The WNHC stations were among the first batch to be sold going to Capital Cities Communications along with sister stations WFIL-AM-FM-TV in Philadelphia and KFRE-AM-FM- TV in Fresno, California. Shapp complained the company had used its Pennsylvania stations in a smear campaign against him. Triangle was forced to sell its television stations in 1971 after then- Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. By contrast, most of Connecticut got a clear picture and pitch-perfect sound from channel 8. Many viewers northeast of Hartford used outdoor antennas to get spotty reception of CBS and NBC programs from Boston, and those southwest of Hartford with outdoor TV antennas got equally spotty reception from their respective New York flagship stations. Until the original WTIC-TV (channel 3, now WFSB) signed on from Hartford in September 1957, WNHC-TV was the only station on the VHF dial in Connecticut. This left channel 8 as a sole ABC affiliate, although it shared network programming with WATR-TV (channel 20, now WCCT-TV) in nearby Waterbury until 1966. Also that same year, WNHC-TV lost its CBS affiliation when that network purchased WGTH-TV in Hartford (channel 18, later WHCT and now WUVN).
In 1956, the WNHC stations were bought by Triangle Publications of Philadelphia. WNHC-TV shared some CBS programming with New Britain's WKNB-TV (channel 30, now WVIT) until 1955, since WKNB's signal was not strong enough to cover New Haven at the time. The next year, the FCC combined New Haven and Hartford into a single market. As a result, WNHC-TV changed frequencies and moved to channel 8 in December 1953. When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Sixth Report and Order ended the four-year freeze on television construction permit awards in 1952, it also reorganized channel allocations to alleviate interference issues. The station was the first station in the country to use videotape for local programming and one of the first to broadcast in color. In October 1948 the station added CBS programming to its schedule, and additional secondary affiliations with NBC and ABC followed a year later. Without means to produce local programming, WNHC-TV simply rebroadcast the signal of DuMont's New York City flagship, WABD (now WNYW). The station broadcast from WNHC radio's building on Chapel Street in downtown New Haven, but with no studio facilities of its own. WNHC-TV was originally an affiliate of the DuMont Television Network, and claims to have been the first full-time station of that short-lived network. The station is Connecticut's oldest television outlet and the second-oldest in the New England region (WBZ-TV in Boston signed on less than a week earlier). The station was founded by the Elm City Broadcasting Corporation, the owners of WNHC radio (1340 AM, now WYBC and 99.1 FM, now WPLR). What today is WTNH first went on the air on June 15, 1948, as WNHC-TV, originally broadcasting on channel 6. New Haven/ Hartford/ New London, Connecticut The two stations share studios on Elm Street in downtown New Haven, and WTNH broadcasts from a transmitter located in Hamden, Connecticut. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, as part of a duopoly withMyNetworkTV affiliate WCTX (channel 59). WTNH, channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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