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101-674: WCVB-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States , affiliated with ABC and owned by Hearst Television . The station's studios are located on TV Place (off Gould Street near the I-95 / MA 128 /Highland Avenue interchange) in Needham, Massachusetts , and its transmitter is located on Cedar Street, also in Needham, on a tower shared with several other television and radio stations. Nearby Manchester, New Hampshire ,

202-480: A barter in some cases. Good Day! (TV program) Good Day! (originally known as Good Morning! , and alternately known in later years as The Good Day Show and Good Day! Live ) is an American morning television program which aired from September 24, 1973, until October 11, 1991. Produced by WCVB-TV in Boston , Good Day! aired on that local ABC affiliate for its entire 18 years of production, airing in various timeslots (which changed throughout

303-517: A co-host with Prose; by the start of 1988, he was relieved of hosting duties and was strictly a contributor thereafter. During the years from 1985 through 1991, Prose would by joined by various celebrities as guest co-hosts, many of them stars of the ABC and syndicated programming seen on WCVB. Prose remained the single host of Good Day! until its cancellation in 1991. Ted Reinstein, longtime co-host/correspondent of WCVB's nightly newsmagazine Chronicle ,

404-474: A construction permit to build a new station on channel 5 under the callsign of WCVB-TV after promising to air more local programming than any other station in the United States at the time. The new channel 5 needed to have a different call sign (due to FCC rules at the time that stated that TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership were required to have different call signs). It

505-518: A different license and celebrates station anniversaries using its 1972 sign-on date, it inherited all of WHDH-TV's personnel, including anchorman Jack Hynes and sportscaster Don Gillis , all transferred to WCVB-TV with the termination of the WHDH-TV license. However, WCVB did not inherit its predecessor's CBS affiliation. Boston Broadcasters' plans for a large amount of local programming would have resulted in heavy preemptions of network programming. CBS

606-467: A locally produced program. For a few years beginning in the summer of 1974, WCVB made Good Morning! the cornerstone of their regional New England Network, a six-station link-up between WCVB and a handful of broadcast channels (spanning Rhode Island , Maine and Vermont ) which all agreed to air a select amount of WCVB's locally produced shows. Good Morning! (briefly renamed Good Morning, New England! ) continued to build on its early ratings success as

707-415: 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

808-712: A new deal with WBZ. On June 22, 2022, the BAA announced that the marathon would return to WCVB beginning with the 2023 race, in a partnership with ESPN, which carries the event nationally. In addition to the ESPN simulcast, Hearst's other New England stations—WMUR-TV in Manchester; WMTW in Portland; and WPTZ in Plattsburgh, New York – Burlington, Vermont —also air WCVB's coverage of the race. WCVB also airs NBA games involving

909-465: A new stylized "5" logo (which features an arrow curving upward, rendered in negative space , within the "5"). Having debuted when WCVB first began operations in 1972, this logo surpassed WBZ's Group W font logo (which that station used from 1963 to 1996), as the longest-used numeric logo in New England television history in 2005. WCVB currently produces the following programs: While the station

1010-574: A newly created second digital subchannel of the station on October 1, 2012. This also provides WCVB a backup channel to air ABC programming during breaking or pre-planned local news coverage. WCVB-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, 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 continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 20, using virtual channel 5. As part of

1111-402: A part of its commitment to serving the community through extensive local programming, has run a series of different public service campaigns to help educate people on relevant issues and values of the day. Each campaign has had a different theme, ranging from racial unity to family values and achieving success through continued education. Over the last few decades, these campaigns have consisted of

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1212-836: A part of this network, with its reach now extending into Canadian markets. In 1975, when ABC was looking to revamp its new morning talk and news program AM America , they sent network executives out to a few of the ABC affiliates to observe the production of their local morning programs. Good Morning! was among the few that were used as a case study for the AM America retooling, the other principal one being The Morning Exchange on WEWS-TV in Cleveland . ABC entertainment chief Fred Silverman ended up adopting features from both programs, and launched AM America' s replacement, Good Morning America , in November 1975. Not long after

1313-440: A programming block from 1 to 5 am, branded as 5 All Night , which featured a library of older black-and-white movies and a few recent syndicated programs. During station breaks, announcer George Fennel (who never made an on-camera appearance during the block) would make live announcements and read fan mail from the viewing audience, as various 5 All Night logo backdrops were displayed on-screen. His actual first on-air portrait

1414-462: A regular amount of musical, dance and scripted theater performances. Interviews with politicians and other key newsmakers were also featured, often conducted right in WCVB's studios on the program's set, but sometimes done via satellite. The show would also conduct special segments, or entire broadcasts, outdoors at several different Boston-area events, with the hosts interacting with event participants—and

1515-453: A remote host that year. In searching for Langhart's replacement, the producers of Good Day! decided to hire John Willis' former co-host from WTTG-TV 's Panorama program, Meryl Comer. There was much promotional fanfare of the pairing of Willis and Comer; despite solid chemistry on-screen between the two longtime friends and colleagues, ratings for Good Day! began to decline in the 1978-79 season. After one year as co-host, Comer returned to

1616-411: A revamped format, with only on-screen graphics displaying the already-drawn winning numbers for a minute or so. A rotating group of off-screen voiceovers announced the drawings. In the case of the daily Numbers Game, however, a mid-screen shot of the traditional "number wheels" were featured, with the balls resting on the chosen digits. The Numbers Game drawings continued to air at approximately 7:53, while

1717-461: A third time. She and psychologist Dr. Tom Cottle, who had been a regular contributor to Good Day! , became rotating co-hosts; Langhart co-hosted six months out of the year, while Cottle appeared for the other six. One of the rotating co-hosts remained as a contributor while the other was co-hosting. This format remained until June 1987, when Langhart left the program for the final time. For several months following Langhart's departure, Cottle remained

1818-425: 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

1919-496: 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,

2020-838: Is 20% owned by WCVB's corporate parent Hearst Communications; the station also carried any Patriots appearances on Monday Night Football when ABC held the rights to that package). WCVB was also the official station of Boston College Eagles football during Doug Flutie 's historic 1984 season , that of which culminated with Flutie winning the Heisman Trophy . Until 2005 , when the Boston Red Sox were involved in post-season action, WCVB simulcast those games from ESPN ( MLB divisional playoff games have since moved to TBS ); WCVB also aired select Red Sox games through ABC's MLB broadcast contract from 1976 to 1989 . From 1982 through 2006, WCVB telecast live wire-to-wire coverage of

2121-696: Is believed that Metromedia gave Hearst a right of first refusal offer if WCVB ever went up for sale again. Fox would get its own station in Boston in 1987, when it bought WXNE-TV (channel 25) from the Christian Broadcasting Network and renamed it WFXT (Fox subsequently sold WFXT to the Boston Celtics in 1990, repurchased the station in 1995, and then traded WFXT to Cox Media Group in 2014). In 1971, graphic design firm Wyman & Canaan (now Bill Canaan & Company) developed

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2222-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as 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

2323-580: Is considered part of the Boston media market, making WCVB-TV part of a nominal duopoly with WMUR-TV (channel 9), that city's ABC affiliate; however, the two stations maintain separate operations. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations that are carried by satellite provider Bell Satellite TV and fiber optic television provider Bell Fibe TV in Canada. Since 2010, midday and weekend late newscasts, along with World News Now , are overlaid with Canadian paid programming on those providers; however,

2424-580: Is live broadcast capable. For statewide news coverage throughout Massachusetts, WCVB shares resources with the two other ABC affiliates in the state: WLNE-TV in New Bedford (which serves Providence, Rhode Island) and WGGB-TV in Springfield . WCAP (980) in Lowell runs audio simulcasts of portions of WCVB's morning and evening newscasts on weekdays. As WCVB's newscasts are titled NewsCenter 5 ,

2525-646: Is no longer as involved in locally produced programming as it once was, it has had some influential programs: From 1990 through 2002, WCVB-TV produced coverage of the Boston Pops Orchestra 's annual Fourth of July concert at the Hatch Memorial Shell ; beginning in 1991, the program was simulcast nationally on cable channel A&E (which is partly owned by Hearst), and also aired on WMUR-TV following Hearst's acquisition of that station in 2001. The concert's producer, David Mugar , moved

2626-792: 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

2727-576: The Boston Marathon . Though the broadcasts generally rated higher than the competing wire-to-wire coverage on WBZ-TV, the station announced in November 2006 that it would stop carrying the race, as declining viewership and advertising revenue made it difficult for the station to justify providing all-day coverage, despite production costs being shared with WBZ-TV and the Boston Athletic Association (BAA). The BAA then signed

2828-521: The Eyeopener has consistently been the market's most-watched morning newscast, and the 6 a.m. hour often ranks as the most-watched newscast by viewers in the 25–54 demographic. In September 2015, WCVB announced that they would launch a weekend 5 p.m. newscast starting November 8, 2015. On January 11, 2016, WCVB added two additional weekday newscasts, one at 4 p.m. and a second at 7 pm. WCVB president and general manager Bill Fine stated that

2929-506: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began investigating allegations of impropriety in the granting of the television station's construction permit . This touched off a struggle that lasted 15 years. As a result, WHDH-TV never had a license renewal period lasting more than six months at a time (most television licenses at the time lasted for three years). In 1969, a local group, Boston Broadcasters, won

3030-608: The Fox network on October 9. Channel 5 was included in the original deal, but was concurrently spun off to the Hearst Corporation , which had purchased fellow ABC affiliate KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Missouri , from Metromedia in 1982. That station was sold to allow Metromedia to acquire WCVB (to comply with FCC rules in effect at the time that limited the number of VHF stations owned by a single company to only five), and it

3131-769: The SAFER Act , WCVB temporarily kept its analog channel as one of three nightlight stations in the Boston area (alongside WBZ-TV and WGBH-TV ). The station's nightlight service loop consisted of the official public service program from the National Association of Broadcasters , an episode of This Old House (a nationally distributed show on PBS presented by Boston's WGBH-TV), and reruns of segments from WCVB's newscasts; all were dedicated to instructions and questions about switching to digital television for viewers who have not yet upgraded their old analog sets. The station's analog signal then switched off permanently at

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3232-509: The Washington, DC market. When Comer joined the show, Michael Young joined as a principal location host and studio host. During his tenure, Young began hosting the national Sunday morning series Kids Are People Too for ABC, replacing original host Bob McAllister . For his work on the ABC program, Young began commuting to New York City as well. Not long after, Young left WCVB and moved with Kids Are People Too to Hollywood . During

3333-405: 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 a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

3434-534: 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

3535-584: The 4 p.m. hour resulting in low ratings, changes were made in November 2016; at this time, the half-hour NewsCenter 5 at 4:00 premiered, and Inside Edition moved to 4:30 pm. As of 2019, Inside Edition has been dropped from the schedule and has moved to WHDH. WCVB now airs 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of local news from 4 to 6:30 pm, with a break from 6:30 to 7 p.m. for ABC World News Tonight (coincidentally, anchored by WCVB alum David Muir since September 2, 2014), then picking up again from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Due to its commitment to local programming,

3636-503: The 4 p.m. slot, moving there on August 22, 2011; it was replaced in the 9 a.m. timeslot by Live! with Regis and Kelly , which moved to the station after a 23-year run on WHDH. Oprah , meanwhile, moved to weekday mornings at 1:05 a.m. for the remaining weeks of its run. On January 11, 2016, WCVB moved The Meredith Vieira Show from 3 p.m. to 1:07 am, where it remained until it concluded its run in September. On

3737-569: The Boston Celtics via the league's contract with ABC . The station has aired the Celtics' victories in the 2008 and 2024 NBA Finals and their 2010 and 2022 NBA Finals appearances. WCVB presently broadcasts 43 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours, 35 minutes each weekday, five hours on Saturdays and six hours on Sundays). The station operates an Aérospatiale AS350B helicopter entitled "Sky 5" that

3838-479: The Boston market within that same year, also due to a lack of financial viability in a struggling economy; among them were WBZ-TV 's Evening Magazine , WHDH-TV 's Ready to Go and Our Times , WGBH-TV 's The Ten O'Clock News , and a host of others. The final episode of Good Day! aired on Friday, October 11, 1991. The following Monday, WCVB replaced it with ABC's The Home Show , which premiered in 1988 but had not been carried by WCVB up to that point. When

3939-559: 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

4040-599: The Willis/Comer tenure, the producers brought in Eileen Prose as a substitute host. Prose, a former 1966 Miss America contestant, was a multi-talented television personality who brought her skills as a host, interviewer and singer to Good Day! . Her capacities helped so much that by August 1979, after Comer's departure, Prose was named permanent co-host. In 1980, after two years in New York, Langhart returned to

4141-483: The annual MDA Labor Day Telethon (before the program's 2013 move to ABC as a short-form broadcast, although it did stay on WCVB; the program would be discontinued after the 2014 edition) and the 2004 preemption of Saving Private Ryan (one of several ABC stations that preempted the film out of concern over the graphic war battle scenes and profanity that were left intact in the uncut ABC telecast and fear of resulting FCC fines) for another movie, Far and Away . Until

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4242-615: The cancellation of Good Day! was announced, WCVB's management offered Eileen Prose the hosting role on a new weekly Sunday morning lifestyle/discussion program. This offer resulted in the series Sunday with Eileen Prose . The half-hour program premiered on November 3, 1991, and aired each Sunday morning at 10:00 on WCVB. Sunday was taped on the former Good Day! set, and like the long-running weekday morning series, it featured Prose interviewing and having discussions with experts in various fields, ranging from economics and politics to sports and entertainment. Also as on Good Day! , Frank Avruch

4343-516: The completion of the nightlight service on July 13, around 12:00 a.m. In 2019, WCVB shifted from physical channel 20 to 33 because of the spectrum incentive auction , though it does not broadcast (before and after the repack) between channels 38 to 51 which were removed from the television bandplan , repacking stations into channels 2 to 36. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,

4444-403: The current NewsCenter 5 brand. Since then, WCVB has been known for exceptional news coverage and has consistently been at the top of the news ratings since the early 1980s. Through the next couple decades, the station boasted the most-watched news team of Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson who married each other while serving as co-anchors. However, by the late 1990s and early 2000s, the station

4545-513: The debut of the station's hour-long 5 p.m. newscast. In both time periods, Oprah always held first place among the program's competitors, and consistently kept WCVB's neighboring newscasts at number one. Winfrey's decision to end her daytime talk show in May 2011 resulted in many stations scrambling to replace it with equally strong programming. The Ellen DeGeneres Show —which WCVB had aired at 9 a.m. since 2005—was chosen to replace Oprah in

4646-647: The digital multicast network through 2015. As part of the renewal, Hearst also signed agreements to add the network as digital subchannels of WCVB-TV and sister stations KCRA-TV in Sacramento, WBAL-TV in Baltimore , KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City and WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina . As WCVB did not operate any additional digital multicast feeds outside of main channel 5.1, MeTV was added on

4747-417: The end of each show, that night's three players would return to play a bonus round. Each would place a cylinder on a numbered space from 1 to 12. A motorized cube would then be let go, to knock the cylinders down. After 30 seconds, any player that had a cylinder still standing won the cash amount (ranging from $ 7,500 to $ 200,000) associated with their number choice. The $ 200,000 prize was won several times during

4848-405: The first stations owned by Hearst to make the upgrade). This change resulted in the debut of a new newscast set designed by FX Group and on-air graphics. However, channel 5 kept Hearst Television's standardized music package. On September 7, 2010, WCVB expanded its weekday morning newscast to 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours, with its start time moved to 4:30 am. Four days later on September 11, 2010,

4949-481: The first time since 1998 that WCVB swept all of its newscast timeslots. Only WFXT's 10 p.m. news drew more viewers than any of the "big three" affiliates' late evening newscasts. That victory was short-lived, however, as WHDH regained the lead at 11 p.m. during the May 2007 sweeps, after another close battle. WBZ-TV led in the 11 p.m. timeslot from late 2007 to early 2010 with WCVB maintaining second place in that timeslot during that period. WCVB has since regained

5050-841: The following: The station's signal is multiplexed : WCVB is one of a handful of ABC-affiliated stations and one of several Hearst-owned ABC affiliates that broadcast their high-definition signals in 1080i rather than the 720p format of most other ABC stations. This includes WCVB's ABC-affiliated sister stations WMUR-TV in nearby Manchester, New Hampshire, WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh, KMBC-TV in Kansas City, and KETV in Omaha , as well as stations not owned by Hearst in eight other markets. On July 24, 2012, Hearst Television renewed its affiliation agreement with MeTV to maintain existing affiliations with eight Hearst-owned stations currently carrying

5151-400: The general public—as they staged their activities. The original hosts of Good Morning! were John Willis, Janet Langhart and Mortisha Palmer. Ken Stahl was also a featured remote/on-location host during the first several years of the show. Longtime Boston TV personality Frank Avruch, who hosted several locally-produced shows at WCVB in addition to serving as the station's booth announcer,

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5252-470: The half-hour specials were hosted by Frank Avruch and Valerie Navy. They featured interviews and discussions that were relevant to "Family Works!", a public service campaign run by WCVB from 1991 to 1993 that focused on issues related to families and their dynamics. Topics covered included day care, divorce, caring for senior citizens, and violence in television programming. The last of these monthly specials aired on December 26, 1993, as WCVB soon initiated

5353-420: 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

5454-504: The last ten minutes of Chronicle in 2009. On August 15, 2011, daily drawings ended their second stint on WCVB, and moved exclusively to the Massachusetts Lottery website; the station continues to air Mega Millions or Powerball featuring larger jackpots, at the discretion of the station. In 1987, United Press International awarded WCVB "Best Sports Reporting" in the nation. For fourteen years, WCVB's Mike Lynch hosted

5555-672: The late 1990s, WCVB broadcast the 1954 film White Christmas annually during the holiday season, preempting ABC network programming. On October 30, 2014, WCVB preempted ABC's broadcast of the Halloween special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown to air a Steve Harvey special. Great Pumpkin aired on sister station WMUR. WCVB was originally in the running to become the Massachusetts State Lottery 's host station in late 1986, when WBZ-TV relinquished

5656-526: The latter has carried the normal WCVB-TV feed in recent years. The channel 5 allocation in Boston was first occupied by the original WHDH-TV, which signed on the air on November 26, 1957. The station was owned by the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, along with WHDH radio (850 AM, now WEEI ; and 94.5 FM, now WJMN ). It was originally an ABC affiliate, but switched to CBS in 1961. However, almost as soon as it signed on,

5757-471: The lead at 11 p.m. On May 14, 2007, starting with the 5 p.m. newscast, WCVB began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition , although the majority of the field reports remained in 4:3 standard definition for a few months. The station was the first in the Boston market, as well as New England, to make the transition (the duopoly of KCRA-TV and KQCA in Sacramento, California , were

5858-400: 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

5959-452: The lottery rights to WNEV-TV (channel 7), which began broadcasting the drawings and all other related broadcast property in August 1987. In 1993, when WHDH-TV (the former WNEV-TV) was purchased by Sunbeam Television , the lottery did not renew the station's contract for another cycle. It was announced soon after that WCVB would acquire the rights. From March 7, 1994, to May 19, 1998, WCVB was

6060-419: 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

6161-473: The new channel 5, forcing the station to rent tower space for its transmitter from WBZ-TV (channel 4); during the final months of its operation, WHDH-TV was court-ordered to sign off daily at 1 a.m. so that WCVB-TV could test its equipment. WCVB purchased a former International Harvester sales and service facility in Needham to serve as its studio facility along Route 128 , which the station continues to operate from to this day. Although WCVB operates under

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6262-411: The newscast expansion "...addresses an expressed need of Boston's viewers by providing additional options to receive NewsCenter 5 at new times". In February 2016, WCVB announced that it would also add a nightly prime time newscast at 10 p.m. on its MeTV subchannel, The 10 O'Clock News on MeTV Boston , beginning February 29, 2016. The 10 p.m. newscast was cut to a half-hour on March 26, 2016; at

6363-481: The next two years, although they were joined for several months in 1982 by another third co-host, Jim Caldwell. Willis retired from the show in September 1983, and was succeeded by Tim White , who remained with the program for just over one year. In 1985, Prose became the single year-round host of the program. Langhart, whose Boston TV exposure had most recently been as a reporter/news contributor on CBS affiliate WNEV-TV (present-day WHDH ), returned to Good Day! for

6464-486: The official station for Lottery Live , the weeknight broadcasts of the Massachusetts State Lottery drawings. Unlike predecessor host station WHDH, where both Lottery Live weeknight drawings aired between 7:50 and 8 pm, WCVB chose to air the daily Numbers Game at 7:53 (during Chronicle ) while the featured game (e.g., Mass Millions ) aired earlier at 6:50 (during NewsCenter 5 at 6:00 during

6565-451: The other 80%), along with its use predating ESPN's 1979 existence. However, there is no overlap in content or appearance between WCVB's sportscasts and the ESPN program beyond the latter's occasional use of WCVB video with credit for press conference and interview segments. Concurrent with WCVB's sign-on on March 19, 1972, the station began its news operations as News 5 . This branding was used until 1973 when its newscasts were retitled under

6666-421: The premiere of Good Morning America , WCVB station manager Bob Bennett confronted Silverman at an affiliate's convention and accused him of deliberately stealing the title of Good Morning! ; the two similarly-titled programs were now running back-to-back on WCVB's morning lineup. No legal cease and desist action was finalized against ABC in the matter, however. Finally, after months of possible confusion between

6767-432: The program as a third co-host, alongside Willis and Prose. Coinciding with Langhart's return, the program adopted the modified title of The Good Day Show , which lasted during the 1980–81 season. Langhart left the show again at the close of that season when she was hired to be a field correspondent on the 1981 syndicated weekday revival of You Asked for It . Willis and Prose then continued together as Good Day! hosts for

6868-441: The program to WBZ-TV and CBS in 2003. On September 8, 1987, WCVB became the Boston home of The Oprah Winfrey Show , having outbid WBZ-TV (which aired the show at 9 a.m. during its first season) for the long-term local syndication rights. For 24 years, Oprah served as the lead-in to WCVB's evening newscasts, first for the 6 p.m. edition of NewsCenter 5 from 1987 to 1994, then moving to 4 p.m. on September 5, 1994, upon

6969-567: The program's three-year run on WCVB. It also served as the runoff program for the various contests associated with the Massachusetts Lottery. One such contest featured contestants playing for a cruise for 20, a Chevrolet Blazer SUV , and $ 25,000 a year for life. Bonus Bonanza was canceled shortly before WCVB's lottery contract ended, airing its final episode in March 1998. The nightly lottery drawings moved back to WBZ-TV two months later on May 20, 1998. The drawings returned to WCVB in August 2004 in

7070-476: 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

7171-439: The rights. In the months leading up to the winning bid, WCVB management had asked Janet Langhart to host the nightly lottery drawings if the station won the contract. Langhart was reportedly angered by the proposition, accusing WCVB of trying to minimize her from the role of respected journalist and talk show host, and also inferring a racial motivation behind the offer (Langhart is African American). Ultimately, WCVB lost its bid for

7272-405: The road and broadcasting from locations outside of the Boston area and around the world. Good Day! , along with The Morning Exchange on Cleveland 's WEWS-TV , served as a prototype for the format of ABC's Good Morning America . Good Day! lasted until 1991. During the 1970s, WCVB-TV was the first television station in southern New England to run a 24-hour program schedule. The station ran

7373-411: The same day, Ellen moved to 3 pm, and Inside Edition was moved to the 4 p.m. slot, from the 7 p.m. slot it had held since September 1994. This then freed up 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. for two new newscasts. The 4:30 newscast was stated to be a fast-paced rundown of the day's news, while the 7 p.m. newscast covers longer-length stories of special interest. With the scheduling of

7474-549: The show as a part of their effort to produce more local programming than any other network affiliate in the country. Bruce Marson, who had produced the first season of WGBH-TV 's successful children's series Zoom , was hired by WCVB management to launch the new 90-minute live morning variety program they were creating. Good Day! , which first premiered in 1973 as Good Morning! , was a morning variety program with light news features, but with an overall focus on interviews with celebrities and experts in particular fields, along with

7575-486: The specialty games ran at 11:10 on weeknights. In 2008, for the first time in the Lottery's broadcast history, midday Numbers Game drawings were introduced, with the results running at the bottom of the screen, at 12:50 p.m. weekdays, during Who Wants to Be a Millionaire . The weeknight Numbers Game drawings became part of NewsCenter 5 Prime Time Update , a five-minute news and weather segment that began airing within

7676-797: The spring and summer of 1994, and during ABC's World News Tonight in the months thereafter). In early 1995, the specialty games moved to 11:10 p.m. (later 11:20) during NewsCenter 5 Tonight . Dawn Hayes, who emceed the drawings on WHDH, was retained as host. Frequent substitute hosts for Hayes on WCVB were Kristen Daly (later a news reporter/anchor for WABU and WLVI ) and Nancy O'Neil, wife of former Red Sox pitcher Dennis Eckersley . The Massachusetts Lottery (in association with Jonathan Goodson ) also backed an hour-long Saturday night game show, Bonus Bonanza , which debuted on February 4, 1995. Hayes served as co-host with Brian Tracey. Bonus Bonanza had randomly drawn contestants play elimination games (similar to The Price Is Right ) to win big cash prizes. At

7777-458: The station was quick to preempt programs, including underperforming ABC prime time shows. Most of the time, these programs were picked up by independent stations such as WQTV (channel 68, now WBPX-TV ) or Worcester -based WHLL (channel 27, now WUTF-TV ). Since the mid-1990s, WCVB has carried ABC's entire programming schedule, although it occasionally preempts network programming in favor of locally produced specials and movies. Notable examples are

7878-462: The station's sports segments are likewise branded as SportsCenter 5 ; weather segments were similarly branded as WeatherCenter 5 prior to 2001. WCVB is believed to be the only local station permitted to use the SportsCenter name, owned by ESPN, for its sportscasts, owing to its ownership by Hearst (which owns 20% of ESPN) and affiliation with ABC (whose parent, The Walt Disney Company , owns

7979-457: The subsequent national ABC morning television program, and eventually by its competitors on CBS , NBC , and on other networks. The program has no relation to the current group of local morning shows produced by the Fox owned-and-operated television stations , all of which use the Good Day title. WCVB-TV, which had signed on the air one year before the premiere of Good Morning! , developed

8080-714: The time, all four of Boston's local news operations, along with New Hampshire's WBIN-TV , had 10 p.m. newscasts in some form, and ratings issues played into the reduction. Beginning with the noon newscast on April 5, 2018, WCVB implemented an updated version of Hearst Television's standardized graphics package for its newscasts, which are now optimized for the full 16:9 letterboxed format. The group-wide roll-out began with Orlando sister station WESH (NBC) in January and ended with sister stations WTAE in Pittsburgh and KMBC in Kansas City (both of which, like WCVB, are also ABC affiliates) on April 23, 2018. Since 1972, WCVB-TV, as

8181-681: The two programs, the Boston-based Good Morning! changed its name to Good Day! on Monday, August 2, 1976, the same day that the program began to be syndicated to TV markets beyond New England. In 1978, the first significant host changes took place on Good Day! . Janet Langhart left the program in June of that year, as she accepted NBC 's offer to be the New York -based co-host on the network's new daytime talk program America Alive! . Ken Stahl also made his last appearance as

8282-476: The weekend morning newscast was expanded to three hours, running from 5 a.m. to 8 am. In spring 2013, well-known and popular meteorologist Cindy Fitzgibbon joined WCVB as a weatherperson. Anchor JC Monahan moved to Chronicle and anchor of the 5 p.m. news. Fitzgibbon was on WFXT's morning newscast for nearly a decade, and now appears on the NewsCenter 5 EyeOpener and noon newscasts. In recent years,

8383-724: The weekly New England Patriots show Patriots Preview and Patriots All Access with exclusive one on one sit down interviews with Bill Parcells , Pete Carroll and Bill Belichick . Until 2009 , WCVB's sports department produced Patriots preseason games. These telecasts were also seen on sister station WMTW in Portland, Maine , and WNAC-TV in Providence, Rhode Island . In addition, WCVB formerly preempted ABC programming to air all Patriots games that aired as part of ESPN Sunday Night Football . Presently, this occurs during ESPN Monday Night Football Patriots game telecasts (ESPN

8484-399: 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 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

8585-402: The years) between 9 and 11 a.m. on WCVB's morning schedule. The program was later syndicated to seventy-one American television markets, expanding its viewership beyond its primary New England viewer base. Good Day! is credited for being one of the prototypes for ABC's Good Morning America , as its format, which combined news and information with talk and lifestyle features, was adopted by

8686-406: Was a correspondent and substitute host for Good Day! in its final years. In September 1991, WCVB general manager S. James Coppersmith announced the cancellation of Good Day! after 18 years, due to New England's then-current economic downturn putting severe constraints on the local broadcast stations. The demise of Good Day! followed a wave of other locally produced programs coming to an end in

8787-448: Was a regular contributor and segment host, often discussing new happenings in entertainment and interviewing guests as well. In January 1992, after only two months as host of Sunday , Prose announced that she was leaving WCVB to look onto other ventures. She made her last appearance on the show soon after, and at that time, the show's title was officially shortened to Sunday . Prose was immediately succeeded as host by Susan Wornick , who

8888-409: Was a regular contributor on Good Morning! , hosting segments with a focus on arts and entertainment. After the first year, Palmer left the program, and it was the on-screen camaraderie of Willis and Langhart that became synonymous with the show. For much of its run, Good Day! was broadcast live from a set that merged both a large, sweeping living room area with a sizeable kitchen, the latter of which

8989-523: Was also critical of the combination of the Herald-Traveler and WHDH-AM-FM-TV. Herald-Traveler Corporation fought the decision in court, but lost in 1972 and Boston Broadcasters was awarded a full license. The local group was led by acoustic expert Leo Beranek . The original WHDH-TV signed off for the last time on March 18, 1972, and was replaced by the new WCVB-TV early the next morning. The Herald-Traveler refused to hand over its facilities to

9090-476: Was chief meteorologist at WLVI until that station's news department shut down two months prior as a result of its purchase by WHDH parent Sunbeam Television, was hired by WCVB as the weekend evening meteorologist. For the February 2007 sweeps ratings period, WCVB placed first in every local news timeslot it competed in. Channel 5 even displaced WHDH in total viewers and the 25–54 demographic at 11 pm, marking

9191-561: Was displayed as part of a donation pledge drive for the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon . The portrait had been covered from view and as the tally had reached a certain amount, a piece of the portrait would be revealed to the viewers until it was completely uncovered, revealing what Fennel looked like. Another staple of 5 All Night was Simon's Sanctorum , a program similar to Elvira's Movie Macabre that showcased old black-and-white horror movies; it

9292-427: Was entrenched with WBZ-TV, and in any event was even less tolerant of preemptions than CBS. More or less by default, WCVB affiliated with ABC. Making good on its promise, WCVB aired more local programming than any other television station in the nation throughout the 1970s and 1980s. One of its local programs, Good Day! , which first premiered in 1973 as Good Morning! , broke ground by taking its entire production on

9393-399: Was hosted by a character named Simon (portrayed by Gary Newton), who often referred to his viewing audience as to being "moths lured to a flame" and "Dearly Devoted". Simon's costume consisted of an old top hat, and fluorescent green facial makeup with black circles painted around each eye and gloves that had the fingers cut out of them. To add to an extra eerie effect, a fluorescent black light

9494-433: Was in a period of transition as it saw major competition from a resurgent WHDH-TV. At the same time, the station, known for the longevity and stability of its on-air staff, saw the end of its longtime anchor team of Curtis and Jacobson (as well as their marriage, which ended in divorce at the same time). Jacobson continued to anchor at channel 5, while Curtis left for regional cable news channel New England Cable News , which

9595-470: Was joined by former rival Harvey Leonard who left WHDH to become co-chief meteorologist with Albert. Widely regarded as two of Boston's top meteorologists, Leonard and Albert were honored by the Associated Press in 2005 for "Best Weathercast in New England". Leonard became the sole chief meteorologist following Albert's retirement in February 2009. In February 2007, meteorologist Mike Wankum, who

9696-474: Was jointly owned by Hearst until Comcast bought out its stake in the channel in 2009. Jacobson retired from WCVB on July 18, 2007. In mid-October 2001, WCVB launched its weather radar , "StormTrak 5 Live Doppler", currently known as "Storm Team 5 HD Doppler", becoming the first station in the market to operate its own radar. It is located west of Boston in Hopkinton . In 2002, chief meteorologist Dick Albert

9797-521: Was not pleased with the prospect of being subjected to numerous preemptions of its programs in the nation's fifth-largest market at the time (as of 2016, it is the seventh-largest), especially since WCVB would have inherited WHDH's status as CBS's second-largest affiliate and largest on the East Coast. It refused to have anything to do with WCVB, and moved its programming back to WNAC-TV, which had been Boston's original CBS affiliate from 1948 to 1960. NBC

9898-678: 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 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

9999-547: Was then WCVB's weekday afternoon news anchor and investigative reporter. Later in 1992, Wornick was replaced with series producer Valerie Navy as host. During the hosting stints of Wornick and Navy, WCVB news reporter Byron Pitts also appeared as host on some weeks. By year's end, WCVB made the decision to cancel Sunday , and the last episode aired on December 27, 1992. The studio set for Good Day! saw further use for monthly Sunday morning specials that WCVB aired from January through December 1993. Titled Family Works Sunday ,

10100-562: Was used to enhance the makeup effect on Simon's face and eyes. His eyes actually glowed by the use of fluorescent paint on a pair of special contact lenses. Boston Broadcasters sold WCVB to Metromedia in 1982 for $ 220 million, the costliest sale ever made for a local station at the time. In 1986, Metromedia sold its television stations to the News Corporation (then-owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio), which later used Metromedia's group of independent stations to launch

10201-420: Was used very often for cooking segments. In the mid-to-late 1980s, the in-studio set came to resemble more of a giant, elegant-looking open foyer , with a kitchen island moved into the center for the cooking segments. Good Day! also broke ground by taking its entire production on the road and broadcasting from locations outside of the Boston area and around the world—a feat of which was considered exceptional for

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