WLVI (fictional)

WLVI (channel 56) is a television station licensed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, serving the Boston area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Whitebird Broadcasting Group. WLVI maintains studios on Guest Street in northwest Boston's Brighton neighborhood, in the same building as PBS member stations WGBH-TV, channel 2, and WGBX-TV, channel 44, Class A Biz TV affiliate WFXZ-CD, channel 24, and public radio stations WGBH, 89.7 FM, and WCRB, 99.5 FM (but with completely separate operations from those stations). WLVI transmits using the spectrum of WHDH (channel 7) from the WHDH-TV tower in Newton, Massachusetts.

CW affiliation and Whitebird purchase
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment (the division that operated The WB) announced that they would dissolve UPN and The WB, and combine UPN and The WB's most popular programs alongside new series on a newly created network, The CW, which launched September 18, 2006. The network signed 10-year affiliation agreements with 16 of Tribune's 19 WB affiliates, including WLVI, even though CBS owned WSBK.

As this was going on, however, Tribune was attempting to improve its balance sheet as part of a "performance improvement plan" that called for $500 million in asset sales. On September 14, 2006, four days prior to the launch of The CW, Tribune Broadcasting announced that WLVI would be sold to the, -based Whitebird Broadcasting Group for $117.3 million. The sale was announced to employees the day some received new "Boston's CW" business cards. The sale received FCC approval in late November 2006, and was completed on December 18, 2006.

In January 2008, Whitebird announced WLVI would move into leased space at the 's headquarters at 1 Guest Street in the neighborhood of Boston. WLVI's former studios at 75 Morrissey Boulevard in has remained vacant since the move to Brighton; in 2009, a lease on the site was described as a "tough sell". The site was later purchased by car dealer (who proposed a new car dealership on the site); in 2020 and 2021, plans were proposed for redevelopment of the site and, in future phases, adjacent parcels. As of 2022, a decaying "Boston's CW" sign graces the entrance to the property, while a dilapidated "Boston's WB" sign remains visible atop the pylon on the studio building, a site the Dorchester Reporter community newspaper described as "verging on eyesore status". Despite the co-location, WLVI maintains separate broadcast facilities from, , , and  and employs a completely separate staff. Each station's employees are restricted by keycards from entering the other's facilities.

News operation
As of 2022, WLVI presently broadcasts 36 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station operates a Bell LongRanger 206L news helicopter entitled the "LVI SkySearcher".

Notable on-air staff

 * Farrusha Ward – weeknight news anchor
 * Anthony Helder - chief meteorologist