Binnie Media is New England’s largest locally owned media company that reaches 1.5 million people each week, including over 580,000 radio listeners in New England, with digital and outdoor assets delivering millions of impressions to people in Maine, … Plus as the school year turned to remote learning, Nicole created an amazing, uplifting and clever music video for the kids at Portsmouth Middle School. The station is owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with Marlborough, Massachusetts-licensed Univision-owned station WUNI (channel 66). [73] While the new newscasts competed against the longer-established WMUR-TV news operation, Lee Kinberg, the executive vice president of NH1 News Network, stated that the newscasts were "very different from Channel 9," and included more coverage of the Seacoast Region compared to WMUR. "[75] In addition to the weeknight newscasts, the station announced its intention to launch a four-hour morning newscast and an hour-long noon newscast by 2015. [77], For the former channel 50 in the Boston area, see, True Crime Network affiliate in Derry, New Hampshire, Television station in Massachusetts, United States, Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with, Univision owns these station licenses, however they are operated by. On March 3, 2011, Portsmouth-based Carlisle One Media, Inc., a company controlled by Bill Binnie, announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase WZMY-TV. [citation needed], On July 17, 1973, channel 50 returned to the air with a test transmission, with plans to return the station to the air later that year, possibly as New Hampshire's CBS affiliate. The program included some cartoons like Scooby-Doo and Super Friends in the morning hours, religious shows like The 700 Club late in the morning, sitcoms on midday afternoons, cartoons for an hour or so after 3 p.m., more sitcoms in the evenings and late nights, and a movie in prime time. The station acquired some of the programming assets of WNHT (channel 21, frequency now occupied by WPXG-TV) in 1989 after that station shut down on March 31; the deal did not include the channel 21 license or WNHT's CBS affiliation. WORK-LD was licensed to operate in analog as WORK-LP (channel 33), and used the call sign W33AK from 1989 until becoming WORK-LP in 2012. This page was last edited on 14 August 2020, at 00:16. The current iteration of channel 50 signed on the air on September 5, 1983[9] as WNDS, an independent station known on-air as "The Winds of New England."

[14], Soon after assuming control, in August 2005, Shooting Star Broadcasting announced that WNDS would change its call letters to WZMY-TV and its branding to "My TV". The Lowell studio was closed down that spring; finally, in June the power company pulled the plug at the Windham studios during a Maverick rerun, taking WXPO off the air.

At the time of the relaunch, two other local programs also existed: a talk show entitled MyTV Prime[16] (which originally aired from 9 to 10 p.m.[16] and later from 8 to 9:30 p.m.), and Wild World (a review of action sports around the region, which was produced by Dan Egan). All three stations were owned by New Hampshire 1 Network, Inc., a sister company to Carlisle One Media that previously owned WYCN-CD in Nashua, New Hampshire (now NBC O&O WBTS-CD); historically co-owned with that station, the three repeaters were not included in a subsequent sale of WYCN. Owned by Calipatria Broadcasting Company, LLC, but operated by Entravision. [60][61] Kaprielian returned to WBIN-TV on August 20, 2012, providing hourly forecasts from 2–9 p.m.;[62] he also provided forecasts for Binnie Media's radio stations. 8,062 talking about this. The original show under this format was My New England,[16] but variants focusing on specific topics were subsequently added, such as My Premier Bride and My Good Health and My Home and Garden.

Get the top New Hampshire news of the day. [39], On May 4, 2017, WBIN-TV filed to channel-share with WUTF-DT (channel 66, now WUNI). Many of these programs were produced in collaboration with independent production companies through what the station referred to as "MyTV New England Studios." The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 35. During its first year on the air, WNDS ran a number of locally produced programs, including a cooking show (The Yankee Gourmet), a children's show (Just Kidding Around) and a weekly prime-time variety show (The Best of New Hampshire). In its later years as "My TV", the station adopted a "Branded Entertainment" model, focusing on local product placement. Advertisers were scared off when the Lowell Sun blacklisted anyone who bought commercials on the station.

Bills went unpaid for several months. [63], WBIN-TV ended its INN-produced newscast on April 26, 2013, leaving Kaprielian's forecasts as the only local news content on the station. 'Out For Blood' Red Cross Blood Drive is Tuesday April 28, Stay On Track With Nashua Community College's Online Classes And Remote Learning Resources, Nominate An Essential Worker For a Chance to Win a Well-Deserved $100 Gift Card, MUST SEE! WWJE is operated separately from WUNI's joint sales agreement (JSA) with Entravision Communications-owned UniMás affiliate WUTF-TV (channel 27) in Worcester. In January 1997, the station began running Global Shopping Network programming 15 hours a day, with entertainment programming continuing from 3 to 11 p.m. On April 5, 1997, GSN began programming the station full-time with a 24-hour home shopping format as part of a planned purchase of the station. [59] In addition to the full newscasts, some news/weather updates as well as standalone weather updates from chief meteorologist Al Kaprielian were provided throughout the day. [44] WBIN-TV began phasing out its syndicated programming following the announcement of the spectrum sale; by December 2017, the station's schedule consisted primarily of Antenna TV programming, with the talk show Harry (which also aired on NBC Boston) serving as its last syndicated program.

The station formerly broadcast local newscasts from a studio located in Concord, branded as the NH1 News Network or NH1 News. [35][36][37][38], On February 17, 2017, Binnie Media announced that WBIN-TV had sold its spectrum in the FCC's spectrum incentive auction for $68.2 million; concurrently, the station's "remaining television license rights" would be acquired by an undisclosed "major television group" for an estimated $10–30 million in what it described as a "channel-sharing sale". Owned by a Mexican company, operated by Entravision. Until the announcements were made, Boston and Southern New Hampshire had been the largest market where MyNetworkTV had not yet signed a full-time affiliate. Portsmouth Middle School Teachers Made This Awesome Music Video For Their Students. [41] Univision exercised its option to buy the WBIN-TV license for $16,764,133.70 on May 8, 2017. When regular programming was restored in June, these three shows were not resurrected. [34], WBIN was the flagship of Binnie Media, a group that also included WYCN-LP (channel 13) in Nashua and 16 northern New England radio stations formerly owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners. [63][65] WBIN indicated plans to further expand its newscast offerings,[65] including long-range plans for a morning newscast;[63] Binnie stated his intention to construct "a public affairs infrastructure that will attract people who are serious about news in New Hampshire. His quirky, offbeat style made him a minor celebrity in Southern New Hampshire. [63] There was no regularly-scheduled sports report. Also get all latest news updates from auto sector at auto.hindustantimes.com. It is offered on cable providers across southern New Hampshire, Windham County, Vermont on Xfinity channel 14, and in extreme southern Maine, as well as on DirecTV and Dish Network throughout the Boston market. Binnie originally indicated that WBIN-TV would retain its affiliations with MyNetworkTV and Universal Sports;[22] however, the station announced on June 15 that it would leave MyNetworkTV and become an independent again as part of an increased local emphasis, with the service's programming moving to WSBK-TV (channel 38) on September 19,[25][26][27] while Universal Sports restructured itself into a cable- and satellite-only channel in January 2012.