WFSB

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WFSB
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Hartford, Connecticut
Branding	Channel 3
Slogan	"Everywhere"
Analog channel	3 (VHF)
Digital channel	33 (UHF)
Affiliations	CBS (since 1959)
Owner	Meredith Corporation
Founded	1957
Call letters meaning	Franklin S. Beebe (former publisher of the Washington Post, which used to own the station)
Former affiliations	Independent (1957–59)
Website	www.wfsb.com

WFSB, "Channel 3" 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.

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 Franklin 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 sold the station to Meredith Corporation in 1997.

Since 2004, WFSB has operated a low-power station in Springfield, Massachusetts; WSHM-LP, on channel 67. It is a semi-satellite of WFSB, and began airing 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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Broadcast television in the Hartford/New Haven market
WFSB 3 (CBS) - WTNH 8 (ABC) - WHTX 10 (A1) - WRDM 13 (TMD/RAI) - WUVN 18 (UNI) - WTXX 20 (WB) - WEDH 24 (PBS) - WHPX 26 (i) - WVIT 30 (NBC) - WHCT 38 (Religious) - WSAH 43 (S@H) - WUTH 47 (TFR) - WEDW 49 (PBS) - W51BZ 51 (Ind) - WEDN 53 (PBS) - WCTX 59 (UPN) - WTIC 61 (FOX) - WEDY 65 (PBS)