WHNH-CD

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WHNH-CD
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City Manchester, etc., Vermont [1] (nominal city of license)
Channels
BrandingYCN
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Vision Communications
  • (Triple Seven Media, LLC)
History
FoundedJanuary 24, 1996
First air date
March 1998(26 years ago) (1998-03)
Former call signs
  • W49BU (1996–1998)
  • WVBK-LP (1998–2003)
  • WVBK-CA (2003–May 2013)
  • WVBK-CD (May–October 2013)
  • WYCX-CD (2013–2021)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 49 (UHF, 1998–2004), 2 (VHF, 2004–2013)
  • Digital: 2 (VHF, 2004-2024)
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 26996
Class CD
ERP 3 kW
HAAT 459.9 m (1,509 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 41°42′13″N72°49′55″W / 41.70361°N 72.83194°W / 41.70361; -72.83194
Links
Public license information
Website ycnnow.com

WHNH-CD (channel 2) is a low-power, Class A independent television station serving Hartford, Connecticut, United States, but nominally licensed to Manchester, Vermont. [1] Owned by Vision Communications, the station maintains a transmitter on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut. It currently brands as YCN, an initialism for "Yankee Communications Network".

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History

A construction permit for what is now WHNH-CD was granted on January 24, 1996, for operation on UHF channel 49, to serve Manchester, Vermont; [3] the new station was issued the call sign W49BU. [4] The original owners, Heritage Broadcasting Company of New York (who had applied for channel 49 in 1994, several months before selling Fox affiliate WXXA-TV (channel 23) in Albany, New York, to Clear Channel Communications), sold the station to Vision 3 Broadcasting on June 19, 1997. [5] [6] Vision 3 modified the permit to add Londonderry as a second city of license on January 8, 1998. [7] The station was designed to be a repeater of WVBG-LP (channel 25) from Albany; however, when channel 49 signed on in March 1998 as an independent station, it was the second of Vision 3's three stations to launch, [8] after W39CE (channel 39, later renamed WVBX-LP) in Easton, New York, which signed on in December 1997. [9] WVBG-LP itself would not go on the air until August 1998. [10] Channel 49 became WVBK-LP on April 24, 1998. [4]

On October 5, 1998, WVBK-LP, along with parent station WVBG-LP, became a UPN affiliate; [11] it already carried the UPN Kids block, [12] but the network's prime time programming had previously been seen in the Capital District through secondary affiliations with WXXA-TV [12] and Pax station WYPX-TV (channel 55), [13] as well as cable carriage of WSBK-TV from Boston. [11] [13] The lineup of UPN and syndicated programming was supplemented by several sports packages, including Big East football and basketball, the Boston Red Sox (the telecasts of which were dropped following a territorial complaint by the New York Yankees), [14] and the Boston Celtics. [15]

The UPN affiliation ended at the start of 2000 when cable-only "WEDG-TV" (known later as "UPN 4") signed on as a joint operation between Time Warner Cable and WXXA-TV. [16] WVBK-LP would then revert to being an independent station, heavily emphasizing its status as a primarily over-the-air station; [17] that June, Vision 3 put its sister stations, WVBG-LP and WVBX-LP, up for sale, [18] and by 2001 much of the station's schedule was taken up by programming from America One [19] and the Resort Sports Network (RSN), the predecessor to Outside Television. [20] While WVBG-LP was sold to Wireless Access in 2001 [21] (subsequently moving to channel 41 in Greenwich) and WVBX-LP was sold to Venture Technologies Group in 2003 [22] (subsequently moving to channel 15 first as WNYA-CA in Albany, then as WEPT-CA in Kinderhook), Vision 3 kept WVBK-LP, making it a separate station. America One was dropped in 2003, making the station a full RSN affiliate. [23] [24] The station moved to channel 2 in 2004 [25] and upgraded to class A status. [26]

On February 28, 2005, Vision 3 purchased the construction permit for W47CS [27] (channel 47) in Windsor [28] from MTC North, [29] who was granted the permit on April 22, 2003. [28] Vision 3 changed its call letters to WVBQ-LP on June 16, 2005, [27] moved the station to Newport and Charlestown, New Hampshire on February 16, 2006, [30] and signed it on that March [31] as a satellite of WVBK-CA.

Vision 3 filed to sell WVBK-CA and WVBQ-LP to New Hampshire 1 Network, a company controlled by William H. Binnie, in November 2010; [32] the deal was called off in June 2011. [33] Vision 3 then filed to sell WVBQ-LP to Cross Hill Communications that November; under the terms of the deal, Cross Hill also held an option to acquire WVBK, [34] which was exercised in June 2012. [35] Under Cross Hill, the station increased its local programming, including the addition of a half-hour weeknight newscast (which originally aired at 6 p.m. with repeats at 6:30 p.m. and from 10–11 p.m., and as a result was initially branded as YCN News Hour).

WYCU-LD began broadcasting in digital on channel 26 in December 2012; although this facility was applied for as WVBQ's digital companion channel, Cross Hill ended broadcasts on analog channel 47 on December 20, 2012, and returned the analog WVBQ-LP license to the FCC, [36] which canceled it on January 3, 2013. [27] Channel 26 had changed its call letters from WVBQ-LP to WYCU-LD on December 13, 2012. [37] In May 2013, WVBK-CA converted to digital broadcasts; [1] on October 18, it changed its call letters to WYCX-CD. [4] Following their digital conversions, WYCX-CD and WYCU-LD added subchannels to carry RTV, Tuff TV, and PBJ. [38]

The station changed its call sign to WHNH-CD on October 12, 2021.

On October 3, 2024 the FCC approved Vision Communication's proposal to move WHNH-CD's RF channel to channel 25, and their city of licence to Hartford, Connecticut, although, the change has not taken place yet. [39]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WHNH-CD [40]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
2.1 480i 4:3 WHNH-LDMain WHNH-LD programming
2.2TheGrio TheGrio
2.3NewsNet NewsNet
2.4WHNHLocal programming

Analog-to-digital conversion

WHNH-CD (as WVBK-CA) shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, in May 2013, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation VHF channel 2.

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