year. The SOI programming ended in 2013, and infomercial programming was once again added back to the subchannel, with just one local program airing, the morning show Al Día. This format continued through late December; Biz TV was then added, making WMBQ-CD the first station to air financial programming in the New York City TV market since WBIS aired financial programming from 1996 to 1998. Spectrum sale and donation to WNET In the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s incentive auction, WMBQ-CD sold its spectrum for $28,313,224 and indicated that it would enter into a post-auction channel sharing agreement. On September 29, 2017, the station entered into a channel sharing agreement with WNET (channel 13); concurrently, Prime Time Partners agreed to donate the WMBQ license to WNET. The donation was completed on December 22, 2017; the next day, WMBQ-CD was taken off-the-air while WNET prepared to move the shared transmitter to the World Trade Center. The station returned to the air in November 2018 as an affiliate of MHz Worldview. Like WNDT-CD, WMBQ-CD airs NJTV News with Mary Alice Williams and a locally produced program, Metrofocus. Among local programing PBS Kids Sprout and Cyberchase airs on Saturday afternoons from WNET. After MHz Networks announced in January that MHz Worldview will cease operations by March 1, 2020 in favor of digital streaming, WNET switched its programming to First Nations Experience. Digital channels WMBQ-CD transmits one channel on the multiplex shared with WNET and WNDT-CD: A third subchannel, EEE, a Spanish-language religious network, was added in 2014 but with low audio levels. In January 2015, EEE was replaced with long-form infomercial programming. Biz TV was previously on WMBQ's primary channel 46.1 until it was donated to WNET. References External links Television channels and stations established in 1997 1997 establishments in New York (state) Low-power television stations in the United States MBQ-CD