent station WJZB-TV once broadcasted at before ending in1969. NBC needs to be first on the dial in Boston before Fox 25 there if NBC is going to get a chance to survive in the ratings.

  3. why doesn’t nbc ask fcc for vhf number like chs. 1,3 or 8 like the other top 10 nbc owned stations

    • many boston people will hope new station will be ch. 8 for yaztremski who played for the red sox

  4. WHY DOESN’T NBC ASK FCC FOR VHF NO. LIKE CHS. 1, 3 OR 8 LIKE THE OTHER TOP 10 TV MARKET NBC STATIONS

    • why don’t nbc and cbs trade stations wbz goes back to nbc and cbs goes to wneu ch.60 nbc could sell wsbk

  5. They should just get on Netflix like everyone else

  6. where nbc go in boston in 2018 wmfp will be off aIR meaning nbc will either have to raise station to full power or buy another station

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