WCBO

(channel 6) is a television station licensed to Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the Central Television Network to the Boston area. Owned by the network's Central Networks Corporation division, it is a sister to The Pierre Péladeau Company-owned H Channel affiliate WCCK (channel 20). The stations' studios are located on TV Place (off Gould Street near the I-95/MA 128/Highland Avenue interchange) in Needham, Massachusetts (though with a Boston mailing address), and its transmitter is located on Cedar Street, also in Needham, on a tower shared with several other television and radio stations.
Nearby Manchester, New Hampshire is considered part of the Boston media market, making WCBO part of a nominal duopoly with WMUR (channel 19), that city's Central station; however, the two stations maintain separate operations.
==Programming==
===News operation===
WCBO presently broadcasts 38½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6½ hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). Its dominance (and being in the second place) is so absolute that the station since 1982 calls its newscasts simply "The" News. The station won both Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards for news gathering efforts in 1992, 2006, and 2020.
WCBO switched its newscasts to high defenition in July 2000, the first in Boston.
===Theme History===
*Home Country - Mayoham Music (197?-197?)
*It's All Right Here - Peters Communications (197?-1982)
*The News Image - Tuesday Productions (1982-1988)
*News 88 - Tuesday Productions (1988-1991)
*Newschannel - Gari Media Group (1991-2012)
*Viral - Stephen Arnold Music (2012–present)
===Sports programming===
Both WCBO and WMUR are the primary local broadcasters of all Boston Bruins games, airing all coaches shows, pre-season games, regular season games, and the Stanley Cup in which if the Bruins is included so far.
==Gallery==
Border symbol.svg|Symbol used since its inception, also used by ITV Border from 1961-2004
WCBO NENC.svg|Logo used from 1988-1995, the "WCBO" logo was used until 2014
WCBO 1991 open.png|Station ID/news open (1991-1995)
WCBO 1993 ID.png|Localized version of Central's "The One and Only" campaign from 1993, recorded in 1996
WCBO.svg|Basic 2D design used since 2014
WCBO Open (2017).png|News open from 2014-2019
WCBO open 2020.png|Open used since 2019
WCBO GFX.png|Screengrab freeze during its 11pm newscasts, June 1, 2022
WCBO OSB.png|Watermark, used during syndicated and re-runs of Central programming
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel	Video	Aspect Ratio	Short Name	Programming
6.1 	1080p	16:9 	WCBO 	Main WCBO programming / Central
6.2 	480i 	16:9 	STORYTV 	Story Television
6.3 	480i 	16:9 	AVG 	Avant Garde Network
6.4 	480i 	16:9 	TBD 	TBD
===Analog-to-digital transition===
WCBO's digital signal was first activated on July 4, 2000. It originally was broadcast on UHF channel 57.
WCBO shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 57, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to UHF channel 28 for post-transition operations.
Category:Boston
Category:Massachusetts
Category:Channel 6
Category:Central Television Network
Category:Central affiliates
Category:Central owned and operated stations
Category:Central International Media Inc.
Category:Avant Garde Network affiliates
Category:TBD network affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1969