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WTNH
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WTNH
New Haven
/
Hartford, Connecticut
United States
City
New Haven, Connecticut
Branding
News 8
(general)
News 8
(newscasts)
Slogan
Who's got your back? News 8
Channels
Digital
: 10 (
VHF
)
Virtual
: 8 (
PSIP
)
Subchannels
8.1 ABC
8.2
Bounce TV
Affiliations
ABC
Owner
Media General
(sale to
Nexstar Broadcasting Group
pending)
(WTNH Broadcasting, LLC)
Founded
August 1947
[1]
First air date
June 15, 1948
; 68 years ago
Call letters' meaning
T
elevision
N
ew
H
aven
Sister station(s)
WCTX
Former callsigns
WNHC-TV (1948–1971)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
6 (VHF, 1948–1953)
8 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Former affiliations
Primary
:
DuMont
(1948–1956)
CBS
(1948–1956)
Secondary
:
NBC
(1949–1955)
The WB
(January–April 1995)
Transmitter power
20.5
kW
Height
342 metres (1,122 feet)
Facility ID
74109
Transmitter coordinates
41°25′22.7″N
72°57′4.1″W
Licensing authority
FCC
Public license information:
Profile
CDBS
Website
wtnh
.com
WTNH
,
virtual channel
8, is an
ABC
-
affiliated
television station
located in
New Haven, Connecticut
. The station is owned by
Media General
, as part of a
duopoly
with
MyNetworkTV
-affiliate
WCTX
(channel 59). The two stations share studios on 8 Elm Street in downtown
New Haven, Connecticut
and WTNH broadcasts from a transmitter located in
Hamden, Connecticut
.
History
Local pioneer
WTNH first went on the air on June 15, 1948, as
WNHC-TV
, originally broadcasting on channel 6. The station was founded by the Elm City Broadcasting Corporation, owners of WNHC radio (1340 AM, now
WYBC
; and 99.1 FM, now
WPLR
).
[2]
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).
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.
[3]
The station broadcast from WNHC radio's building on Chapel Street in downtown
New Haven, Connecticut
. However, with no studio facilities of its own, it could not produce local programming. For a time, WNHC-TV simply rebroadcast the signal of DuMont's
N.Y. City
flagship, WABD (now
WNYW
).
[4]
In October 1948 the station added
CBS
programming to its schedule,
[5]
and additional secondary affiliations with
NBC
and ABC followed a year later.
[6]
[7]
The station was the first station in the country to use videotape for local programming and one of the first to broadcast in color.
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. As a result, WNHC-TV changed frequencies and moved to channel 8 in December 1953.
[8]
[9]
The next year, the FCC collapsed
New Haven, Connecticut
and
Hartford, Connecticut
into a single market. WNHC-TV shared some CBS programming with
New Britain, Connecticut
WKNB-TV (channel 30, now
WVIT
) until 1955, since WKNB's signal was not strong enough to cover
New Haven, Connecticut
at the time.
In 1956, the WNHC stations were bought by
Triangle Publications
of
Philadelphia
.
[10]
Also that same year, WNHC-TV lost its CBS affiliation when that network purchased WGTH-TV in
Hartford, Connecticut
(channel 18, later WHCT and now
WUVN
). This left channel 8 as a sole ABC affiliate, although it shared ABC programming with WATR-TV (channel 20, now
WCCT-TV
) in nearby
Waterbury, Connecticut
until 1966.
Until the original WTIC-TV (channel 3, now
WFSB
) signed on from
Hartford, Connecticut
in September 1957, WNHC-TV was the only station on the VHF dial in
Connecticut
. Many viewers northeast of
Hartford, Connecticut
used outdoor antennas to get spotty reception of CBS and NBC programs from
Boston, Massachusettes
and those southwest of
Hartford, Connecticut
with outdoor TV antennas got equally spotty reception from their respective
New York
flagship stations. By contrast, most of
Connecticut
got a clear picture and pitch-perfect sound from channel 8.
Later years
Triangle was forced to sell its broadcast outlets in 1970 after then-
Pennsylvania Governor
Milton J. Shapp
complained the company had used its
Pennsylvania
stations in a smear campaign against him. The WNHC stations were among the first batch to be sold, going to
Capital Cities Communications
, along with sister stations in
Philadelphia
and
Fresno, California
in a deal finalized in 1971.
[11]
[12]
However, Capital Cities could not keep the radio stations because of the FCC's then-restrictions on ownership, resulting in WNHC-AM-FM being spun off to separate third parties.
[13]
WNHC-TV changed its call letters to the current
WTNH-TV
in April 1971, not long after Capital Cities officially took over (the station dropped the
-TV
suffix from its calls in 1985, but continued to call itself "WTNH-TV" on-air well into the 1990s).
Capital Cities bought ABC in 1986 in a deal that stunned the broadcast industry.
[14]
But the merged company was unable to keep WTNH due to a significant signal overlap with ABC's flagship station,
WABC-TV
in
N.Y. City
[15]
Like the other major stations in
Connecticut
, WTNH's city-grade signal reaches
Fairfield County, Connecticut
, which is part of the
N.Y. City
market. It also provides at least grade B coverage to most of
Long Island
.
[16]
At the time, the FCC normally did not allow common ownership of two stations with overlapping coverage areas, and would not even consider granting a waiver for a city-grade overlap (the FCC began allowing common ownership of two stations with overlapping coverage areas in 2000). As a result, WTNH was spun off to Cook Inlet Television Partners, a subsidiary of
Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
, an
Alaska Native Regional Corporation
.
[17]
During the mid-1980s, the syndicated
Sally Jessy Raphael
talk show originated from the WTNH studios in New Haven, until the show moved to
N.Y. City
later in the decade.
Cook Inlet sold WTNH to
LIN Television
in 1994. When a new
UHF
independent station
in
New Haven, Connecticut
WTVU (channel 59, now WCTX) signed on in 1995, WTNH began operating the station through a
local marketing agreement
(LMA). In 2001, LIN TV bought WCTX outright. On May 18, 2007, the company announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could have resulted in the sale of the company.
[18]
On March 21, 2014,
Media General
announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including WTNH and WCTX, in a .6 billion merger.
[19]
The merger was completed on December 19.
[20]
On September 8, 2015, Media General announced that it would acquire the
Meredith Corporation
for .4 billion, with the combined group to be renamed Meredith Media General if the sale had been finalized. Because Meredith already owns WFSB, and the two stations rank among the four highest-rated stations in the
Hartford, Connecticut
&
New Haven, Connecticut
market in total day viewership, the companies would have been required to sell either WTNH or WFSB to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as recent changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations that restrict
sharing agreements
; WCTX would have been the only one of the three stations affected by the merger that could legally be acquired by Meredith Media General, as its total day viewership ranks below the top-four ratings threshold.
[21]
[22]
[23]
[24]
However, on January 27, 2016,
Nexstar Broadcasting Group
announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Media General, resulting in the termination of Meredith's acquisition by Media General.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel
Video
Aspect
PSIP Short Name
Programming
[25]
8.1
720p
16:9
WTNH-DT
Main WTNH programming / ABC
8.2
480i
4:3
Bounce
Bounce TV
8.3
WTNHSD
Standard-definition simulcast of 8.1
Analog-to-digital conversion
WTNH shut down its analog signal, over
VHF
channel 8, on June 12, 2009, as part of the
federally mandated transition from analog to digital television
.
[26]
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10, using
PSIP
to display WTNH's
virtual channel
as 8 on digital television receivers.
Cable and satellite availability
During the 1970s and 1980s, WTNH once had carriage in portions of northeastern New Jersey in Bergen County and much of
Long Island, New York
east of
N.Y. City
[27]
News operation
WTNH presently broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours on weekdays and 3 1/2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition to its main studios, WTNH operates a
New London, Connecticut
Bureau in
The New London Day
newsroom on Eugene O'Neill Drive and a
Hartford, Connecticut
Bureau on Columbus Boulevard. Along with regional
NOAA
National Weather Service
radar data, the station operates its own
weather radar
near its transmitter site in
Hamden, Connecticut
. Together, these two sources are called "SkyMax Doppler Network". This can be seen via live video with audio from the National Weather Service on WTNH's website.
For over a quarter century, the station used the
Action News
format made famous at former
Philadelphia
sister station WFIL-TV (now
WPVI-TV
), even using the same "
Move Closer to Your World
" music and graphics packages as WPVI. It rebranded as
NewsChannel 8
in 1996.
For most of the last half-century, WTNH has been a distant runner-up in the market to dominant WFSB. However, in recent times, it has had to fend off a spirited challenge from WVIT. Since the turn of the millennium, the two stations have regularly traded the runner-up spot. Historically, WTNH's ratings for news and local programming are far higher in
Nielsen
's "Metro B" area (
New Haven County, Connecticut
) than "Metro A" (
Hartford County, Connecticut
). However, this trend does not hold true for network programming. Of all the stations in
Connecticut
with news operations, WTNH provides the most coverage of
Fairfield County, Connecticut
and the
Long Island Sound
shoreline. On weekdays, there is also a focus on traffic reports on [[Interstate 95 in
Connecticut
|I-95]]/
Connecticut Turnpike
and
CT 15
/
Merritt Parkway
to serve commuters heading towards
N.Y. City
Since 2000, WTNH has been producing a nightly prime time newscast at 10 on WBNE/WCTX. It has competed right from the start with
WTIC-TV
's 10 p.m. broadcast, which established itself as a viewer favorite since it debuted in 1989. As of the February 2008 ratings period, WTIC's weeknight newscast is actually the most watched 10 or broadcast in the market even gathering more viewership than the 11 p.m. newscasts on Connecticut's
Big Three stations
. In 2005, WCTX began simulcasting the second hour of WTNH's weekday morning show (at 6) followed by a third hour from 7 to 8 a.m. that was seen exclusively on WCTX, except for simulcast
Good Morning America
cut-ins on WTNH. The second hour was eventually dropped for an unknown reason. The 7 a.m. hour received competition on March 3, 2008 when WTIC launched its own weekday morning show.
Its weekday noon newscast was originally an hour long, but was reduced to 30 minutes on February 23, 2009 when a new lifestyle/entertainment magazine show known as
Connecticut Style
was added at 12:30 p.m. On January 12, 2015, CT Style was added at 9:00am–10:00am and Weekday noon newscast become an hour long. On April 26, 2010, WTNH re-branded from
News Channel 8
to
News 8
. In addition, WTNH began broadcasting its newscasts in
16:9
widescreen
enhanced definition
, with WCTX's newscasts and
Connecticut Style
being included in the upgrade. On October 4, 2010, WTNH became the third station in the market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
high definition
. WCTX's newscasts also made the transition, while
Connecticut Style
made the transition in 2011.
References
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"WDEL, WNHC get television permits."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
. September 1, 1947, pg. 16.
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"WNHC-TV programs to start this week."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
, June 14, 1948, pg. 58.
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Ingram, Clarke (1999).
"Channel Three: Stations"
.
DuMont Television Network Historical Website
. Retrieved
25 January
2014
.
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"TV finds a haven."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
, September 20, 1948, pp. 42-47.
[1]
[2]
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"WNHC-TV is new CBS-TV affiliate."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
, October 11, 1948, pg. 22.
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"WNHC-TV takes NBC."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
, February 14, 1949, pg. 32.
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"WNHC-TV adds ABC."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
, May 23, 1949, pg. 46.
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"TV coverage; RTMA predicts expansion."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
, May 19, 1952, pg. 78.
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"WNHC-TV switches from six to eight."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
. January 4, 1954, pg. 62.
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"Triangle makes 4th purchase in year, buys WNHC-AM-FM-TV for .4 million."
Broadcasting - Telecasting
, May 28, 1956, pg. 82.
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"Capcities buys 9 Triangle outlets."
Broadcasting
, February 16, 1970, pg. 9.
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"Last minute clearance for Capcities."
Broadcasting
, March 1, 1971, pp. 19-20.
[3]
[4]
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"WNHC-AM-FM sold."
Broadcasting
, April 6, 1970, pp. 9-10.
[5]
[6]
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"Capcities + ABC."
Broadcasting
, March 25, 1985, pp. 31-32.
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[8]
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"The other side of the CCC/ABC deal: billion in spin-offs."
Broadcasting
, April 1, 1985, pp. 43-44.
[9]
[10]
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"FCC approval of CapCities/ABC deal likely."
Broadcasting
, March 25, 1985, pp. 33-34.
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[12]
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"ABC/CCC sells four TV's for 5 million; Detroit, Tampa to Scripps Howard."
Broadcasting
, July 29, 1985, pg. 30.
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LIN TV Corp. Exploring Strategic Alternatives, LIN TV, May 18, 2007
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Harrison, Crayton (March 21, 2014).
"Media General To Buy LIN For .6 Billion"
.
Hartford Courant
.
Bloomberg News
. Retrieved
March 22,
2014
.
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Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media
, Press Release,
Media General
, Retrieved 19 December 2014
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"Media General Acquiring Meredith For 2.4 Billion"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media. September 8, 2015.
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Cynthia Littleton (September 8, 2015).
"TV Station Mega Merger: Media General Sets .4 Billion Acquisition of Meredith Corp."
.
Variety
.
Penske Media Corporation
. Retrieved
September 9,
2015
.
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"Media Merger Means WFSB Or WTNH Sale Likely"
.
Hartford Courant
.
Tribune Publisher
.
Associated Press
. September 8, 2015
. Retrieved
September 9,
2015
.
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Luther Turmelle (September 8, 2015).
"Media General-Meredith deal means either WTNH or WFSB must be sold"
.
New Haven Register
.
Journal Register Company
. Retrieved
September 9,
2015
.
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