WFSB

About WFSB

WFSB, channel 3, is the CBS-affiliated television station for the state of Connecticut that is licensed to Hartford. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal from a transmitter on Avon Mountain. Owned by the Meredith Corporation, the station has studios on Capital Boulevard in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

WFSB ended programming on its analog signal, on VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009 , as part of the DTV transition in the United States, and continued to broadcast on its pre-transition digital channel 33 , using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as 3. WFSB is the only Connecticut station participating in the "Analog Nightlight" program, and will do so through June 26, 2009.

Connecticut's second VHF station debuted September 21, 1957 as WTIC-TV and was an independent station owned by the Hartford-based Travelers Insurance Company along with WTIC radio (1080 AM) and WTIC-FM (96.5 MHz.). It was one of the most powerful stations in the Northeast covering nearly all of Connecticut, much of western Massachusetts (including Springfield) and parts of Long Island. By 1958, CBS was looking to sell its owned-and-operated station in Hartford, WHCT-TV (channel 18, now WUVN).