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WFSB ("Channel 3") is an affiliate of the CBS television network serving most of the state of Connecticut. It is licensed to Hartford. The station is located on channel 3 and is owned by Meredith Corporation.

WFSB's current news anchors include Al Terzi, Denise D'Ascenzo and Dennis House.

History

The station first signed on in 1957 as WTIC-TV, an independent station owned by the Travelers Insurance Company along with WTIC-AM 1080. In 1959, CBS moved its Hartford affiliation to channel 3 from its owned and operated station WHCT (now WUVN). CBS' ratings had been astonishingly low in Hartford because television manufacturers were not required to have UHF tuners at the time. CBS figured it was better to have its programming on a VHF station, even if it was merely an affiliate.

Travelers sold the station to the Washington Post in 1974 but kept WTIC AM and FM. Post-Newsweek changed the calls to WFSB, after publisher Frederick S. Beebe. (The WTIC radio stations were sold to Arch Broadcasting, which later signed on a television station of its own on channel 61, under the WTIC call sign).

Post-Newsweek later swapped the station to Meredith Corporation for WCPX (now WKMG) in Orlando in 1997 even though the Post-Newsweek group was run out of WFSB at the time (and would be run out of Harford until 2000).

Since 2004, WFSB has operated a low-power station in Springfield, Massachusetts; WSHM-LP, on channel 67.

External links

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