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During its time with NBC, channel 7 cleared the network's entire programming schedule (an exception was the network's early morning newscast at the time of the switch, NBC News at Sunrise, which ended on September 6, 1999; its successor, Early Today, was carried by WHDH for the remainder
This was confirmed in January 2016, when the network announced it would start a new station, to be known as NBC Boston, at the start of 2017. WHDH's owner, Sunbeam Television, unsuccessfully sued NBC in an attempt to prevent the network from moving its affiliation. To serve as the broadcast outlet for NBC Boston, NBC acquired WTMU-LP, a low ...
WHDH alone was the television home of the Celtics in the 1965–66 season, with coverage concentrated on away games during the playoffs. Fred Cusick did the Bruins' games; Don Gillis called the Celtics' games. In October 1958, WHDH launched a weekly candlepin bowling show that aired at noon on Saturdays.
WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts, on virtual channel 7; WHVD-LD in Huntsville, Alabama; WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; WJDW-LD in Tazewell, Virginia; WJTC in Pensacola, Florida, an ATSC 3.0 station. WKLE in Lexington, Kentucky; WLTZ in Columbus, Georgia; WLUC-TV in Marquette, Michigan; WLVI in Cambridge, Massachusetts, uses WHDH's spectrum ...
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Boston: 2 5 WGBH-TV: PBS: World on 2.2 : 4 20 WBZ-TV: CBS: Start TV on 4.2, Dabl on 4.3, Fave TV on 4.4 : 5 33 WCVB-TV: ABC: MeTV on 5.2, Story Television on 5.3
WJMN was originally WHDH-FM: a sister station to, and simulcast of, WHDH (AM).In 1965, to comply with a Federal Communications Commission regulation limiting simulcasting between commonly owned AM and FM stations in the same city, WHDH-FM began separate programming with an automated middle-of-the-road format in stereo.
Taken as a whole, its local newscasts are the lowest rated of Boston's "Big 3" affiliates, having dipped behind a resurgent WHDH-TV as well. In the mid-1960s, it adopted the Eyewitness News format that had been pioneered at Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV. WBZ was the first Boston station to have a regularly-scheduled late afternoon news ...
Gillis pioneered the 11 p.m. sports report in Boston during his tenure at WHDH-TV, becoming the dean of the city's sports anchors, and also would host highly popular candlepin bowling programs on the station. When the show debuted on October 4, 1958, it was hosted by Jim Britt, and Gillis was the co-host. When Britt left in 1967, Gillis began ...