WRDM-CD

WRDM-CD
Hartford–New Haven, Connecticut; United States;
City	Hartford, Connecticut
Channels	Digital: 31 (UHF), shared with WVIT; Virtual: 19;
Branding	Telemundo Connecticut; Noticiero Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra (newscasts);
Programming
Affiliations	19.1: Telemundo; 19.2: TeleXitos;
Ownership
Owner	Telemundo Station Group; (NBC Telemundo License LLC);
Sister stations	WVIT
History
Founded	1985
First air date	June 14, 1986 (38 years ago)
Former call signs	W13BF (1985–1995); WRDM-LP (1995–2008); WRDM-CA (2008–2013);
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 13 (VHF, 1986–2006), 50 (UHF, 2006–2013); Digital: 19 (UHF, 2013–2018), 35 (UHF, 2018–2019); Virtual: 50 (2013–2018);
Former affiliations	All secondary:; Rai Internazionale Americas (1986–2001); TVP Polonia (per program, 1993–2001); Jewelry Television (overnights, c. 2001–2018);
Call sign meaning	Ruzzier, D'Agostino, Minniti (former owners)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	10153
ERP	374 kW
HAAT	450 m (1,476 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	41°42′2″N 72°49′55″W / 41.70056°N 72.83194°W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	Connecticut section on WNEU's website
Translator
	WDMR-LD
Springfield, Massachusetts; United States;
Channels	Digital: 23 (UHF); Virtual: 14;
Programming
Affiliations	14.1: Telemundo; for others, see § WDMR-LD subchannels;
History
Founded	1988
First air date	June 13, 1991 (33 years ago)
Former call signs	W65BX (1988–1995); WDMR-LP (1995–2012);
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 65 (UHF, 1991–2006), 51 (UHF, 2006–2012); Digital: 51 (UHF, 2012–2019);
Former affiliations	All secondary:; Rai Internazionale Americas (1991–2001); TVP Polonia (per program, 1993–2001); Jewelry Television (overnights, c. 2001–2018);
Call sign meaning	anagram of WRDM-CD
Technical information
Facility ID	10154
Class	LD
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	146 m (479 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	42°5′7.3″N 72°42′10.3″W / 42.085361°N 72.702861°W
Links
Public license information	LMS

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).^[4] 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

WRDM logo when the station broadcast on channel 13

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.^[5] The station initially operated on channel 13 under the call letters W13BF.^[1] On June 13, 1991,^[6] the station added a simulcast in Springfield, W65BX (channel 65).^[1] Initially, in addition to Telemundo programming, W13BF and W65BX aired programming in Italian from public broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI)'s international service,^[1] with additional programming in Greek and Polish.^[7] The television stations were joined by radio station WRDM (1550 AM, now WSDK) in 1993;^[1] on September 1, 1995, W13BF changed its call letters to WRDM-LP,^[8] and W65BX became WDMR-LP.^[9] WRDM radio was sold off in 1998.^[10] 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).^[11] 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).^[12]

Original owner Channel 13 Television sold WRDM-LP and WDMR-LP to ZGS Communications on March 27, 2001.^[13]^[14] In January 2006, WRDM-LP moved to channel 50;^[15] WDMR-LP moved to channel 51 that November.^[16] WRDM became a class A station as WRDM-CA on May 7, 2008.^[8] On November 15, 2012, WDMR flash cut from analog to digital as WDMR-LD;^[9] on January 7, 2013, WRDM followed suit and became WRDM-CD.^[8] WDMR-LD now serves as a complete simulcast of WRDM-CD.^[17]

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.^[4] 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.^[18] 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.^[19] 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, Noticiero 13 primarily featured reports from Puerto Rico and Latin America, with local news coverage being added in June 1999.^[20] The station's news operation was discontinued in the early 2000s; WRDM then began carrying Telenoticias Puerto Rico 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.^[18]

Technical information

The stations' signals are multiplexed:

WRDM-CD subchannels

Subchannels of WVIT and WRDM-CD^[21]
License	Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
WVIT	30.1	1080i	16:9	WVIT-HD	NBC
	30.2	480i		COZI-TV	Cozi TV
	30.3			NBCLX	NBC LX Home
	30.4			OXYGEN	Oxygen
WRDM-CD	19.1	1080i		TLMD	Telemundo
WRDM-CD	19.2	480i		EXITOS	TeleXitos

WDMR-LD subchannels

Subchannels of WDMR-LD^[22]
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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Lender, Jon (August 13, 1993). "Radio Station Targets Hispanic, Italian, Other Ethnic Markets". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ "Facility Technical Data for WRDM-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ "Facility Technical Data for WDMR-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ ^a ^b Miller, Mark K. (December 4, 2017). "NBCU Adding ZGS Stations To Telemundo". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
^ "Telemundo Hartford/Springfield Celebrates its 25th Anniversary". Telemundo Hartford/Springfield Station Spotlight. May 23, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ Television & Cable Factbook 2006 Edition (PDF). 2006. p. B-78. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
^ Trecker, Jerry (October 13, 1993). "Getting With The Program". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Call Sign History (WRDM-CD)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Call Sign History (WDMR-LD)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ Fybush, Scott (February 12, 1998). "The Mouse that Ate Hartford". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ Fybush, Scott (April 3, 1996). "New England RadioWatch". Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ Fybush, Scott (June 26, 1997). "The Reaction to Dodge". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ "Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low Power Television Station". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. June 22, 2000. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ "Application Search Details (WDMR-LD, 1)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ Fybush, Scott (January 30, 2006). "And now...The CW?". NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ "Application Search Details (WDMR-LD, 2)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ RabbitEars TV Query for WDMR-LD
^ ^a ^b Miller, Mark K. (December 15, 2017). "WNEU Boston Rebrands, Adds 2 Newscasts". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
^ "FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Auction 1001 Winning Bids" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. April 4, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
^ Weiss, Tara (August 16, 1999). "Accent On News". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
^ "RabbitEars TV Query for WVIT". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
^ "Digital TV Market Listing for WDMR-LD". RabbitEars. Retrieved September 20, 2022.

External links

Hartford/Springfield section on WNEU's website

[hc-earlyyearsandmeaning-1] Lender, Jon (August 13, 1993). "Radio Station Targets Hispanic, Italian, Other Ethnic Markets". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[2] "Facility Technical Data for WRDM-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[3] "Facility Technical Data for WDMR-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[tvnc-saletotelemundo-4] Miller, Mark K. (December 4, 2017). "NBCU Adding ZGS Stations To Telemundo". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved December 4, 2017.

[wrdm-start-5] "Telemundo Hartford/Springfield Celebrates its 25th Anniversary". Telemundo Hartford/Springfield Station Spotlight. May 23, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[tf2006-6] Television & Cable Factbook 2006 Edition (PDF). 2006. p. B-78. Retrieved October 5, 2018.

[hc-w13bfgreekpolish-7] Trecker, Jerry (October 13, 1993). "Getting With The Program". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[fcc-wrdmcallsigns-8] "Call Sign History (WRDM-CD)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[fcc-wdmrcallsigns-9] "Call Sign History (WDMR-LD)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[nerw-wrdmradiosale-10] Fybush, Scott (February 12, 1998). "The Mouse that Ate Hartford". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[nerw-wdmrredsox-11] Fybush, Scott (April 3, 1996). "New England RadioWatch". Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[nerw-wrdmonw10bqw11bj-12] Fybush, Scott (June 26, 1997). "The Reaction to Dodge". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[fcc-saletozgs1-13] "Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low Power Television Station". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. June 22, 2000. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[fcc-saletozgs2-14] "Application Search Details (WDMR-LD, 1)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[nerw-wrdm50-15] Fybush, Scott (January 30, 2006). "And now...The CW?". NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[fcc-wdmr51-16] "Application Search Details (WDMR-LD, 2)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2017.

[17] RabbitEars TV Query for WDMR-LD

[tvnc-wneuwrdmnewscast-18] Miller, Mark K. (December 15, 2017). "WNEU Boston Rebrands, Adds 2 Newscasts". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved December 15, 2017.

[fcc-wrdmsale-19] "FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Auction 1001 Winning Bids" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. April 4, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017.

[hc-wrdmnewscast-20] Weiss, Tara (August 16, 1999). "Accent On News". Hartford Courant. Retrieved December 15, 2017.

[21] "RabbitEars TV Query for WVIT". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved July 10, 2024.

[22] "Digital TV Market Listing for WDMR-LD". RabbitEars. Retrieved September 20, 2022.

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WRDM-CD

History

Newscasts

Technical information

WRDM-CD subchannels

WDMR-LD subchannels

Spectrum auction repack

References

External links

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