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| City | Springfield, Massachusetts |
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First air date | March 17, 1953 |
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Call sign meaning | William L. Putnam (the station's founder and longtime owner) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 6868 |
| ERP | 15.8 kW |
| HAAT | 247 m (810 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°5′5″N 72°42′12″W / 42.08472°N 72.70333°W |
| Translator(s) | 28 WFXQ-CD (UHF) |
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| Website | www |
WWLP (channel 22) is a television station in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, affiliated with NBC. Its second digital subchannel serves as an owned-and-operated station of The CW (via The CW Plus). Owned by Nexstar Media Group (majority owner of The CW), the station has studios at Broadcast Center in the Sandy Hill section of Chicopee at the northwest corner of the I-391/MA 116/Chicopee Street interchange, and its transmitter is located on Provin Mountain in the Feeding Hills section of Agawam.
WWLP operates a full-time low-power digital repeater, WFXQ-CD (channel 28), whose transmitter is located at the top of the old Mount Tom Ski Area in Holyoke. WFXQ-CD primarily serves as a way for the few viewers in the core of the Springfield market without cable or satellite to have UHF access to WWLP's signal, as VHF antennas have some issues with reception in the digital age. As with all other Springfield stations carried on UHF channels, it allows those viewers to use one type of antenna rather than two.
Due to the close proximity of the Springfield–Holyoke and Hartford–New Haven, Connecticut markets, many stations in Connecticut can be viewed in the Southern Pioneer Valley. Since WWLP's transmitter on Provin Mountain is not far from the state line, its signal can be picked up in northern areas of the state. WVIT (channel 30), which serves as the NBC station for all of Connecticut except Fairfield County (which is served by network flagship WNBC in New York City), is currently the only Hartford–New Haven big three station offered on Comcast Xfinity's basic tier. Charter Spectrum customers in the Pioneer Valley have access to WVIT, but only with a digital set top box.
WWLP's facility additionally serves as Nexstar's Northeast master control hub.[2]
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WWLP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ https://buffalonews.com/2019/01/22/buffalo-is-top-rated-nfl-market-outside-of-cities-with-teams-trying-to-make-super-bowl/ "Dominic Mancuso, the Channel 4 general manager, explained the provider of the fiber for the master control hub in Springfield, Mass., is trying to fix the problem."