WFET

, channel 9, is a full-power digital television station in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The station is owned and operated by the Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School District. The station's studios are located at Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School and the transmitter is located in the Laurel Bank Conservation Area bordering Fitchburg and Lunenburg. WFET is a PBS member station and it's signal covers all of Worcester and Middlesex Counties in Massachusetts and Hillsborough County in New Hampshire.

History
first aired on May 10, 1994. At first, the station was hindered by the fact that it did have a satellite facility at the time, as a result, most PBS programs were received via microwave and AT&T cable at a location in Worcester, and then recorded onto Betacam tape and then physically transported to WFET's transmission facilities in Lunenburg, a practice known in the television industry as "bicycling". This meant that viewers would have to wait a period of 3 days to see any of the offerings. When it was not showing any PBS fare it featured local in-house programming, local access programming and films (mostly blockbuster hits and old B-movies) to make up the difference.