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82-549: WMUR-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Manchester, New Hampshire , United States, serving as the ABC affiliate to most of New Hampshire. Owned by Hearst Television , the station maintains studios on South Commercial Street in downtown Manchester, and its transmitter is located on the south peak of Mount Uncanoonuc in Goffstown . Manchester is part of the larger Boston television market , making WMUR-TV part of

164-572: A TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around the world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require

246-548: A barter in some cases. WOOK-TV WOOK-TV was a television station that broadcast on channel 14 to Washington, D.C. , United States. Operating from 1963 to 1972 (using the WFAN-TV call sign from 1968 to 1972), it was the first television station in the United States to orient its entire programming to an African-American audience, along the lines of co-owned WOOK radio . Mounting license troubles for

328-441: A broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines the broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires

410-473: A 10 p.m. newscast on WBIN-TV until early 2017, when that station went off the air as a result of the FCC's spectrum auction. On November 5, 2018, WMUR introduced another new graphics package, this time for the full 16:9 widescreen presentation, but like the previous version, they are styled differently from those of WCVB to avert any confusion between the two stations (and their other sister stations that have

492-525: A 1961 allocation revision, began telecasting, with plans to carry 80 percent of WOOK-TV's programming. An attempted 1971 sale of WMET-TV to the Christian Broadcasting Network never closed, and channel 24 folded on January 14, 1972. In 1967, WOOK's programming began to shift to include more local news and public affairs content. This change would allow the station to spend less on films, where it had found itself uncompetitive with

574-438: A buyer was found immediately for WMUR radio, there were few takers for channel 9. Finally, in early 1957, he agreed in principle to sell WMUR-TV to Storer Broadcasting . However, Storer came under fire when it announced plans to move the station's transmitter to just outside Haverhill, Massachusetts —only 20 miles (32 km) north of Boston. It soon became apparent that Storer intended to move all of channel 9's operations across

656-484: A different lineup that, while including WMUR's newscasts and some of its syndicated fare, replaced ABC programs with additional syndicated programming, as well as Fox's children's block and prime time lineup. W16BC was the only Fox affiliate to serve a portion of the Burlington – Plattsburgh media market until WFFF-TV began broadcasting on August 31, 1997. On December 19, 2001, WMUR dropped all Fox programming after

738-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

820-476: A music show that was syndicated to other stations. The Precola DeVore Show , covering fashion and beauty topics, was hosted by Precola DeVore, who became one of the first black women business owners in Washington when she founded a charm school in 1953; she was nationally recognized for helping to break the color barrier in modeling. Channel 14's connection with WOOK radio also had its advantages. Six days

902-478: A new licensee for channel 14, now licensed to Arlington, Virginia , D.C. mayor Walter E. Washington expressed his desire that the new channel 14 be minority-owned. Overruling his initial decision, in 1984, administrative law judge Edward Kuhlmann selected the bid of Urban Telecommunications Corporation, finding that since Urban was financially qualified, its management and operations were more integrated than those of previous winner WSCT-TV. After years of extensions,

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984-399: A news operation). The station's signal is multiplexed : On October 3, 2011, WMUR added sub-channel 9.2 with programming from classic television network MeTV . In 2021, WMUR added subchannel 9.3 carrying Shop LC programming and later QVC on subchannel 9.5. From August 22, 1994, until January 18, 2022, WMUR operated repeaters in northern New Hampshire. Until December 19, 2001, two of

1066-667: A nominal duopoly with that city's ABC affiliate, WCVB-TV (channel 5); however, the two stations maintain separate operations. As a result, WMUR is the only New Hampshire–based television station with a news operation. In addition to WCVB-TV, WMUR-TV shares common coverage areas with four sister stations : the Portland, Maine , duopoly of ABC affiliate WMTW and CW affiliate WPXT ; and the Burlington, Vermont , duopoly of CW affiliate WNNE in Montpelier and Plattsburgh, New York –based NBC affiliate WPTZ . The station signed on

1148-575: A number of Eaton-owned outlets, WOOK-TV was one of three that received a full-term renewal of its license. In 1966, United's AM and TV stations in Washington came in for competition when two groups vied to take them over: Washington Community Broadcasting Company, led by journalist Drew Pearson and which also sought to take over the radio station, and Washington Civic Television, whose principals included WRC-TV sportscaster Jim Simpson and Lewis Shollenberger , former head of Radio Liberty in Munich . At

1230-635: A station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

1312-483: A station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as

1394-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

1476-507: A week, WOOK disc jockey Bob King hosted Teenarama Dance Party , an in-studio dance show with a black teenage audience. Over a seven-year run on the air (though King left in a dispute with management in 1968 ), Teenarama hosted rising stars and famous musicians including Chubby Checker , Dee Dee Sharp and Brook Benton , as well as musical talent in town to play the Howard Theatre . Teenarama Dance Party would later be considered

1558-578: Is about 45 miles (72 km) north from Boston while Concord is about 60 miles (97 km). Boston's VHF stations have Grade A signals in Manchester and Grade B signals in Concord, while the UHF stations have Grade B signals in Manchester but spotty signals in Concord. On paper, southern New Hampshire is large enough to be a market in its own right. If it were ever to break off from Boston, it would rank in

1640-1093: Is based at The Inn at Bay Point in Meredith , and the Seacoast Bureau is based at Harbor Place in Portsmouth . In addition, WMUR and WCVB share news footage for stories occurring within the other station's coverage area; WCVB also operates a live truck for news gathering that is based at WMUR's studios in Manchester. Audio simulcasts of WMUR's newscasts are broadcast on WTPL (107.7 FM) in Hillsborough , WTSL (1400 AM) in Hanover , WTSN (1270 AM) in Dover , WASR (1420 AM) in Wolfeboro , and WEEY (93.5 FM) in Keene . In lieu of its own weather radar , WMUR uses live radar data from several regional sites operated by

1722-582: Is considered part of the Burlington–Plattsburgh market, although WMUR is still available. The rest of the state receives NBC from that network's affiliates in either Boston or Portland. On January 1, 2017, Merrimack -licensed Telemundo owned-and-operated station WNEU (channel 60) began simulcasting NBC programming via its new Boston O&O WBTS-LD (channel 8, now Telemundo O&O WYCN-LD in Providence) on its second digital subchannel; however,

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1804-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

1886-427: Is sometimes streamed live on the website. On August 2, 2011, WMUR began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition and introduced a new set and graphics package, which are styled differently from those of WCVB to avert any confusion between the two stations (along with its news music). WMUR began producing a half-hour weeknight 10 p.m. newscast for its MeTV subchannel on March 5, 2012, which competed with

1968-664: The Democratic Presidential primary, went to the WMUR studios to run a live ad for his campaign. WMUR-TV began broadcasting on UHF channel 59 in November 1998. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 59, which

2050-527: The Megan's Law list. After posting a 3D virtual tour of its TV studio facilities online, it briefly became the most visited attraction online in the world. Beginning in 1998, the station made significant financial, technical and staff investments into its Internet strategy. This included 24-hour original news segments, weather coverage by a professional meteorologist and sales executive dedicated to TV and online advertising. In 2000, WMUR, CNN and WMUR.com simulcast

2132-505: The National Weather Service . During weather segments, the radar system used by WMUR that utilizes this data is presented on-screen as "Storm Watch 9 Storm Tracker", which is provided through a graphics system by Weather Services International. A live video feed of this radar is offered on WMUR's website. During instances of severe weather year-round, the station may extend local newscasts to provide coverage; this coverage

2214-926: The New Hampshire presidential primary debates held at the TV station. This was the first widely promoted and executed worldwide live streaming video event. In September 2000, Imes Communications reached an agreement to sell the station to Emmis Communications , who then traded WMUR to Hearst-Argyle Television, now Hearst Television, in exchange for that company's three radio stations in Phoenix, Arizona — KTAR , KMVP , and KKLT . In 2004, WMUR-TV celebrated fifty years of broadcasting. On September 24, 2005, WMUR became available on satellite via DirecTV in Coös , Carroll , Grafton , and Sullivan counties in northern and west-central New Hampshire. Coös and Carroll counties are part of

2296-399: The Portland, Maine , market and thus had WMTW as their ABC affiliate, while Grafton and Sullivan counties are part of the Burlington–Plattsburgh market and hence received ABC programming from WVNY ; these areas had no source of in-state news until WMUR's uplinking. The station was featured in a fictional manner in the sixth season of The West Wing . Congressman Matt Santos , running in

2378-512: The Spanish International Network , the second such "satellator", initially authorized on an experimental basis. After the FCC gave its approval to feed translators by satellite, W14AA returned to air as the Washington affiliate of SIN (now known as Univision ). In order to accommodate the new full-power channel 14, this station moved to channel 48 in 1989 and is today WMDO-CD . As the FCC began taking applications for

2460-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

2542-493: The political talk program Close Up , which airs on Sundays at 10 a.m. During election seasons, WMUR is well known for organizing and producing candidate debates for ABC News , as well as CNN, before the first United States presidential primary; the debates have been held at Saint Anselm College . In addition to its main studios, WMUR operates two news bureaus in New Hampshire. The station's Lakes Region Bureau

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2624-727: The 1970s, Eaton's entire chain of radio and television stations, including WMUR, were under constant scrutiny by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the cases involving two other television stations ( WOOK-TV in Washington, D.C. , and WMET-TV in Baltimore ), as well as two other radio stations ( WOOK (AM) in Washington and WFAB in Miami ), their licenses were revoked entirely, each for different reasons. (An administrative law judge recommended

2706-698: The Cannon Mountain transmitter site with WMUR-LP. It launched in May 1995 and, unlike the other Littleton facility, always aired ABC programming. Since all three stations were low-powered, they were exempt from the transition to digital-only broadcasting on June 12, 2009. W38CB was removed from service on December 27, 2018, to enable T-Mobile to launch 600 MHz services; the license was surrendered for cancellation on February 10, 2020. W27BL and WMUR-LP turned off their analog signals on July 13, 2021. They had pending construction permits to convert to digital, until

2788-542: The FCC canceled those two licenses on January 18, 2022. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany , was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to

2870-609: The Hearst acquisition (Hearst has never affiliated any of their stations with Fox, a rarity in American broadcasting); in early 2002, W27BL and WMUR-LP began to carry WMUR-TV's full schedule, including ABC programming. In 1995, WMUR purchased land and a building at its current location. This building was rebuilt as an 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m) state-of-the-art broadcast center; it moved to this new location in January 1996. WMUR

2952-559: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

3034-473: The United Broadcasting station group, economic difficulties faced by independent and UHF stations, and an inability to upgrade channel 14's facilities to be competitive in the market led to the closure of WFAN-TV on February 12, 1972. In 1953, Richard Eaton's United Broadcasting Company, owners of WOOK ( 1340 AM ) , WFAN ( 100.3 FM ) and Rockville –based WINX , among other outlets in

3116-457: The VHF stations in purchasing the rights to attractive motion pictures. That year, it added two and a half hours a day of local and United Press International news hosted by Tex Gathings and a new talk show, Controversy , hosted by Dennis Richards. Controversy went through several host changes in its early months on air, while the new news show met with poor reception because of the small size of

3198-582: The WOOK-TV news department. Also in 1967, WMET-TV (moved to channel 24 in an allocation revision six years earlier), the Baltimore station, finally began broadcasting. Early the next year, Channel 14 also added weekly hours in Italian and Spanish, and on February 14, it changed call letters from WOOK-TV to WFAN-TV, matching Eaton's other Washington station, Spanish-language FM outlet WFAN 100.3. More than

3280-529: The affiliation and ceased operations on March 31, 1989, due to insufficient viewership. There has not been a CBS affiliate in the state since then. The situation with WMUR and sister station WCVB is not unlike that of WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland , which operated as an NBC affiliate until 2016 even though it is part of the Washington, D.C., market and competed with that city's NBC owned-and-operated station, WRC-TV . The only NBC affiliate to be based in

3362-607: The aforementioned WNHT, have offered New Hampshire-focused local newscasts in competition with WMUR; the most recent of these operations, on WBIN-TV , was canceled in 2017 after that station sold its spectrum in an FCC auction, leaving WMUR once again as the only television news source in New Hampshire. WMUR was one of the longest-serving affiliates of the Muscular Dystrophy Association 's "Love Network", having carried The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon and its successors annually on Labor Day and/or

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3444-429: The air by July 1. The deadline was pushed back to December 1; United notified the FCC that it intended to appeal the order. On April 26, 1974, the FCC ruled that both licenses should be revoked so that new applications could be accepted for Washington's channel 14 and Baltimore's channel 24. Channel 14 remained unused by a full-power station in Washington for more than 20 years after the closure of WOOK-TV. In 1976, it

3526-674: The air on March 28, 1954, as the first television station in New Hampshire. It was founded by former governor Francis P. Murphy , owner of WMUR radio (610 AM; now WGIR ) through a company known as the Radio Voice of New Hampshire, Inc. Murphy beat out several challengers, including William Loeb III , publisher of the Manchester Union-Leader . It broadcast from a Victorian-style house on Elm Street in Manchester, alongside its sister radio station. In addition to carrying ABC programming (the station having been affiliated with

3608-464: The back of Northern Virginia antennas aimed toward Washington, but this request was denied. What was to become WNVC was constructed on channel 56 instead, and on its sign-on in June 1981, W14AA was no longer necessary. Later in the year, CVETC sold W14AA to Los Cerezos Television Company. Los Cerezos (Spanish for "Cherry Trees") had established in 1980 a satellite-fed translator station on channel 56 of

3690-609: The border to Massachusetts and reorient it as the Boston market's third VHF station. The outcry led regulators to reject Storer's request to build a new tower near Haverhill. Storer then backed out of the deal, and the station remained in Murphy's hands until his death in December 1958. His estate finally sold the station a few months later to Richard Eaton's United Broadcasting. Storer eventually fulfilled their Boston ambitions in 1966 with

3772-487: The company's financial condition. The February 27 edition of the Washington Post , as well as the next day's issue of Broadcasting magazine, carried a full-page "In Memoriam" ad for WFAN-TV. The ad, taken out by Eaton, diagnosed channel 14 as being "choked to death literally because of lack of power to cover greater Washington", because of the failure of a common tower site for D.C. television stations in 1966 and

3854-577: The death of Pearson the year before. (Washington Community would eventually win the 1340 frequency held by WOOK radio, with the result being the launch of WYCB in August 1978.) United also attempted to upgrade WFAN-TV's signal, boosting its effective radiated power to 1,265 kW from a transmitter site in Bethesda, Maryland ; however, the FCC denied the move because of overlap with WMET-TV's signal. On February 12, 1972, United took WFAN-TV dark, citing

3936-468: The early 1980s, but a change in ownership marked the beginning of a new era for WMUR. In July 1981, following Richard Eaton's death, WMUR was sold to Columbus, Mississippi , businessman Birney Imes Jr. and his company, Imes Communications, which also owned that city's WCBI-TV , as well as WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, West Virginia . Years later, several veterans, including Bonnar, said they only stayed at

4018-573: The early 1990s, WBZ operated a news bureau in Manchester which was re-established on Elm Street in November 2006. Prior to 1988, the sub-market was served by WMUR and PBS member station WENH-TV (which was part of the New Hampshire Public Television state network). On February 1, 1988, WNHT (channel 21, now occupied by WPXG-TV ), an independent station based in Concord, became southern New Hampshire's first CBS affiliate and began to produce local newscasts. WNHT lost

4100-579: The evenings only and would not feature a network affiliation or a schedule of films; in addition, Eaton, planned to build out the Baltimore construction permit as a semi-satellite of WOOK-TV. The station signed jazz musician Lionel Hampton as its musical director. WOOK-TV would launch from WOOK radio's studio facility in the Chillum Castle Manor subdivision, on 1st Place, NE. Initially planned to debut in September 1962, WOOK-TV's start

4182-585: The existence of those networks; likewise, The CW and MyNetworkTV do not have any affiliates in New Hampshire, and the state receives Fox from the network's affiliates in Boston, Massachusetts , Portland, Maine , or Burlington, Vermont. WMUR has always promoted the fact that it is the only local television news source in the state; the station's slogan since 2002—"No One Covers New Hampshire Like We Do"—reflects this. At various points, channel 50 (as WNDS, WZMY-TV, and WBIN-TV) and WGOT (channel 60, now WNEU), as well as

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4264-420: The floor was so slanted that cameras rolled on their own. WMUR continued to broadcast in black-and-white until 1973, long after the Boston stations had all upgraded to color capability. Two of the few things the station had going for it during this period were The Uncle Gus Show , hosted by Gus Bernier for more than 20 years, and an increasingly active news department led by Tom Bonnar and Fred Kocher. Throughout

4346-452: The hearing-related freeze on later facility improvements, and revealed that in nearly nine years of operation, the television station had lost $ 1.45 million—$ 153,000 of that in 1971 alone. Eaton also noted competition from Washington's other independent stations—longstanding VHF independent WTTG-TV and UHF newcomer WDCA —for programming and advertisers. Thirteen employees lost their jobs, while five continued to provide engineering services to

4428-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

4510-446: The interview show Washington Speaks and several syndicated shows aimed at an African American audience. However, going against Eaton's promise of a year earlier, WOOK-TV filled its remaining hours with films, primarily pre-1945 fare. It also produced some general-audience entertainment programs, including a high school quiz show, children's program Aunt Mary's Birthday Party , and a talent show. Musical director Hampton produced at WOOK

4592-604: The licenses of two other radio stations, WJMO (1490 AM) and WCUY (92.3 FM) in Cleveland Heights, Ohio , be revoked as well, but this was not acted upon by the commission due to Eaton's death in June 1981.) WMUR, KECC-TV in El Centro, California , and WMET-TV were investigated over allegations of bribery by Eaton of ABC-TV employees so WMUR and KECC would get more favorable terms in their ABC affiliations contracts. The station continued to be run very cheaply into

4674-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

4756-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

4838-434: The mid-Atlantic states, filed for television channels 18 in Baltimore and 50 in Washington. With no applications pending for channel 14 at Annapolis, Maryland , Eaton petitioned the FCC to move the channel 14 allotment to Washington, which it did in 1955; Eaton also acquired channel 14 equipment at auction from the bankrupt KACY of Festus, Missouri . In February, Eaton announced that WOOK-TV would debut with programming in

4920-499: The most important program in WOOK-TV/WFAN-TV's broadcast history. WOOK-TV also produced for local and national advertisers commercials for its target market. The station's production department counted among its clients Budweiser , Safeway , Sinclair Oil , Newport cigarettes and Speed Queen washers and dryers. On March 1, 1967, the Baltimore station, with the call letters WMET-TV and having been moved to channel 24 in

5002-468: The network since its sign-on), WMUR aired daily newscasts, local game shows and movies. The station's name, WMUR, is in reference to the first three letters of Murphy's last name. In 1955, channel 9 boosted its signal significantly, providing a strong signal extending well into the Boston area. Murphy was well aware of this and began airing programming that had previously not been available in Boston. The following year, however, Murphy decided to retire. While

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5084-399: The new station, known on-air as NBC Boston , is focused on Boston and eastern Massachusetts rather than New Hampshire. NBC also operates WBTS-CD (channel 15), licensed to serve Nashua ; however, under a channel sharing agreement, it broadcasts from Needham, Massachusetts , over the transmitter of Boston-based WGBX-TV (channel 44). There were no UPN or WB affiliates in the state during

5166-461: The new station. The station finally debuted on March 6, 1963. It was the District's second UHF television station, after public WETA-TV (channel 26), which had gone on the air in 1961. Some 90,000 to 100,000 UHF converters were in place when channel 14 signed on. At the outset, channel 14's programming included a number of Black-hosted series. The station aired two daily newscasts, as well as

5248-417: The next renewal cycle, in 1969, the FCC designated Washington Community's challenges alongside WOOK's and WFAN-TV's license renewals for hearing. Washington Community had become the only challenger for channel 14 when Washington Civic Television dropped out and merged with it, bringing Truman-era Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold into its fold. It then dropped out of the television fight in 1970 after

5330-468: The night before since the late 1960s. MDA moved the telethon from syndication to ABC in 2013 as the MDA Show of Strength ; as a result, WMUR continued to broadcast the program for two more years until the telethon ended in 2014. During the 1960s and 1970s, one of the station's well-known local programs was a weekday children's program known as The Uncle Gus Show . Unlike Boston's astronaut Major Mudd or

5412-529: The northern portion of New Hampshire, one of them (W38CB in Littleton ) carried WMUR's full ABC schedule, while the other two (W27BL in Berlin and W16BC, later WMUR-LP, in Littleton) were full-time primary affiliates of Fox. All of them, including its main channel, carried WMUR's newscasts as well as Fox Sports telecasts. While WMUR and W38CB continued to carry the full ABC schedule, W27BL and W16BC offered

5494-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

5576-441: The programming and call letters was changing at the newly renamed WFAN-TV in 1968. John Panagos, the station's general manager and vice president of United, was replaced with E. Carlton "Bud" Myers; Bob King left, leaving Teenarama Dance Party to rotate hosts until it ended in 1970; and an attempt to unionize led to a walkout at the end of August. In 1965, even as the Federal Communications Commission gave short-term renewals to

5658-432: The purchase of the channel 38 license as WSBK-TV . Soon after taking over, United laid off all but nine of WMUR's employees and reduced local programming to its two daily newscasts. For the next 22 years, United ran channel 9 on a shoestring budget, devoting most of its efforts to managing Manchester's cable franchise. It paid almost no attention to the station even as equipment broke down. The studio's upkeep also suffered;

5740-554: The radio stations. That November, amid calls to delete channel 14 from television use in Washington and convert it to land mobile use, United found a buyer for WFAN-TV: two Milwaukee businessmen, Robert S. Block and Marvin Fishman, who proposed operation of channel 14 on a subscription television basis and would pay $ 250,000 for the channel if the FCC approved their plan. In 1973, while the hearing examiner's initial decision found against WOOK and preferred its competing application to

5822-493: The renewal of that station, it found United qualified to be a licensee and recommended renewal of channel 14's (unchallenged) license. United asked the FCC to keep the WFAN-TV license active while it tried to sell it, but the FCC said that because of the multiple and interrelated proceedings against Eaton that were likely to take years, that would simply take too long. The commission ordered United to put WFAN-TV and WMET-TV back on

5904-552: The state was WRLH (channel 31) out of Lebanon , which operated from 1966 to 1968 and 1971 to 1974. Channel 31 returned to the air under a new license in 1978 as WNNE , now based in White River Junction, Vermont . WNNE broadcast NBC programming into parts of western New Hampshire from then until 2018, when it moved to Montpelier, Vermont , and became the CW affiliate for the Burlington–Plattsburgh market. Much of this area

5986-462: The station in hopes a wealthier owner would see its potential. Imes made WMUR a significant influence in New Hampshire by giving it a badly-needed technical overhaul, as well as upgrading its news department. In September 1987, the station moved from its original Elm Street studios to facilities in the historic Millyard area of the city. In 1994, WMUR became both a primary and secondary affiliate of Fox . They also launched three low-powered repeaters in

6068-409: The stations were primarily affiliated with Fox but simulcast channel 9's newscasts and some syndicated programs (the third repeater carried all WMUR programming, including ABC network programs). The two Fox stations started simulcasting WMUR when WMTW (at that time separately owned) relocated its transmitter away from Mount Washington . A third translator, W38CB, was also licensed to Littleton, sharing

6150-449: The top 100 of all U.S. media markets . However, CBS 's ownership of WBZ-TV (channel 4) makes this unlikely as it would result in the dilution of that station's advertising revenue, along with viewer upheaval at the loss of newscasts from the Boston area. This has been seen when Providence 's stations in the southern portion of the Boston market attempted to claim market exclusivity resulting in some complaints from area cable customers. In

6232-522: The widely franchised Bozo , host Uncle Gus Bernier wore no costume except an angler's hat. For many years, WMUR's nighttime sign-off was accompanied by "New Hampshire Naturally" by The Shaw Brothers. The music was synchronized to bucolic scenes of a fly fisherman casting his line into a mountain stream, a covered bridge , the Old Man of the Mountain , flowers, fall foliage and other images. This theme

6314-447: Was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition to its analog era VHF channel 9. In February 2010, WMUR introduced a new slogan, "It's how you know." This slogan often promoted its local news, weather, its photo-sharing site, "uLocal", and other ideas of interest that would lead to its website. WMUR's Hearst-owned sister stations KCRA and KSBW also used this slogan, which

6396-678: Was delayed due to technical challenges. It missed another launch date, in February, in part due to equipment issues and also because it had a problem to sort out in the Black community. Leaders in the Urban League and the NAACP worried that the station would not represent the community well, that WOOK-TV would depict African Americans "in the tap-dancing, shouting type of program", much as in radio; Eaton pledged not to program "distasteful" shows on

6478-526: Was reactivated in the form of translator W14AA, relaying the Central Virginia Educational Television Corporation 's WNVT from Annandale, Virginia ; WNVT was licensed to rural Goldvein, Virginia , too far to the south to adequately cover the Washington suburbs. CVETC attempted to have the full-powered channel 14 allocation moved to Fairfax, noting that the current transmitter at Arlington often came in

6560-503: Was replaced at some point by " The Star-Spangled Banner ". WMUR-TV broadcasts 30 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday and four hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition, WMUR produces New Hampshire Chronicle , a regional version of the Chronicle newsmagazine series that originated on Boston sister station WCVB-TV, which airs weeknights at 7 p.m.; and

6642-609: Was seen at the beginning of each video segment on YouTube. In July 2012, during a retransmission consent dispute, Hallmark Movie Channel was a substitute for Hearst Television's ABC affiliates, WMUR-TV and WMTW on Time Warner Cable . In December 2015, the Democratic National Committee announced that WMUR would not be included as a co-sponsor of the Democratic debate due to a labor dispute between that station and its unionized employees. Manchester

6724-461: Was the first television station in the country to develop a significant Internet presence beginning on October 8, 1995. It was the first television station to hire a full-time employee dedicated to streaming its newscast live and archived online for later viewing. It was also the first television station to use the Internet to supplement its broadcast news by posting additional information online like

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