WMFP
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| WMFP | |
|---|---|
| Lawrence-Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Channels | |
| Subchannels | 62.1 RTN |
| Affiliations | Retro Television Network |
| Owner | Multicultural Television Broadcasting, LLC (MTB Boston Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | October 16, 1987 |
| Call letters’ meaning | We're Media For The People |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 62 (1987-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1987-1995) Shop at Home (1995-2007) Jewelry Television (secondary, 2006-2007) Gems TV (2007-2008) Infomercials (2007-2009) |
| Transmitter Power | 1 megawatt |
| Height | 289.2 m |
| Facility ID | 41436 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 42°18′27″N 71°13′27″W / 42.3075°N 71.22417°W |
WMFP is a television station in the Boston market. The station is licensed to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and is owned by Multicultural Television. The station's programming primarily consists of programming from the Retro Television Network.
WMFP signed on for the first time on October 16, 1987. Initially, the station broadcast approximately 8 hours per day, using a transmitter located on a hill behind the Baldpate Hospital in Georgetown, Massachusetts. In September 1992, a new broadcast antenna was mounted via a Sikorsky sky-crane helicopter on top of One Beacon Street in Boston. WMFP installed a new transmitter on an upper floor of the building, and started broadcasting from Boston in November 1992. The station's president at that time was Boston-area political commentator Avi Nelson. Bill Mockbee, well-known in radio and TV broadcasting in Boston, was the General Manager, and composer/conductor/actor David Morrow was the Operations Manager. WMFP began to carry several NBC programs in early 1993, including the soap opera Another World. Avi Nelson sold channel 62 to the Shop at Home Network in 1995[1][2], who began airing the network's home shopping programming soon thereafter.
On May 16, 2006, Shop at Home parent company E.W. Scripps announced that the network would be suspending operations, effective June 22, 2006. [3] However, Shop at Home temporarily ceased operations on June 21, and WMFP switched to Jewelry Television (and, on June 23, a mixture of both networks).
On September 26, 2006, Scripps announced that it was selling its Shop at Home stations, including WMFP, to Multicultural Television of New York City for $170 million. [1] The sale of WMFP closed on April 24, 2007. Before the sale announcement, an affiliation with MyNetworkTV was discussed as a possible future course for the station.[4] Eventually, MyTV chose to affiliate with WZMY.
In May 2007, Multicultural took over WMFP, and switched the station to a mix of infomercials and Gems TV; the Gems TV affiliation was dropped a year later.
On February 17, 2009, WMFP discontinued broadcasting in analog on channel 62. They are now broadcasting solely on digital UHF channel 18 (virtual channel 62.1) from a facility on the "FM-128" tower in Needham, Massachusetts.
It was announced on May 12, 2009 that WMFP would begin to offer Retro Television Network (RTN) within the following two weeks.[5] RTN programming was added to the station's second digital subchannel on May 20, though with its station identification showing the channel as 18.1. The next day, WMFP began showing RTN content on the main channel as well. The station is carried on Comcast channel 20, RCN Cable channel 21, and Verizon FiOS channel 23.
[edit] References
- ^ "Application Search Details". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=199814. Retrieved on May 25, 2009.
- ^ "Public Notice Comment". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/comment.pl?Application_id=199814&File_number=BTCCT-19940602KE. Retrieved on May 25, 2009.
- ^ http://pressreleases.scripps.com/release/854
- ^ http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=140847
- ^ http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/05/12/daily.10/
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