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WFSB, channel three, is an affiliate of the CBS television network serving most of the state of Connecticut, owned by the Meredith Corporation. Licensed to the state capital of Hartford, WFSB's signal can be reached as far away as southwest New Hampshire. WFSB's studios are located at 3 Constitution Plaza in Hartford, with transmitter on Avon Mountain.
History
The station first signed on September 21, 1957 as WTIC-TV, an independent station owned by the Hartford-based Travelers Insurance Company along with WTIC-AM (1080 kHz.).
By 1959, CBS was looking to move its programming from its owned and operated station in Hartford, WHCT-TV (channel 18, now WUVN). CBS' ratings had been astonishingly low in Hartford because television manufacturers were not required to have UHF tuners at the time. The network figured it was better to have its programming on a VHF station, even if it was merely an affiliate. When CBS began shopping around for a new affiliate, it was a foregone conclusion that WTIC-TV would get the affiliation, since WTIC-AM had long been Hartford's CBS Radio affiliate.
In early 1974, Travelers Insurance decided to sell the WTIC stations and sold WTIC-TV to the Washington Post Company in 1974 while keeping WTIC AM/FM in the interim. The Post's broadcasting division changed the calls to WFSB, after broadcasting division president Frederick S. Beebe; in 1978 the broadcasting division would be restructured into Post-Newsweek Stations. In 1984, the WTIC-TV calls would return when then-radio owner Arch Communications signed on a television station channel 61.
In the late 1980s amid the Post wanting to give its subcorporations their own identity, Post-Newsweek moved its corporate offices from Washington, DC to office space located alongside WFSB making that station the company's flagship. Initially this strategy worked well, however by the mid 1990s WFSB lacked any cluster opportunities around it and had the disadvantage of a shrinking market. In June 1997, Post-Newsweek swapped WFSB to the Meredith Corporation for WCPX-TV (now WKMG-TV) in Orlando, Florida with the sale closing that October though the Post-Newsweek group maintained its base in Hartford until 2000 when it relocated to the company's then-largest station, WDIV in Detroit, Michigan.
From 1965 until 2003, WFSB was also the default CBS affiliate for the Springfield, Massachusetts market. Seeing an opportunity to increase their presence in the northeast, at the start of 2004 WFSB began operating a low-power station in Springfield; WSHM-LP, on channel 67. WSHM can also be seen on WFSB's digital signal (33.2/3.2).