WBTS-CD

NBC10 Boston (WBTS-CD)

Nashua, New Hampshire Boston, Massachusetts United States
City	Nashua, New Hampshire
Channels	Digital: 32 (UHF), shared with WGBX-TV Virtual: 15
Branding	NBC10 Boston
Programming
Affiliations	15.1: NBC 15.2: Cozi TV
Ownership
Owner	NBC Owned Television Stations (NBC Telemundo License LLC)
Sister stations	WNEU NECN NBC Sports Boston
History
Founded	January 1, 2017[a]
First air date	January 29, 1988 (36 years ago) (1988-01-29)
Former call signs	W13BG (1985–1996) WYCN-LP (1996–2014) WYCN-CD (2014–2019)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 13 (VHF, 1988–2014) Digital: 36 (UHF, 2014–2018), 43 (UHF, 2018–2019) Virtual: 13 (2014–2018), 8 (2017–2018)
Former affiliations	Community programming (1988–2018) FamilyNet (c. 2000–2012) The Family Channel (2012–2014) TouchVision (2014–March 2015) TheCoolTV (March–December 9, 2015) Queue Network (December 9–12, 2015) Heroes & Icons (December 12, 2015–2018)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	9766
Class	CD
ERP	922 kW
HAAT	388.3 m (1,274 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	42°18′37″N 71°14′12″W / 42.31028°N 71.23667°W / 42.31028; -71.23667 (WBTS-CD)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.nbcboston.com

WBTS-CD (channel 15), known as NBC10 Boston, 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. WBTS-CD is broadcast by full-power WGBX-TV (channel 44) from its transmitter site on Cedar Street, also in Needham, giving it full coverage of the Boston television market. It is branded as channel 10 owing to its primary cable channel position.^[2][3]

The license started in Nashua on January 29, 1988, as W13BG "TV13 Nashua", a low-power community television station which later changed its call sign to WYCN-LP in 1996. Its programming consisted of local-service programming for the Nashua area and content already aired by local cable systems as well as, later on, FamilyNet. WYCN-LP and associated translators were sold to New Hampshire 1 Network, a company controlled by William H. Binnie, in 2010. Three years later, Binnie sold WYCN-LP to OTA Broadcasting, which removed remaining local content and converted the station to digital broadcasting.

OTA Broadcasting sold the spectrum underlying WYCN-CD in the FCC's 2017 incentive auction. Without a transmitter, the station arranged to share the transmitter of WGBX-TV, giving it full-power coverage in the Boston market. OTA Broadcasting then sold WYCN-CD to NBC, whose NBC Boston service had launched at the start of 2017 on several transmitters but lacked a single primary signal. The station changed call signs to WBTS-CD in 2019 in anticipation of the relocation of the former WBTS-LD license, now WYCN-LD, to serve the Providence, Rhode Island, area.

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