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Full-power digital · channel 33 · BOSTON, MA
| Facility ID | 65684 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | HEARST STATIONS INC. |
| Community of licence | BOSTON, MA
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 42.31028, -71.23667 |
| Effective radiated power | 922 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 431.9 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.wcvb.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 19
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| WJCB-LD | 3 | LPD | MILACHI MEDIA, LLC |
| WHDT-LD | 4 | LPD | THE GUENTER MARKSTEINER REVOCABLE TRUST |
| WFXZ-CD | 5 | DCA | WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION |
| WGBH-TV | 5 | DTV | WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION |
| W08FF-D | 8 | LPD | |
| W13EG-D | 13 | LPD | |
| W13EH-D | 13 | LPD | DIGITAL NETWORKS-MIDWEST, LLC |
| WBZ-TV | 20 | DTV | CBS TELEVISION LICENSES LLC |
| WSBK-TV | 21 | DTV | CBS TELEVISION LICENSES LLC |
| WBPX-TV | 22 | DTV | ION MEDIA BOSTON LICENSE, LLC |
| W23FZ-D | 23 | LPD | |
| W26EU-D | 26 | LPT | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WCVB-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WCVB-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.