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WHDH-TV, VHF analog channel 5, was a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station ceased operations on March 18, 1972, following the revocation of the station's license. The channel 5 allocation in the market was taken over by WCVB-TV the following morning: March 19, 1972. WCVB operates using a separate license from WHDH-TV; conversely, the original WHDH-TV is also of no relation to the current WHDH (channel 7), which serves as the Boston market's NBC affiliate. ==History== The station first signed on the air on November 26, 1957. It was owned by the ''Boston Herald Traveler'' Corporation, along with WHDH radio (850 AM, frequency now occupied by WEEI; and 94.5 FM, now WJMN). Before the ''Herald-Traveler'' signed the station on, the DuMont Television Network applied for the channel 5 license to replace sold-off Pittsburgh DuMont station WDTV (now KDKA-TV) among its DuMont O&O station group, but DuMont shut down before being able to acquire the license.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=KiMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=westinghouse+buys+wdtv&source=bl&ots=gyTTZ6AJci&sig=lqybMltBmAM4yfPI1bwP8hfa22E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zgARVK_PN8O3yASOsIHQDg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=westinghouse%20buys%20wdtv&f=false〕 It was originally an ABC affiliate, but switched to CBS on January 1, 1961.〔http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/jehobden/tvgene.html&date=2009-10-26+00:46:16〕〔http://www.theprovidencechannel.com/whdh/history.htm〕 Initially, it shared studio facilities with WHDH radio located at 6 St. James Avenue in Boston's Back Bay; but this facility was far from ideal for television and in early 1960, the station moved into a newly built studio center at 50 Morrisey Boulevard in the Dorchester section of Boston. WHDH was the first television station in New England to originate live (and later taped) local programming in color. In 1959, WHDH debuted a local version of ''Bozo the Clown'' with Frank Avruch as Bozo; in 1966, 130 episodes taped by WHDH that year would go into national syndication for television stations that did not want to produce a local ''Bozo'' show. Almost as soon as it signed on, the Federal Communications Commission began investigating allegations of impropriety in the granting of the television license. This touched off a struggle that lasted 15 years. As a result, WHDH-TV never had a license longer than six months at a time (television station licenses at the time lasted for three years). In 1969, a local group, Boston Broadcasters Incorporated (BBI), was granted a construction permit for a new station on channel 5 under the call letters WCVB-TV after promising to air more local programming than any other station in America at the time (even though WHDH often broadcast more local programming, in terms of hours per week, than any other commercial television station in the market). The challenger was also critical of the combination of the ''Herald-Traveler'' newspaper and WHDH AM-FM-TV. ''Herald-Traveler'' Corporation fought the decision in court, but lost its battle in 1972; and Boston Broadcasters was awarded a full license. During the final months of its operation, WHDH-TV was court-ordered to sign off daily at 1:00 a.m. so that WCVB-TV could test its equipment. WHDH-TV declined to sell its transmitter and tower to the new WCVB-TV, which subsequently leased space on the tower belonging to WBZ-TV (channel 4). Since WHDH would not sell its studio building and equipment at 50 Morrissey Boulevard, WCVB remodeled a former International Harvester truck dealership in Needham to serve as its studios and offices. The last program that aired on the old WHDH-TV was the 1951 war movie, Fixed Bayonets! The WHDH-TV call letters were subsequently reassigned to channel 7 almost 18 years later to the day of their last use, on March 12, 1990, where they remain to this day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WHDH-TV (defunct)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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