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WHCT-LD
WHCT-LD (channel 35) is a Low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power television station licensed to both Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut, United States, affiliated with MeTV. The station is owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, and maintains a transmitter on Rattlesnake Mountain (Connecticut), Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut, Farmington. History The WHCT call signs in North America, call letters, which were once used on channel 18 (now Univision network affiliate, affiliate WUVN), were adopted by the station in August 2001. Ten years after the station signed on, from 1991 to 2001, its call letters were W69CL, with a brief change to W32BV during a failed attempt to move it to channel 32 from 1997 to 1998. In December 2019, Weigel Broadcasting agreed to purchase WHCT-LD from Venture Technologies Group for $1.5 million. The sale was completed on September 30, 2020, and Weigel placed five of their networks o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weigel Broadcasting
Weigel Broadcasting Co. is an American television broadcasting company based in Chicago, Illinois, alongside its flagship station WCIU-TV (Channel 26), at 26 North Halsted Street in the Greektown neighborhood. It currently owns 25 television stations, seven digital over-the-air television networks (most notably MeTV), and one radio station. History The company was founded by Chicago broadcasting veteran John Weigel, whose career dated back to the 1930s. With $1,000 of his own money and another $1,000 from his attorney, Daniel J. McCarthy, Weigel bought the broadcasting license for what became the first UHF television station in the Chicago area. WCIU signed on the air on February 6, 1964. One year later, in 1965, the company was the subject of a successful hostile takeover at the hands of the Shapiro family. Over the years, the company began to acquire and also launch new stations in the adjacent markets of Milwaukee and South Bend, at first by placing WCIU translators in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |