WBOC-LD (channel 42) is a
low-power television station licensed to
Cambridge, Maryland, United States, serving the
Salisbury, Maryland
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market
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as an affiliate of the Spanish-language
Telemundo
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network. It is owned by the
Draper Holdings Business Trust alongside dual
CBS/
Fox affiliate
WBOC-TV
WBOC-TV (channel 16) is a television station in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox. It is the flagship television property of the Milton, Delaware–based Draper Holdings Business Trust, and is co-owned with low ...
(channel 16) and low-power
NBC
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affiliate
WRDE-LD (channel 31), as well as eight radio stations.
Telemundo Delmarva shares studios with sister station WRDE-LD in Milton, Delaware, and WBOC-LD's transmitter is located near
Laurel. WBOC-LD's programming is repeated on Salisbury-licensed WSJZ-LD (channel 34), with transmitter near
Millsboro, Delaware
Millsboro is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Millsboro is part of the Salisbury metropolitan area.
History
Millsboro's earliest European settlers were of English family origin; though most were second generation colonists who ...
.
History
On October 20, 2017, WBOC launched a new channel to be the area's Telemundo affiliate. In November 2017, WBOC-LD secured carriage on Delmarva area
cable
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systems including
Comcast Xfinity in Delaware and Maryland and
Verizon Fios in Delaware. Also in November, a
standard definition
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simulcast of WBOC-LD started being broadcast on WBOC-TV on channel 42.2. That simulcast ended on August 13, 2018.
In February 2018, the station began producing local news and weather updates in
Spanish airing multiple times a day. The newscasts utilize the studio, graphics, music and talent of sister station WBOC-TV. Beginning in April 2019, a simulcast of WBOC-LD started being broadcast on WSJZ-LD on channel 42.3; that facility had been acquired by Draper in 2017. In May 2019, a simulcast of WRDE-LD began being broadcast on a new subchannel. In December 2019, a simulcast of WBOC-LD's Telemundo subchannel started being broadcast on WRDE-LD.
The station moved its license from Georgetown to Cambridge in 2020. In 2021, WBOC-LD moved from digital UHF channel 42 to UHF channel 22. On July 26, 2021, WBOC-TV's Antenna TV subchannel was moved to WBOC-LD and began broadcasting on channel 16.3.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
multiplexed
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:
The same channels are broadcast on WSJZ-LD, but with different minor channel numbers: 42.2, 31.4, and 16.4.
Telemundo Delmarva is also rebroadcast as channel 42.2 from
WRDE-LD, which is co-sited with WBOC-LD at the Laurel tower, and WRUE-LD, broadcasting from a site northwest of
Pocomoke City. WBOC Classics is broadcast as channel 16.5 from the former but not the latter.
References
External links
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Television channels and stations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Delaware
Telemundo affiliates
BOC-LD
BOC-LD
Georgetown, Delaware
Cambridge, Maryland
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