WQCV-TV

WQCV-TV; virtual channel 45 (digital channel 20) is a television station in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, affiliated with the multicast network Heroes & Icons. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, who also owns York Beach licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WMMY-TV; which is operated by Entravision Communications through an LMA deal. WQCV-TV's transmitter is located on Merrill Hill in Hudson; under the LMA and SSA, master control and most internal operations of WMMY-TV and WQCV-TV are based at the facilities housing Entravision's Manchester TV & radio cluster on Commerce Drive in Bedford.

As WGOO-TV
On August 30, 1987, WGOO-TV would launch as Manchester's second independent station behind WNDS-TV. The station was owned by the Lincoln Broadcasting Company, who also owned KTSF in San Francisco. Owing to that station, WGOO-TV was a multicultural independent, mostly carrying programs from Asia including various dramas, sitcoms, and animes, all dubbed in English. The station also aired many sitcoms from 1950 to 1965 (usually during the morning hours). The station's lineup would expand in 1988, with the addition of non-dubbed Asian programs. KTSF had already done that before in 1981. However, compared to its older sister station from San Fran, WGOO-TV pretty much did rather terrible in the ratings.

After only 4 years, WGOO-TV would drop no longer be a multicultural independent station and would become a charter affiliate of ValueVision on March 12, 1991. The station would gain some competition when WQCV-TV picked up programs from HSN, and again when WIHS-TV became an HSN O&O, but however, the station wasn't really affected anything of this. In 1995, ValueVision Media would be bought out WGOO-TV, making it an O&O affiliate of ValueVision.

Simulcast of WQCV-TV, and later WFNH-LP
On July 8, 1997, ValueVision would sell WGOO-TV to QCV Media. QCV Media would then turn it into a simulcast of WQCV-TV, meant to broadcast in areas of Manchester where WQCV-TV was normally not viewable. The station's call-letters would also change to WTQC-TV to match that of WQCV-TV.

In 2000, Queen City Broadcasting (owner of WRUM-TV) would purchase QCV Media (including WQCV-TV and WTQC-TV), thus forming a duopoly; the first one in Manchester. The move was criticized by local newspapers, and viewers of the stations as they believed Willy Tetmajer (founder and CEO of Queen City Broadcasting) was doing this in order to eliminate competition in the Manchester TV market.

In May 2001, W13OX was announced to become the Manchester's new affiliate of the Fox network. The station's owner, Entravision Communications found the low powered signal to be rather unreliable at times. So, Entravision made a deal with Queen City Broadcasting in which Entravision would purchase both WQCV-TV and WTQC-TV from Queen City Broadcasting. The sale closed on December 19, 2001. WTQC-TV, much like sister station WQCV-TV would switch to a simulcast of W13OX (later known as WFNH-LP), and would adopt the call letters WFTN-TV.

Because WFNH-LP had two satellite stations of equal reception, and the fact that WFNH-TV would increase its signal over the years, WFTN-TV's status as a satellite of WFNH-LP was considered by many as redundant. However, the station would continue to air the entire Fox lineup until 2007.

"Anda Azul"
On March 8, 2007, WFTN-TV would drop the majority of all Fox shows, and would switch to an Spanish language independent station branded as "Anda Azul". Anda Azul was similar in structure to the CityVision brand that was used throughout various USA Broadcasting stations back in the late 90s. The station's lineup mostly included game shows (Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune), sitcoms (Friends, Seinfeld, Everybody Hates Chris), adult animated shows (The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Family Guy), imported content (El Chavo del Ocho, Sábado Gigante), and children's shows (Drake and Josh, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, and Sylvan).

The station's programming was handled by Univision, a partner to Entravision Communications with Univision owning a 10% stake in the company. While most of the shows came for Spanish speaking countries or sourced from a Spanish dub (particularly from Latin America), Some shows have exceptions. All the game shows that WFTN-TV aired retain their English audio but had Spanish subtitles, while Sylvan, a Catalan produced animated series from D'Ocon Film Productions, is in its original Catalan form with no subtitles at all. On December 7, 2007, following Univision's sale of WMTF-TV to Entravision, WFNH-TV and WFTN-TV would be sold to Queen City Broadcasting II (which was formed by ex-employees from the original Queen City Broadcasting) to prevent ownership problems. Entravision, however would enter an LMA deal with Queen City Broadcasting II allowing Entravision to continue operating both stations.

As an affiliate of Heroes & Icons
On December 5, 2014, Queen City Broadcasting II would be bought by Howard Stirk Holdings (a group owned by conservative political commentator Armstrong Williams), the company had made previous LMA deals with Sinclair Broadcasting, and were initially going cut ties with Entravision. However, Entravision and HSH would renew WMMY-TV and WQCV-TV's LMA deal with Entravision's Manchester stations. 2 days after the purchase on December 7, WFTN-TV would switch from a Spanish-language independent to a full time affiliate of Heroes & Icons, completely dropping Fox programming after 13 years. The Anda Azul branding and the Spanish language independent affiliation would move 45.2 after the move. On December 16, 2014, the station's call-letters changed again to WQCV-TV, adopting the call-letters from WMMY-TV.

In 2016, The station would end its LMA with Entravision with WQCV-TV. However, Entravision would still provide select programming and services to the station under a shared services agreement.