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WFSB presently broadcasts 41 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of news per week (with 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday and 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). WFSB has been far and away the ratings leader in the Hartford–New Haven television market for as long as it has been a CBS affiliate, [16] with WTNH and WVIT regularly switching between a distant second and third place. [17]
Terzi continued as news co-anchor until he left in June 1978 and then became News Anchor, then News Director, at WPEC-TV12 in West Palm Beach, FL. In October 1978, Terzi was seriously injured when the twin-engine Cessna he piloted, with 4 other WPEC senior staff on board, had engine/fuel problems on approach to the Tallahassee, FL airport.
By the time he retired from his daily show in 1991, his was the longest running radio programs in the country. Steele continued to host a Saturday morning radio show on WTIC until his death at age 91. For much of his time at WTIC, he also hosted the evening sports program on both WTIC radio and television (originally WTIC-TV and later WFSB 3).
In 1957, a television station was added, WTIC-TV on channel 3. As network programming moved from radio to television in the 1950s, WTIC-AM-FM switched to a full service, middle of the road format of popular music, talk, news and sports. In the 1960s, WTIC-FM started playing blocks of classical music in the afternoon and evening, eventually ...
The successful advent of subscription television (STV) in the late 1970s led a number of applicants to express their interest in channel 61 in Hartford. The first two groups to do so each had plans to introduce STV on their stations: Golden West Broadcasters, the Los Angeles-based media company owned by Gene Autry, and Hartford Television, a subsidiary of the fledgling Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Baughns-Wallace began working in television in Albany, New York, in 1973. [4] In August 1974, she left WAST in Albany and joined WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut. Her initial work at WFSB included writing and presenting the 7:30 a.m. News Sign and being co-anchor of its noon Eyewitness News broadcast. [2]
Darwin Payne, a former Dallas Times Herald reporter and professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, was one of the first reporters on scene covering the assassination of President John F ...
As with many ultra high frequency (UHF) stations of its day, it was at an economic disadvantage to very high frequency (VHF) stations; however, Hartford's VHF channel 3 was tied up in hearings. In 1955, CBS announced its intention to purchase channel 18; the station became a CBS affiliate later that year, and the deal closed in September 1956 ...