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City | Waterbury, Connecticut |
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Branding | CW 20 |
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WTIC-TV | |
History | |
First air date | September 10, 1953 |
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Call sign meaning | CW Connecticut |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 14050 |
ERP | 220 kW |
HAAT | 517 m (1,696 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°42′13″N 72°49′55″W / 41.70361°N 72.83194°W |
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Website | www |
WCCT-TV (channel 20), branded on-air as CW 20, is a television station licensed to Waterbury, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Hartford-licensed Fox affiliate WTIC-TV (channel 61). The two stations share studios on Broad Street in downtown Hartford; WCCT-TV's transmitter is located on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut.
Established in 1953 as WATR-TV, a television station for the Waterbury area, the station changed to a regional independent in 1982, becoming Connecticut's UPN affiliate in 1995 and switching to The WB in 2001. It has been managed by WTIC-TV since 1998.