WCEA-LP, channel 58, is a Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 low-power television station serving the Boston

Boston

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 market. The station is owned by C&M Broadcasting Corporation. WCEA is co-owned with La Semana, a local Spanish language newspaper.

History

WCEA was founded by Pedro Nicolas Cuenca in 1986 as W19AH, adopting its current call letters 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

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 affiliate in the early 1990s, before W32AY (now WTMU-LP

WTMU-LP

WTMU-LP is a low-power television station serving the Boston market. It is owned by ZGS Communications, and serves as the Telemundo affiliate for Boston and immediate suburbs. WTMU's programming is also available in southern New Hampshire and Boston's northern suburbs via a full-power satellite...

) signed on in 1995.

Initially broadcasting on channel 19, WCEA was forced to move to channel 58 in the early 2000s to accommodate the digital signal of WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...

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Since December 2010, Massachusetts Spanish TV Network (MAS TV) has partnered with WCEA to provide programming, including local newscasts at 6 a.m. and noon.

WCEA currently has applications to broadcast on channels 44 and 45 from atop the John Hancock Tower

John Hancock Tower

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