WBOC-LD

Cambridge/Salisbury, Maryland United States
City	Cambridge, Maryland
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 42
Branding	Telemundo Delmarva; Telemundo 42 Noticias WBOC en Telemundo Delmarva (news)
Programming
Affiliations	42.1: Telemundo 31.3: NBC 16.3: Antenna TV
Ownership
Owner	Draper Holdings Business Trust (WBOC, Inc.)
Sister stations	TV: WBOC-TV, WRDE-LD Radio: WBOC-FM, WCEM-FM, WTDK, WCEM, WAAI, WZBH, WGBG-FM, WRDE-FM[1]
History
Founded	December 15, 2011 (12 years ago) (2011-12-15)
First air date	October 2, 2017 (6 years ago) (2017-10-02) (in Georgetown, Delaware; license moved to Cambridge in 2020)
Former call signs	W42EI-D (2011−2017)
Call sign meaning	We're Between the Ocean and the Chesapeake
Technical information
Facility ID	187976
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	248.5 m (815 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°30′18″N 75°38′36″W / 38.50500°N 75.64333°W / 38.50500; -75.64333 (CP)
Links
Website	www.telemundodelmarva.com

WBOC-LD (channel 42) is a low-power television station licensed to Cambridge, Maryland, United States, serving the Salisbury, Maryland market as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network.^[2] It is owned by the Draper Holdings Business Trust alongside dual CBS/Fox affiliate WBOC-TV (channel 16) and low-power NBC affiliate WRDE-LD (channel 31), as well as eight radio stations.^[1] Telemundo Delmarva shares studios with sister station WRDE-LD in Milton, Delaware,^[3] 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.

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 systems including Comcast Xfinity in Delaware and Maryland and Verizon Fios in Delaware.^[4] Also in November, a standard definition simulcast of WBOC-LD started being broadcast on WBOC-TV on channel 42.2. That simulcast ended on August 13, 2018.^[5]

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^{[citation needed]} 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.^[6] In May 2019, a simulcast of WRDE-LD began being broadcast on a new subchannel.^[7] 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 digital signal is multiplexed:^[8]

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.