IIRC back from the 1990s to the 2010s station WBTS (over-the-air channel 7) owned the NBC contract. Comcast swept in during the era of mergers and airwave actions took over a big chunk of operations in the region, and bought out the NBC contract from under WBTS. Lawsuits ensued, a judge ruled that NBC didn't have an obligation to stay with channel 7, leaving that channel without a network affiliation, but with a chunk of the spectrum and a broadcasting license to fill. Hence their weird brandless news.
Somehow, NBC tried to move to the local 'channel 10' but that couldn't happen because the broadcasting area overlapped too significantly with Rhode Island's crappy channel 10. So NBC's Boston ops moved to Nashua, New Hampshire and broadcast with a powerful-enough signal to cover about half of the former area. Half of Boston doesn't have an NBC signal, and the other half gets one transmitted across state lines. Channel 7 news broadcasts, but without the NBC content.
Note: I might be 100 percent wrong about all of this.
― remy bean, Friday, 19 June 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
iirc nbc tried to buy whdh (ch. 7) but the owner hated nbc and wouldn't sell so nbc just didn't renew the affiliation. there was a bunch of legal shit threatened but yeah ch. 7 basically bailed and doubled down on their strong local news brand.
btw i literally don't remember the last time i watched local news.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 June 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
i wasn't aware of any of this! but yeah i haven't watched network television in probably 5-10 years
― ciderpress, Friday, 19 June 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
I am so glad that the prelimary mayoral election is over and that the horrifying Trumpy candidates in Somerville and Medford were resoundingly bounced
― a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
Somerville had a great night!
Update: The two DSA city council candidates who had primaries today (@ElectTessa @BeccaForWard7) easily made it to the general election, and the progressive mayoral candidate leads the field going into the general. A great night for the Somerville left. https://t.co/OI33i1Xoiv— dork (@arachno_commie) September 15, 2021
― OneSecondBefore, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
I was worried about the demographic that would turn out given that it seems every square inch of Somerville is plastered with Tauro signs
― a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
Homeowners are always overrepresented in the yard sign primary.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 16 September 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
It was almost all slumlords; there was direct correlation between the level of abject disrepair and the number of Tauro signs slapped on that shit
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Thursday, 16 September 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
The guy on Medford Ave. with the Trump signs plastered all over his house seems to keep it in relatively good condition. Guess he's aware of how much of a gawker hotspot his place is.
― henry s, Thursday, 16 September 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
I thought he was becoming self-aware at one point, one of the signs said something about Trump being a liar for a hot minute but the rest of it was still a trainwreck
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Thursday, 16 September 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
Love the city for the marathon. Great vibes.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
it is the best
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 April 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
Dance party outside Boston city hall right now. The DJ is blasting “Erotic City” by Prince and everyone is grooving.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 9 September 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
Full-on "we could fuck until the dawn" version?
― henry s, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
mayor michelle wu presents house music dance party lolsomehow don’t think marty walsh would’ve hosted this.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
lmao no he wouldn’t have
― castanuts (DJP), Saturday, 10 September 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
recently saw someone claim that he once 'drove out to boston'
i am not from new england but i can see 'in', 'up', 'down', possibly even 'over'. but how does one drive 'out' to a hub, unless one is parked on the floor of boston harbor?
(the writer is based in new york, so i guess this could just be a bit of bizarre nyc chauvinism)
― mookieproof, Monday, 2 January 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
Never heard that before.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
But yeah, sounds like someone in California driving out to the desert or something.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
if you see nyc as the center of the world then everywhere else including boston is outward, makes sense from that angle
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 January 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
A NYer who summered in the Berkshires and once drove the Mass Pike.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Monday, 2 January 2023 22:55 (one year ago) link
FAP anyone?
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:55 (nine months ago) link
House / Disco dance party happening outside Boston city hall again right now 🪩
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:18 (seven months ago) link