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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 but kept WTIC AM and FM. Post-Newsweek changed the calls to WFSB, after publisher Franklin S. Beebe. (WTIC AM & FM would be sold to Arch Broadcasting and Arch Broadcasting would sign on a TV Station of their own where The WTIC TV calls later landed on channel 61, a Fox affiliate).
Over the years WFSB 3 was known to preempt moderate amounts of CBS programming but cable systems often carried CBS 2 New York. The preemptions tenede to be Daytime Morning shows, some Saturday Morning Cartoons and CBS Late Night programming prior to David Letterman.
Post-Newsweek later sold WFSB 3 to Meredith in 1997. Today WFSB runs the entire CBS Schedule in most cases.
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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