Uploaded October 2007 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
These are a few video memories of Boston's late, lamented WLVI-TV/Channel 56. The station ended its long run of independence in 2006 when it was acquired by Sunbeam Television and operated as a duopoly with Channel 7. WLVI was then moved from its longtime headquarters on Morrissey Boulevard and merged with Sunbeam's WHDH in Government Center.
Channel 56 signed on the air as WKBG in 1966 under the joint ownership of Kaiser Broadcasting and The Boston Globe newspaper. The call letters were changed to WLVI in 1974.
Excerpts in this sequence:
* WKBG-TV inaugural sign-on, 1966
* 1970s "Creature Double Feature" bumper
* Open from the first half-hour "News at 10" broadcast, 1984
* "Living 56" promo donut, 1985
These are a few video memories of Boston's late, lamented WLVI-TV/Channel 56. The station ended its long run of independence in 2006 when it was acquired by Sunbeam Television and operated as a duopoly with Channel 7. WLVI was then moved from its longtime headquarters on Morrissey Boulevard and merged with Sunbeam's WHDH in Government Center.
Channel 56 signed on the air as WKBG in 1966 under the joint ownership of Kaiser Broadcasting and The Boston Globe newspaper. The call letters were changed to WLVI in 1974.
Excerpts in this sequence:
* WKBG-TV inaugural sign-on, 1966
* 1970s "Creature Double Feature" bumper
* Open from the first half-hour "News at 10" broadcast, 1984
* "Living 56" promo donut, 1985
