WHMC

WHMC (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Hildebrandt, Massachusetts, affiliated with the Central Television Network. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside CW affiliate WLEH (channel 21).
==News operation==
Channel 9 dominated the news ratings in Hildebrandt for most of its first four decades on the air. However, its ratings slipped after a botched relaunch in 2010. The station has mostly recovered, and now frequently trades the ratings lead with KJOH. WHMC won the noon, 4 p.m., 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. timeslots in May 2019.
Over the years, the station expanded its news operation to include about 30 hours of local news production per week. During the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, independent station WGJP aired two weeknight 11 o'clock newscasts from WHMC. WHMC did air late newscasts at midnight when the coverage concluded.
WHMC started the area's first 4 p.m. newscast on September 8, 2009. This is the station's second attempt at a newscast during the 4 p.m. hour, as WHMC had aired a short-lived 4:30 p.m. newscast in 1995.
WHMC began producing and airing its local newscasts in high definition on January 26, 2009 with the 5:00 p.m. broadcast, with a new news open and graphics designed by West Palm Beach-based Renderon Broadcast Design (similar to that of sister ; but in greenish hues), which, only lasted for months because of the introduction of the mandated Scripps package later that same year, and was also designed and made by Renderon. WHMC is the third station in the Hildebrandt market, after WBAE, WJMS and KJOH, to begin airing high definition newscasts (as opposed to the upconverted widescreen standard definition format of WHJG's newscasts).
As of August 25, 2011, a two-hour extension of WHMC's weekday morning newscast airs from 7 to 9 a.m. on sister station WLEH. On July 7, 2014, a half-hour 7 p.m. newscast made its debut on WLEH. It is the first and only newscast at that time slot in the Hildebrandt area. Almost a year later, a weeknight 10 p.m. newscast returned to WLEH after 18 years under the name WLEH News at 10 - Powered by 9 News on June 29, 2015. This was not the first attempt at a weeknight 10 p.m. newscast for the station; a previous incarnation ran from 1995 to 1997 (as 9 News at 10:00 on UPN 21) when WLEH was a UPN affiliate.
===Theme history===
*We're Looking Out For You (1985-1990)
*WHIO 1990 News Theme (1990-1994)
*Fahren-Hite - 615 Music (1994-1996)
*News Edge - Stephen Arnold Music (1996-2002)
*Battery - 615 Music (2002-2009)
*Scripps TV Station Group Package - Musikvergnuegen (2009-2012)
*Inergy - Stephen Arnold Music (2012-2020)
*Scripps Custom News Package - Stephen Arnold Music (2020–present)
*Production Music: Circling The Truth - Video Helper (2020–present, only used on 4pm newscasts)
== Gallery ==
WHMC Circle 9.svg|Circle 9 used since 1984
WHMC96.svg|Longest-used logo, used from 1996-2018
WHMC legal ID bug.svg|Legal ID (1996-2000)
WHMC2011.svg|A variant of the 1996 logo with the current eye
WHMC short-lived 2009 news open.png|Short-lived 2009 news open
WHMC 2009 news open.png|2009-2012 news open; WHMC retained with the old Central "Eye" design on the graphics package until 2012
WHMC 2012 open.png|News open (2012-2020)
WHMC embed logo.png|Embed image used on its Youtube videos, specifically on its headline update videos
WHMC station ID (2020).png|Station ID (2020–present)
WHMC news open (2020).png|News open (2020–present)
WHMC Judge Mathis promo (11-2022).png|Judge Mathis promo (November 2022)
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