WRDM-CD

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WRDM-CD (channel 19) is a Class A television station licensed to Hartford, Connecticut, United States, serving as the Hartford–New Haven market's outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC outlet WVIT (channel 30).[1] The two stations share studios on New Britain Avenue in West Hartford and transmitter facilities on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut. Despite WRDM-CD legally holding a low-power Class A license, it transmits using WVIT's full-power spectrum. This ensures complete reception across the Hartford–New Haven market.

WDMR-LD (channel 14) in Springfield, Massachusetts, operates as a translator of WRDM, serving the Pioneer Valley. This station's transmitter is located on Provin Mountain in the Feeding Hills section of Agawam, Massachusetts.

History

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WRDM logo when the station broadcast on channel 13
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Previous logo; used until nationwide Telemundo rebrand on December 8, 2012.

WRDM-CD signed on June 14, 1986; it claims to be the first Spanish-language television station in New England.[2] The station initially operated on channel 13 under the call letters W13BF.[3] On June 13, 1991,[4] the station added a simulcast in Springfield, W65BX (channel 65).[3] Initially, in addition to Telemundo programming, W13BF and W65BX aired programming in Italian from public broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI)'s international service,[3] with additional programming in Greek and Polish.[5] The television stations were joined by radio station WRDM (1550 AM, now WSDK) in 1993;[3] on September 1, 1995, W13BF changed its call letters to WRDM-LP,[6] and W65BX became WDMR-LP.[7] WRDM radio was sold off in 1998.[8] During the late 1990s, WDMR-LP's schedule also included English-language Boston Red Sox telecasts produced by Boston's WABU (now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WBPX-TV).[9] By 1997, WRDM-LP's programming was simulcast in New Haven on W10BQ (channel 10, now defunct) and in Hartford on W11BJ (channel 11, now WFXQ-CD channel 28 in Springfield).[10]

Original owner Channel 13 Television sold WRDM-LP and WDMR-LP to ZGS Communications on March 27, 2001.[11][12] In January 2006, WRDM-LP moved to channel 50;[13] WDMR-LP moved to channel 51 that November.[14] WRDM became a class A station as WRDM-CA on May 7, 2008.[6] On November 15, 2012, WDMR flash cut from analog to digital as WDMR-LD;[7] on January 7, 2013, WRDM followed suit and became WRDM-CD.[6] WDMR-LD now serves as a complete simulcast of WRDM-CD.[15]

On December 4, 2017, NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group announced its purchase of ZGS' 13 television stations, including WRDM-CD and WDMR-LD. The sale was completed on February 1, 2018.[1] The deal made WRDM a sister station to NBC owned-and-operated station WVIT (channel 30), along with WNBC (channel 4) and WNJU (channel 47) to the southwest in New York City, and WBTS-LD (channel 8), WYCN-CD (channel 15) and WNEU (channel 60) to the northeast in Boston. WVIT began operating WRDM under a local marketing agreement on January 1, 2018 from WVIT's studios in West Hartford; WRDM later entered into a channel sharing agreement with WVIT.[16] ZGS had sold WRDM's spectrum in the FCC's incentive auction for $10,574,516 and indicated that the station would enter into a post-auction channel sharing agreement.[17] One immediate effect of the sale was the end of a brokered programming arrangement to carry English language Jewelry TV programming in overnights for Telemundo's regular overnight schedule, along with the addition of a Connecticut-specific part of the website for WNEU in place of the former WRDM website.

Newscasts

WRDM-LP began producing a newscast in April 1998; at the outset, Script error: No such module "Lang". primarily featured reports from Puerto Rico and Latin America, with local news coverage being added in June 1999.[18] The station's news operation was discontinued in the early 2000s; WRDM then began carrying Script error: No such module "Lang". from WKAQ-TV in San Juan.

On December 15, 2017, NBCUniversal announced that, following its acquisition of WRDM-CD, the station (along with WDMR-LD) would begin simulcasting the newscasts of Boston sister station WNEU; the newscasts will include news from Connecticut and western Massachusetts from a reporter based at WRDM's facilities at the WVIT studios in West Hartford.[16]

Technical information

The stations' signals are multiplexed:

WRDM-CD subchannels

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WDMR-LD subchannels

Subchannels of WDMR-LD[19]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
14.1 1080i 16:9 WDMR-LD Telemundo
14.2 480i XITOS S TeleXitos
14.3 LocalX NBC LX Home
14.4 Oxygen Oxygen

WDMR-LD also broadcasts the national services NBC LX Home and Oxygen, which are carried by WVIT as subchannels 30.3 and 30.4.

Spectrum auction repack

On August 2, 2019, WVIT and WRDM-CD were switched from RF 35 to RF 31.

References

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External links

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