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WZMY-TV
Derry, New Hampshire / Boston, Massachusetts
Branding	My TV
Slogan	My TV is Your TV
Channels	Analog: 50 (UHF) Digital: 35 (UHF)
Affiliations	MyNetworkTV
Owner	Shooting Star Broadcasting of New England, LLC
Founded	January 22, 1983
Call letters meaning	MY TV or MYNetworkTV
Former callsigns	WNDS-TV (1983-2005)
Former affiliations	Independent (1983-2006) Global Shopping Network (1997)
Transmitter Power	4,790 kW (analog) 7.3 kW (digital)
Height	213 m (analog) 204.8 m (digital)
Facility ID	14682
Transmitter Coordinates	42°44′7″N, 71°23′36″W
Website	mytvstation.tv

WZMY-TV is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Southern New Hampshire and Greater Boston. Licensed to Derry (NH), the station broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 50 and a digital signal on UHF channel 35. WZMY's transmitter is located on Merrill Hill in Hudson (NH). Owned by Shooting Star Broadcasting of New England, LLC, the station has studios that are located on A Street in Derry. Additional offices are located on the 51st floor of the John Hancock Building on Clarendon Street in Downtown Boston. WZMY is known on-air as "My TV".

WZMY's over-the-air analog signal, which still transmits in mono, covers most of Greater Boston. However, its digital signal is much weaker and transmits in 480i.

The station is also offered on cable. On Comcast systems, outside of Downtown Boston, WZMY is generally found on channel 18. It is offered on cable systems throughout New Hampshire, Southern Vermont and Southern Maine as well.

The station bases portions of its schedule on viewer suggestions.

WZMY is well known in New England for legendary meteorologist Al Kaprielian. As a result of his popularity, he was a "Guest Meteorologist" on The Weather Channel's Abrams & Bettes: Beyond The Forecast on November 10, 2006.

In addition to MyNetworkTV primetime and overnight paid programming, WZMY's syndicated lineup includes: Still Standing, Frasier, Family Feud, Becker and many other popular shows.

The station began broadcasting on January 22, 1983 and was known on-air as "The Winds of New England". The station had the call letters WNDS and aired an independent format that was a constant for most of its years of operation. In April of 1988, the station applied for the WQNH call letters but they were never used. In 1997, CTV of Derry, who owned WNDS, attempted to sell the station to the Global Shopping Network. That network operated channel 50 from April to June with a home shopping format. ^[1] However, GSN failed to make payments for WNDS (as well as their other stations) effectively returning control of the station to CTV. ^{[2] [3]}

As such, CTV sold channel 50 again, this time to its present owner Shooting Star Broadcasting.

In the Summer of 2005, Shooting Star Broadcasting announced that WNDS would change its call letters to WZMY-TV and its branding to "MyTV". [1] That coincided with a major overhaul of the station's programming lineup, including the discontinuation of the 10 p.m. news, the relocation of the 7 p.m. news to 7:30, new local programs, and other changes [2] based on viewer responses on the old WNDS website. The changes were implemented on-air on September 26, 2005. In July, 2007 MyTV launched a revamped website, similar to the MyNetworkTV website.

On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN networks announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge. The new network would be called The CW with the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. Boston's WB affiliate WLVI-TV, which also served Southern New Hampshire, was announced as becoming an affiliate with the new network. That left the area's UPN affiliate WSBK-TV becoming an independent. The CW began broadcasting on September 18, 2006.

On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced that they would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. The new service would be a sister network to News Corporation's other network FOX. MyNetworkTV would be operated by FOX Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. The newtork was created to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also to compete against The CW.

WZMY, having already copyrighted and established itself as "My TV", reached an agreement with News Corporation to become the Greater Boston and Southern New Hampshire affiliate.

On July 21, 2006, members of the "My TV Club" (who get special "My TV"-related announcements through their email) received an announcement declaring that WZMY would be affiliating with MyNetworkTV. Details became available on July 24 to the media and on WZMY's website. Full notification to the general public occurred on July 26. ^[4] Until the announcements were made, Boston and Southern New Hampshire had been the largest market without a stand-alone MyNetworkTV affiliate. Speculation abounded that Boston's FOX O&O, WFXT, would add the new network either as a secondary affiliation or on a new second digital subchannel.

MyNetworkTV is the first television network that WNDS and WZMY have ever affiliated with in its history. With network affiliation beginning with the network's launch (which happened on September 5, 2006), the station continued to use their "My TV" branding. WZMY redesigned its website to reflect its new network affiliation and a new logo was unveiled.

Manchester is about 45 miles north from Boston, while Concord is about 60 miles. Boston's VHF stations have Grade A signals in Manchester and Grade B signals in Concord. The UHF stations have Grade B signals in Manchester but spotty signals in Concord. It was thought that the Southern New Hampshire sub-market could break away from the Boston market and become separate. If it were to break away, the market would rank in the top 100 of all U.S. television markets.

At the start of 1988, the sub-market had ABC affiliate WMUR and PBS affiliate WENH. On February 1, 1988, an independent station based in Concord, WNHT, became Southern New Hampshire's first CBS affiliate. WNHT lost the affiliation and stopped broadcasting on March 31, 1989 as a result of low viewership and ratings. There has not been a CBS affiliate based in the state since then. In the early- 1990s, Boston's CBS affiliate WBZ-TV operated a news bureau in Manchester until it closed. However, another one was established on Elm Street in November of 2006. When WNHT signed off, WMUR and WENH remained the only network affiliated stations in the state of New Hampshire again until the creation of MyNetworkTV. WZMYis the third network affiliated station in the state of New Hampshire.

There has never been an NBC affiliate based in the state although WNNE has, since 1978, broadcasted NBC programming into the Connecticut River Valley from across the state line in White River Junction (VT). While The WB and UPN were broadcasting, there were no affiliates either. With the CW network, that did not change.

In September of 1998, WNDS began the News Now local newscasts weeknights at 7 and 10 p.m. as well as a short-lived Saturday afternoon one. By 2003, the 11:57 a.m. weekday news update was expanded into a full half-hour newscast at Noon. However, the station began to struggle by the 2004–2005 season. As a result, the Noon broadcast was discontinued and the 10 p.m. edition was cut down to 10 minutes in favor of syndicated programming like That '70s Show.

As WNDS, the station called its newscasts News Now, which debuted in September 1998. The station produced two nightly newscasts weeknights at 7 and 10 p.m. Both newscasts were originally a half-hour long, but the 10 p.m. edition was later shortened to a 10-minute broadcast. At various points, WNDS also had weekend afternoon and weekday Noon newscasts, but those were eventually dropped.

In addition, some news / weather updates as well as stand-alone weather updates from Chief Meteorologist Al Kaprielian were provided throughout the day. When "MyTV" launched, the 10 p.m. news was dropped. The news team remained the same throughout the transition.

When the station was relaunched as WZMY, it had only one news program on the schedule, MyTV Now, which aired weeknights from 7:30 to 8 p.m. An additional 60-minute news and commentary program, MyTV Prime, aired from 9 to 10 p.m. On March 10, 2006, however, the two programs were consolidated into a new, 90-minute version of MyTV Prime that aired from 8 to 9:30 p.m. News was no longer provided outside of that program. By July 2006, channel 50 had discontinued MyTV Prime in favor of sitcom reruns. Weather updates from Chief Meteorologist Al Kaprielian are still provided each hour from Noon to Midnight but these (as of August 2006) are now accompanied by news updates that use the MyTV Now title. It is unknown if WZMY will begin producing newscasts again with MyNetworkTV affiliation.

For most of WNDS's existence, the station ran a candlepin bowling show each weekend at Noon called Candlepin Stars and Strikes, which was dropped from the schedule in August 2005. In addition, during the early 2000s, channel 50 ran a public affairs program titled Capitol Ideas. The station currently airs MyVoice, Sunday nights at 11 p.m. which focuses on issues important to New Englanders.

Prior to the switch to Global Shopping Network in April 1997, WNDS also ran three additional shows: High School Sports Review (which looked at high school sports news in the station's broadcast region), Sports Wrap (a Sports Talk show discussing Boston sports), and WNDS News Up Front (a local newsmagazine). When regular programming was restored in June, these three shows were not resurrected.

Friday Night Chaos, a 30-minute weekly show from independent wrestling promotion Chaotic Wrestling, aired on WNDS from 2001-2002. The station also aired a locally-produced talk show hosted by singer-comedian Bucky Lewis.

WZMY's Chief Meteorologist Al Kaprielian. Al is known all across New England for his unique presonality and frendliness.

Much of "MyTV"'s current local programming consists of visits to businesses around the region, in a format known as "MyShows". The general show for this format is My New England, although as of August 2006 variants focusing on specific topics have been added, such as My Premier Bride and My Good Health. These programs appear throughout the day. Additionally, several local businesses (particularly car dealerships, but sometimes other businesses such as Dollar Bill's Discount World) have produce programs that appear on weekend mornings. The latter programming had also appeared on WNDS. Chaotic Wrestling began airing a 30-minute monthly show in August 2007.

When "MyTV" launched, two other local programs also existed: a talk show entitled MyTV Prime (which originally aired from 9 to 10 p.m. and later from 8 to 9:30 p.m.), and Wild World (a review of action sports around the region, which was produced by Dan Egan). However, the station has subsequently discontinued these shows from its lineup (although Wild World is still produced for other outlets).

• Al Kaprielian, MyTV Chief Meteorologist

News reporter Nicole Papageorge left the station in November to begin work at WINK-TV in Fort Myers, FL.

Award-winning Sports and News Anchor Mike DeBlasi, the longest-tenured on-air employee besides Al Kaprielian, resigned in Nov. As a result, WZMY eliminated all daily news cut-ins, political commentary, and locally-produced public affairs programming.

• Diane Sutter - President / CEO
• Gene Steinberg - Chief Creative Officer
• Beverly Lalonde - Senior Account Manager
• Christopher Murphy - Account Manager
• Marci Francis - Senior Account Manager / Host
• Kathy Schubert - Senior Account Manager
• Kristina Letourneau - National / Paid Account Manager
• Rick DiMarzo - Senior Account Manager
• Tom Roy - Senior Account Manager

The most recent version of the late-1990s WNDS logo used until September 26, 2005.

WZMY's previous "My TV" logo used from 2005 until August of 2006.

The station's current "My TV" logo with network affiliation.

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