Жаңа Бедфордтағы WLWC телеарнасы және Court TV-ге қосылуы

Court TV affiliate in New Bedford, Massachusetts
the Court TV affiliate in the Providence–New Bedford broadcast area

WLWC (channel 28) is a television station licensed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, serving the Providence, Rhode Island, area as an affiliate of Court TV. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station shares transmitter facilities with former sister WPXQ TV (channel 69) on Champlin Hill in Ashaway, Rhode Island. WLWC is one of two major stations (along with ABC affiliate WLNE TV, channel 6) that serve Providence despite being licensed to the Massachusetts side of the market.

In the FCC's incentive auction, WLWC's spectrum was sold by OTA Broadcasting for $125,932,367, which then indicated that it would enter into a post auction channel sharing agreement. It was one of the few successful spectrum sales for an OTA owned station, and its only successful full power sale. On August 7, 2017, Nexstar Media Group (which had re entered the market earlier that year following its merger with Media General) announced that it would acquire WLWC's non spectrum assets for $4.1 million; in a statement, Nexstar said that the station's CW affiliation would complement its existing ownership and operation of WPRI TV and WNAC TV. WLWC entered into a channel sharing agreement with Ion Television owned and operated station WPXQ TV on September 1, 2017; the station then announced that it would "cease broadcasting on October 2, 2017 at 12:30 p. m. and begin channel sharing operations with another station, but will still be found on virtual channel 28." Following the commencement of the channel sharing, channel 28.1 began carrying Ion Plus, also dropping its other subchannels in the process; On December 5, 2017, Ion exercised an option to buy the WLWC license for $150,000; the deal was made possible by the new Trump administration and an FCC which removed ownership rules that required "eight voices" (or separate station owners) in a market following the formation of a duopoly. Ion also entered into a shared services agreement, retroactive to October 1, to operate WLWC. The sale closed in February 2018. On February 28, 2021, the station became an affiliate of Court TV after Ion Plus was shut down.

As a primary WB affiliate, WLWC aired Kids' WB programming; after the station became a primary UPN affiliate, the block was dropped, as UPN also carried a children's programming block (Disney's One Too). Kids' WB was not picked up again after UPN canceled its own children's block in 2003. The block, which was replaced with The CW4Kids in 2008, returned to WLWC when the station began airing CW programming. (The CW4Kids was renamed Toonzai in 2010 and then Vortexx in 2012; the block ended in 2014.) On April 1, 2002, WBZ TV added its weekday morning newscast and Sports Final to WLWC's lineup; a year later, WSBK TV's Red Sox This Week was also added to the schedule. This was done to serve viewers inconvenienced by Cox's removal of WBZ from its Rhode Island systems. In 2004, WLWC dropped the morning newscast; in its place, on September 13, the station, along with seven other Viacom owned UPN stations, began airing the nationally syndicated morning program The Daily Buzz. Sports Final and Red Sox This Week were retained (though Sports Final now aired on a half hour tape delay from its WBZ TV broadcast), and WLWC also added Phantom Gourmet from WSBK. Beginning with the 2005 season, WLWC (along with WSBK) began airing syndicated broadcasts of ACC college football and men's basketball games as Boston College's move to the conference created regional interest for the ACC. Until May 2007, two of WBZ's weekday morning personalities were shown on WLWC's broadcast of The Daily Buzz as the station itself had none. During the program's weather reports, meteorologist Barry Burbank did a thirty second local weather cut in. During commercial breaks, traffic reporter Rich Kirkland would give a quick traffic update. After CBS sold the station to Four Points, Sports Final and Red Sox This Week were dropped and the WBZ morning personalities were removed from The Daily Buzz. The station also aired two local public affairs shows on Sunday mornings, The Jim Vincent Show and a rebroadcast of WSBE TV's A Lively Experiment.

+Subchannel of WLWC on the WPXQ TV multiplex Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming 28.1 480i 16:9 CourtTV Court TV

WLWC discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 28, at midnight on December 9, 2008. The station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 22, using virtual channel 28.