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WFSB is an affiliate of the CBS 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.

It 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 weren't 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, and the Post changed the calls to WFSB, after publisher Franklin S. Beebe. (The WTIC calls later landed on channel 61, a Fox affiliate). The Post sold WFSB to Meredith in 1997.

Since 2004, WFSB has operated a low-power station in Springfield, Massachusetts; WSHM-TV, on channel 67. It is a semi-satellite of WFSB, but does not air local news as of 2005. It identifies on-air as "CBS 3" because it is located on channel 3 on most cable systems in western Massachusetts.

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