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WFXZ-CD (channel 24) is a Class A television station in Boston, ... Concurrently, the station's carriage on Xfinity and Verizon FiOS was discontinued. Subchannels
The history of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and its predecessors spans two centuries, starting with one of the oldest railroads in the United States. Development of mass transportation both followed existing economic and population patterns, and helped shape those patterns. Privately owned mass transit in the Boston ...
Gore Place. / 42.37222°N 71.21139°W / 42.37222; -71.21139. Gore Place is a historic country house, now a museum, located at 52 Gore Street, Waltham, Massachusetts. It is owned and operated by the nonprofit Gore Place Society. The 45-acre (180,000 m 2) estate is open to the public daily without charge; an admission fee is charged for ...
Commonwealth Avenue (colloquially referred to as Comm Ave) is a major street in the cities of Boston and Newton, Massachusetts. It begins at the western edge of the Boston Public Garden, and continues west through the neighborhoods of the Back Bay, Kenmore Square, Boston University, Allston, Brighton and Chestnut Hill. It continues as part of Route 30 through Newton until it crosses the ...
King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) The King's Highway was a roughly 1,300-mile (2,100 km) road laid out from 1650 to 1735 in the American colonies. It was built on the order of Charles II of England, who directed his colonial governors to link Charleston, South Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts . The section north of New York City, laid ...
WDPX-TV now channel-shares with former parent station WBPX-TV; as the WBPX-TV signal does not reach Vineyard Haven, WDPX changed its city of license to Woburn, a northern suburb of Boston. Ion then took advantage of its main-channel carriage across the market to carry Ion Plus on the basic tier of most providers.
At the dawn of the American television industry, each company was only allowed to own a total of five television stations around the country. As such, when the networks launched their television operations, they found it more advantageous to put their five owned-and-operated stations in large media markets that had more households (and therefore, denser populations) on the belief that it would ...
Stagecoach. A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, diligence [1]) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are drawn by six horses.