WHCT-LD (channel 35) is a low-power television station licensed to both

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and

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, United States, affiliated with

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. The station is

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, and maintains a transmitter on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington.

History

The WHCT

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, which were once used on channel 18 (now

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affiliate

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), 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

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for $1.5 million. The sale was completed on September 30, 2020, and Weigel placed five of their networks on WHCT-LD immediately, replacing the Jewelry Television affiliation."Consummation Notice"
''CDBS Public Access'',

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, 1 October 2020, Retrieved 1 October 2020. Weigel had not had an affiliate in the area for any of their networks since

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(channel 43, mainly serving the New York market from

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) ended their affiliation with MeTV in 2015. WZME would eventually be affiliated with

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on September 27, 2021, and

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upon its launch on March 28, 2022.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

* HCT-LD MeTV affiliates Heroes & Icons affiliates Start TV affiliates Movies! affiliates Catchy Comedy affiliates OnTV4U affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1991 1991 establishments in Connecticut Weigel Broadcasting {{Connecticut-tv-station-stub