WFSB

WFSB
CityHartford, Connecticut
Channels
Branding
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WGGB-TV, WSHM-LD, WWAX-LD
History
First air date
September 23, 1957 (67 years ago) (1957-09-23)
Former call signs
WTIC-TV (1957–1974)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 3 (VHF, 1957–2009)
  • Digital: 33 (UHF, 2005–2019)
Independent (1957–1958)
Call sign meaning
Frederick Sessions Beebe (former president of former owner Post-Newsweek Stations)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID53115
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT289 m (948 ft)
Transmitter coordinates41°46′30″N 72°48′18.3″W / 41.77500°N 72.805083°W / 41.77500; -72.805083
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.wfsb.com
WWAX-LD
  • Hartford, Connecticut
Channels
BrandingtheWAX
Programming
Affiliations
History
First air date
March 11, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-03-11) (in Westmoreland, NH)
Former call signs
  • W20EB-D
  • W27ER-D
Former channel number(s)
  • Digital: 20 (UHF)
Call sign meaning
The word wax
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID186687
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT273.7 m (898 ft)
Transmitter coordinates41°46′30″N 72°48′18.3″W / 41.77500°N 72.805083°W / 41.77500; -72.805083
Links
Public license information
LMS
Websitewww.wfsb.com/wwax/

WFSB (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Hartford, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of CBS. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on Denise D'Ascenzo Way in Rocky Hill and a transmitter on Talcott Mountain in Avon, Connecticut.

Most of WFSB's programs are seen in Springfield, Massachusetts, over a low-power semi-satellite station, WSHM-LD (channel 33). That station is based at the facilities of sister station WGGB-TV (channel 40) in Springfield, although some master control and other internal operations are hubbed through WFSB.

WFSB also maintains a second sister station, WWAX-LD (channel 27), also licensed to Hartford. Known on-air as theWax, WWAX-LD mainly features simulcasts and repeats of WFSB's news programming, along with second runs of its syndicated shows and other Gray-produced programming. Its own third subchannel features a full-time automated feed of WFSB news briefs, headlines, current weather conditions, and other miscellanea known as Eyewitness News Now, which simulcasts on the station's website and mobile app.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WFSB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WWAX-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.