WWJE-DT
A Derry, New Hampshire television station serving the Boston area as an affiliate of True Crime Network.
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Overview
WWJE-DT is a television station licensed to Derry, New Hampshire, and serving the Boston, Massachusetts, media market. The station currently carries True Crime Network programming and is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside WUNI, the company's Univision station serving the region. WWJE-DT and WUNI share studio and transmission facilities on Parmenter Road in Hudson, Massachusetts, while WWJE operates separately from WUNI's joint-sales arrangement with Entravision's UniMás affiliate WUTF-TV. The station's present identity is the result of several major changes in ownership, programming strategy, technology, and call sign. Channel 50 first returned to the air in 1983 as WNDS, an independent station branded “The Winds of New England.” Its schedule combined syndicated sitcoms and films with cartoons, religious programming, local sports, and locally produced shows. In 1989, WNDS acquired selected programming assets from the former WNHT, but not that station's license or CBS affiliation. During the 1990s, the station broadened its entertainment schedule and added overnight home-shopping programming from Global Shopping Network. A proposed sale to GSN collapsed in 1997 after the shopping network failed to make a required payment, and WNDS returned to its previous general-entertainment format. After its 2004 sale to Shooting Star Broadcasting, the station became WZMY-TV and adopted the “My TV” identity. In 2006 it became Boston and southern New Hampshire's MyNetworkTV affiliate, while retaining a version of the My TV branding. The station changed direction after Carlisle One Media, controlled by Bill Binnie, acquired it in 2011. Renamed WBIN-TV, it left MyNetworkTV later that year and returned to independent programming, emphasizing local content and syndicated entertainment. Its digital subchannels carried services including Universal Sports, TheCoolTV, Live Well Network, WeatherNation TV, Grit, and locally branded or Antenna TV-related programming at different times. WBIN also developed local programming across its different eras. Earlier output included cooking, children's, public-affairs, sports, newsmagazine, bowling, and variety programs. Later “My Shows” programs promoted New England businesses and lifestyle topics, while the station also carried locally produced wrestling, talk, food, sports, reality, and community-interest programs. The station once operated local newscasts under the NH1 News and NH1 News Network brands, making it one of only a small number of New Hampshire stations producing local news. Those newscasts ended in February 2017 as the station wound down its independent operation. In 2017, WBIN sold its broadcast spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission's incentive auction for $68.2 million. The station also agreed to a channel-sharing and license transaction involving Univision's WUTF-DT, later WUNI. Univision exercised an option to acquire the license for $16,764,133.70, and the acquisition was completed in December 2017. WBIN ceased using its former channel-35 transmitter in September 2017 and began broadcasting through a channel-sharing arrangement on channel 27, while retaining virtual channel 50. After the sale, the station transitioned away from its previous syndicated schedule. It became a Justice Network affiliate and adopted the WWJE-DT call sign in January 2018. The station is now principally a broadcast outlet for true-crime and related factual programming rather than a locally originated general-entertainment station.
History
The modern channel 50 service began broadcasting on September 5, 1983, as WNDS, an independent station licensed to Derry and marketed as “The Winds of New England.” Its early schedule mixed syndicated sitcoms, films, cartoons, religious programs, and local sports. The station produced or carried New Hampshire-oriented programming, including cooking, children's, variety, bowling, high-school sports, college hockey, minor-league baseball, public affairs, and sports-talk programs. In 1989 it obtained selected programming assets from WNHT after that station left the air, without acquiring the WNHT license or CBS affiliation. WNDS experimented extensively with its business model. It added Global Shopping Network programming overnight in 1996 and expanded the service to most of the broadcast day in early 1997. GSN planned to purchase the station and began a full-time home-shopping format in April, but financial difficulties and a missed payment caused the proposed transaction to collapse. General entertainment returned in June 1997. CTV of Derry continued to own WNDS until selling it to Shooting Star Broadcasting in 2004. Shooting Star relaunched the station as WZMY-TV in 2005, using the “My TV” brand and revising its schedule in response to viewer feedback. The station subsequently joined MyNetworkTV when that service launched in September 2006. WZMY retained a My TV-oriented on-air identity while carrying the new network's programming. Its local output increasingly used branded-entertainment and product-placement formats, including regional lifestyle programs such as My New England, My Premier Bride, My Good Health, and My Home and Garden. Other locally produced or locally oriented shows covered wrestling, food, talk, sports, community affairs, and entertainment. In 2009, seven employees were laid off during an operational restructuring, and New Age Media assumed operation of the station. The station added several digital multicast services during this period. Carlisle One Media, controlled by Bill Binnie, announced its acquisition of WZMY in March 2011; the transaction closed in May, and the station became WBIN-TV. The new owner ended the MyNetworkTV affiliation later in 2011 and made WBIN an independent station with a stronger emphasis on New Hampshire and New England programming. Its digital lineup changed repeatedly, including affiliations with Universal Sports, TheCoolTV, Live Well Network, WeatherNation TV, Grit, and locally branded programming related to Antenna TV. WBIN was the flagship television outlet of Binnie Media, a broader New England media group that also included radio stations and WYCN-LP. The station launched NH1 News local newscasts from a Concord studio, and its local news operation made it one of the few New Hampshire television stations producing regular newscasts. In February 2017, however, Binnie Media announced that the station had sold its spectrum in the FCC incentive auction for $68.2 million. Local newscasts ended as part of the resulting operational wind-down. The station's former channel-35 transmitter in Hudson, New Hampshire, shut down on September 15, 2017. WWJE's license entered a channel-sharing arrangement with WUTF-DT, which was later identified with WUNI. Univision exercised its contractual option to acquire the license for $16,764,133.70, and the purchase was completed on December 21, 2017. The station then became a Justice Network affiliate and changed its call sign from WBIN-TV to WWJE-DT on January 12, 2018. Its current service is transmitted from facilities shared with WUNI in Hudson, Massachusetts, and primarily provides True Crime Network programming to the Boston market.
- 2018
WWJE-DT identity launches
[1]The station adopted the WWJE-DT call sign and became a Justice Network affiliate under TelevisaUnivision ownership.
- 2017
Spectrum sale and channel sharing
[1]WBIN sold its spectrum in the FCC incentive auction, ended its former transmission arrangement, and began channel sharing with WUTF-DT.
- 2011
Station becomes WBIN-TV
[1]Carlisle One Media completed its purchase, renamed the station WBIN-TV, and later ended its MyNetworkTV affiliation.
- 2006
MyNetworkTV affiliation begins
[1]WZMY became the Boston-area MyNetworkTV affiliate when the service launched.
- 2005
Station becomes WZMY-TV
[1]Shooting Star Broadcasting relaunched WNDS as WZMY-TV under the My TV brand.
- 1997
Global Shopping Network experiment ends
[1]A planned GSN purchase failed after a missed payment, and WNDS resumed its general-entertainment format.
- 1989
WNDS acquires selected WNHT programming assets
[1]WNDS obtained programming assets from the former WNHT after that station ceased broadcasting.
- 1983
WNDS begins broadcasting
[1]Channel 50 returns as WNDS, an independent station serving New Hampshire and the Boston market.
- 1975
Original channel 50 license is deleted
[1]The earlier WXPO-TV license was deleted after unsuccessful attempts to return the station to regular operation.
- 1969
WXPO-TV launches on channel 50
[1]The original channel 50 allocation in the Boston market was used by WXPO-TV, which later ceased operations and ultimately lost its license.
Products and positioning
A Boston-market digital television station focused on nationally distributed true-crime and factual programming, with a history of independent, network-affiliate, syndicated, and locally produced programming.
Television station · 2018
WWJE-DT broadcast service
The station's current digital broadcast service, licensed to Derry and serving the Boston area. It primarily carries True Crime Network programming and is distributed through a channel-sharing arrangement with WUNI.
Local news programming
NH1 News
A former local-news operation produced for the station from a Concord studio. It supplied regional news under the NH1 News and NH1 News Network identities before being discontinued during the 2017 operational wind-down.
Independent television programming · 2005
My TV / WZMY programming
The former WZMY-TV service combined syndicated entertainment, MyNetworkTV programming, regional lifestyle shows, branded entertainment, and other locally oriented productions.
Brand decisions
2018
Relaunch as WWJE-DTProduct launchBackground
Following Univision's acquisition of the license, the former WBIN service required a new identity and programming direction.
Action taken
The call sign changed to WWJE-DT and the station joined the Justice Network.
Aftermath
WWJE-DT became a specialized true-crime and factual programming outlet in the Boston market.
2017
Sell spectrum and enter a channel-sharing arrangementOtherBackground
Binnie Media announced that WBIN-TV had won $68.2 million in the FCC incentive auction and that the remaining license rights would be transferred to a major television group.
Action taken
The station shut down its former channel-35 transmission, shared channel 27 with WUTF-DT, and transferred its license to Univision.
Aftermath
Univision completed the acquisition in December 2017; the station became a Justice Network affiliate and adopted the WWJE-DT call sign.
Spectrum-auction proceeds. $68.2 million (2017)
2011
Return to independent programmingStrategyBackground
After the acquisition by Carlisle One Media, the station's new owner sought a stronger local emphasis.
Action taken
WBIN-TV left MyNetworkTV and resumed operation as an independent station.
Aftermath
The station expanded and changed its mix of local, syndicated, and multicast programming before the 2017 spectrum transaction.
2006
Join MyNetworkTVStrategyBackground
The launch of MyNetworkTV created an opportunity for WZMY to obtain the Boston market's full-time affiliation while retaining its My TV identity.
Action taken
WZMY became a MyNetworkTV affiliate when the network launched in September 2006.
Aftermath
The affiliation ended in 2011 after the station was acquired by Carlisle One Media.
1997
Return from home-shopping format to general entertainmentStrategyBackground
A proposed Global Shopping Network acquisition faltered after the network failed to make a required payment.
Action taken
CTV of Derry canceled the sale and restored WNDS's previous general-entertainment schedule.
Aftermath
The station continued under CTV ownership until its 2004 sale to Shooting Star Broadcasting.
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