WCEA-LD

WCEA-LD is a low-power Spanish-language independent television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Owned by C&M Broadcasting Corporation, it is a sister property to El Planeta, a local Spanish-language newspaper. The station's studios are located on Albany Street in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood; while its transmitter is located atop the John Hancock Tower in the Back Bay.

History

WCEA-LD was founded by Pedro Nicolas Cuenca in 1986 as W19AH, becoming WCEA-LP in 1995. It has always been a platform for local multicultural independent producers in the Boston market. The station also served as Boston's Telemundo affiliate in the early 1990s, before W32AY signed on in 1995.
Initially broadcasting on channel 19, WCEA-LP was forced to vacate the channel to accommodate the digital signal of WGBH-TV. In 2002, it moved to channel 3 via special temporary authority, but its application for the channel was subsequently dismissed by the Federal Communications Commission due to objections from other Boston stations, AT&T Broadband, and RCN; soon thereafter, WCEA-LP relocated to channel 58.
Since December 2010, Massachusetts Spanish TV Network has partnered with WCEA-LD to provide programming, including local newscasts at 6 a.m. and noon.
In the early 2010s, WCEA-LP had two applications convert to digital operations on channels 44 and 45, with both specifying a transmitter location atop the John Hancock Tower; the station ultimately chose to build the channel 45 facility.

The station's signal is multiplexed: