WMFP

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WMFP

Lawrence / Boston, Massachusetts
Branding	WMFP-TV 62
Slogan	Quality Products, Honest Values
Channels	62 (UHF) analog, 18 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Shop at Home Jewelry Television
Owner	The E.W. Scripps Company (WSAH License, Inc.) (Sale to Multicultural Television pending)
Founded	February 10, 1984
Call letters meaning	"We're Media For The People"
Former affiliations	Independent (1992-94) NBC (Secondary, 1992-94)

WMFP is a television station in the Boston market. The station is licenced to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, carrying both the Shop at Home and Jewelry Television networks as a result of SAH's closure and subsequent relaunch. In addition to these home shopping programs, it carries the New Zoo Revue and Ask Gilby every Wednesday morning to fulfill FCC requirements to air educational programming.

The WMFP call letters were installed on February 10, 1984. However, the station didn't take to the air until 1992.

On May 16, 2006, parent company E.W. Scripps announced that Shop at Home would be suspending operations, effective June 22, 2006. [1] However, the network temporarily ceased operations on June 21, and WMFP switched to Jewelry Television (and, on June 23, a mixture of both networks).

On September 26, 2006, Scripps announced that it was selling its Shop at Home stations, including WMFP, to Multicultural Television of New York City for $170 million. [2] As of current, it is unknown if Multicultural plans any future programming changes with channel 62, though before the sale announcement MyNetworkTV was once discussed as a possibility [3] (that network subsequently affiliated with WZMY-TV).

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Broadcast television in the Boston market (Nielsen DMA #7)

WGBH 2 (PBS) - WBZ 4 (CBS) - WCVB 5 (ABC) - WHDH 7 (NBC) (WX+ on DT) - WFXZ 24 (AZA) - WFXT 25 (Fox) - WUNI 27 (UNI) - WTMU 32 / WNEU 60 (TEL) - WSBK 38 (Ind) - WGBX 44 (PBS) - WWDP 46 (ShopNBC) - WYDN 48 (DS) - WZMY 50 (MNTV) - WLVI 56 (The CW) (The Tube on DT2) - WMFP 62 (S@H/JTV) - WUTF 66 (TFU) - WBPX 68 (i)
Local digital television channels
WHDN 26 (DW)
Local and regional cable television channels
CN8 - NECN 6 - NESN - FSN New England - CatholicTV - TV3 Medford - CKSH 9 (SRC, Sherbrooke)

Other Television Stations in the state of Massachusetts

Boston Spanish Language Stations: WFXZ 24 (Azteca América, Boston) - WUNI 27 (Univision, Worcester) - WTMU 32 (Telemundo, Boston) - WUTF 66 (TeleFutura, Marlborough)
Boston Home-Shopping Stations: WWDP 46 (ShopNBC, Norwell) - WMFP 62 (Shop at Home / Jewelry Television, Lawrence)
Other Boston Stations: WHDN 26 (Deutsche Welle, Boston) - WSBK 38 (Independent, Boston) - WYDN 48 (Daystar, Worcester) - WBPX 68 (i, Boston)
Springfield Market Stations: WFXQ 28* - WHTX 43 (Univision) - WDMR 65 (Telemundo) *: Station is currently simulcasting NBC affiliate WWLP, future plans are undecided.
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC and PBS stations in Massachusetts