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1988 establishments in New HampshireCompanies based in Norfolk County, MassachusettsCozi TV affiliatesLow-power television stations in New HampshireNBC Owned Television Stations
NBC network affiliatesNashua, New HampshireTelevision channels and stations established in 1988Television stations in Boston
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WBTS-CD (channel 15) is a Class A television station licensed to Nashua, New Hampshire, United States, serving as the NBC outlet for the Boston area. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Merrimack, New Hampshire–licensed Telemundo station WNEU (channel 60); it is also sister to regional cable news channel New England Cable News (NECN) and regional sports network NBC Sports Boston. The four outlets share studios at the NBCU Boston Media Center on B Street in Needham, Massachusetts. Under a channel sharing arrangement, WBTS-CD shares transmitter facilities with Boston-licensed PBS member station WGBX-TV (channel 44) on Cedar Street, also in Needham, on a tower also used by several other TV and radio stations. Despite WBTS-CD legally holding a low-power Class A license, it transmits using WGBX-TV's full-power spectrum. This ensures complete reception across the Boston television market. WBTS-CD is carried on channel 10 by most local cable television providers; hence the station's on-air branding (since 2018) as NBC 10 Boston.

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WGBX-TV
WGBX-TV

WGBX-TV (channel 44), branded on-air as GBH 44, is the secondary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation, alongside WGBH-TV (channel 2), WFXZ-CD (channel 24), and multiple public radio stations in Boston and on Cape Cod. WGBX-TV, WGBH-TV and the WGBH and WCRB radio stations share studios on Guest Street in northwest Boston's Brighton neighborhood; WGBX-TV's transmitter is located on Cedar Street (southwest of I-95/MA 128) in Needham, Massachusetts. WGBX-TV began broadcasting in September 1967 as a source of experimental, alternative, and additional educational programming, in addition to repeats of shows aired by WGBH-TV. It also provided an outlet for specialty telecourses and instructional material. In the 1960s and 1970s, such programs as The Most Dangerous Game, Catch 44, and Club 44 attracted national attention or moved to the parent station. WGBX-TV provided the first gavel-to-gavel telecast of an American state legislature in 1984 when the Massachusetts House of Representatives agreed to have their sessions televised in full, and it was a test bed for experimentation with new digital audio standards in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, WGBX-TV programming was revamped to feature themed nights and increase awareness of its identity. WGBX-TV itself broadcasts standard-definition versions of WGBX and WGBH (both in high definition from the WGBH-TV multiplex) and several multicast services. WBTS-CD, NBC Boston, shares the channel, allowing the station to broadcast at high power to the Boston area.

NBC10 Boston
NBC10 Boston

NBC10 Boston (call sign WBTS-CD, channel 15 and cable channel 10) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, owned and operated by the NBC television network. It broadcasts from studios in Needham—shared with NBC Sports Boston, New England Cable News, and Telemundo station WNEU—and the transmitter of WGBX-TV in the same city. Beginning in 2015, speculation emerged that corporate parent NBCUniversal was interested in taking the affiliation in Boston from its affiliate of 20 years, WHDH (channel 7), after it expired at the end of 2016. NBCUniversal already owned New England Cable News and WNEU, whose transmitter was in southern New Hampshire. This was confirmed in January 2016, when the network announced it would start a new station, to be known as NBC Boston, at the start of 2017. WHDH's owner, Sunbeam Television, unsuccessfully sued NBC in an attempt to prevent the network from moving its affiliation. To serve as the broadcast outlet for NBC Boston, NBC acquired WTMU-LP, a low-power station which rebroadcast WNEU, and gave it the new call sign WBTS-LD. NBC Boston began broadcasting on January 1, 2017, on WTMU-LP and subchannels of WNEU and WMFP to provide full regional coverage. It became known as NBC10 Boston, reflecting its cable channel, after its first year on air. After the 2017 broadcast incentive auction, NBC acquired an additional low-power TV license in the Boston area, the former WYCN-CD in Nashua, New Hampshire. This license had sold its spectrum and agreed to share a channel with WGBX-TV, a full-power TV station in Boston, giving it a full-market signal; the original WBTS-LD then became WYCN-LD and was moved to Providence, Rhode Island, as a Telemundo station. NBC10 Boston debuted local newscasts from its first day on air, utilizing the resources of the existing NECN–WNEU operation; NBC hired longtime Boston TV meteorologist Pete Bouchard concurrent with the station's launch. It has generally struggled in local news ratings since its debut.