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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 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 television|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 television|high definition]]. WCTX's newscasts also made the transition, while ''Connecticut Style'' made the transition in 2011.
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 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 television|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 television|high definition]]. WCTX's newscasts also made the transition, while ''Connecticut Style'' made the transition in 2011.

===Notable current on-air staff===
* [[Gil Simmons]] ([[American Meteorological Society|AMS]] [[American Meteorological Society#Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) Seal|Certified Broadcast Meteorologist]] Seal of Approval; member, [[National Weather Association|NWA]]) - chief seen weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 on WTNH and WCTX) also weekdays at noon

==References==
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'{{Infobox Broadcast | call_letters = WTNH | city = New Haven, Connecticut | station_logo = [[File:News 8 wtnh.png|225px]]<br>[[File:Wtnh bounce.png|225px]] | station_slogan = Who's got your back? News 8 | station_branding = ''Channel 8'' (general)<br>''News 8'' (newscasts) | digital = 10 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])<br>[[Virtual channel|Virtual]]: 8 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]]) | subchannels = 8.1 ABC<br>8.2 [[Bounce TV]] | other_chs = | affiliations = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] | owner = [[LIN Media]]<br>{{small|(sale to [[Media General]] pending)}} | licensee = WTNH Broadcasting, LLC | location = [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]]/[[Hartford, Connecticut]] | country = [[United States]] | founded = August 1947<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/47-OCR/1947-09-01-BC-OCR-Page-0016.pdf "WDEL, WNHC get television permits."] ''[[Broadcasting and Cable|Broadcasting - Telecasting]]''. September 1, 1947, pg. 16.</ref> | airdate = {{start date and age|1948|06|15}} | enddate = | callsign_meaning = '''T'''elevision for '''N'''ew '''H'''aven | former_callsigns = WNHC-TV (1948–1971) | former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:'''<br>6 (VHF, 1948–1953)<br>8 (VHF, 1953–2009) | former_affiliations = [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] (1948–1956)<br>[[CBS]] (1948–1956)<br>[[NBC]] (secondary, 1949–1955) | sister_stations = [[WCTX]] | effective_radiated_power = 20.5 [[kilowatt|kW]] | HAAT = {{convert|342|m|ft|0|abbr=off}} | facility_id = 74109 | coordinates = {{coord|41|25|22.7|N|72|57|4.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}} | licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] | homepage = {{URL|http://www.wtnh.com}} }} '''WTNH''', [[virtual channel]] 8, is an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-[[network affiliate|affiliated]] [[television station]] located in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. The station is owned by [[LIN Media]], as part of a [[Duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]] with the [[MyNetworkTV]]-affiliate [[WCTX]] (channel 59). The two stations share studios on Elm Street in downtown New Haven, and WTNH broadcasts from a transmitter located in [[Hamden, Connecticut]]. ==History== ===Local pioneer=== What today is 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, the owners of WNHC radio (1340 AM, now [[WYBC (AM)|WYBC]]; and 99.1 FM, now [[WPLR]]).<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/48-OCR/1948-06-14-BC-OCR-Page-0058.pdf "WNHC-TV programs to start this week."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', June 14, 1948, pg. 58.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dumonthistory.tv/3.html |title=Channel Three: Stations |last=Ingram |first=Clarke |date = 1999 |website=DuMont Television Network Historical Website |accessdate=25 January 2014 }}</ref> The station broadcast from WNHC radio's building on Chapel Street in downtown New Haven, but with no studio facilities of its own. Without means to produce local programming, WNHC-TV simply rebroadcast the signal of DuMont's [[New York City]] flagship, WABD (now [[WNYW]]).<ref>"TV finds a haven." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', September 20, 1948, pp. 42-47. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/48-OCR/1948-09-20-BC-OCR-Page-0046.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/48-OCR/1948-09-20-BC-OCR-Page-0051.pdf]</ref> In October 1948 the station added [[CBS]] programming to its schedule,<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/48-OCR/1948-10-11-BC-OCR-Page-0020.pdf "WNHC-TV is new CBS-TV affiliate."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', October 11, 1948, pg. 22.</ref> and additional secondary affiliations with [[NBC]] and ABC followed a year later.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/49-OCR/1949-02-14-BC-OCR-Page-0032.pdf "WNHC-TV takes NBC."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', February 14, 1949, pg. 32.</ref><ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/49-OCR/1949-05-23-BC-OCR-Page-0046.pdf "WNHC-TV adds ABC."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 23, 1949, pg. 46.</ref> 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#Broadcasting|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.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/52-OCR/BC-1952-05-19-OCR-Page-0078.pdf "TV coverage; RTMA predicts expansion."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 19, 1952, pg. 78.</ref><ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/54-OCR/1954-01-04-BC-OCR-Page-0062.pdf "WNHC-TV switches from six to eight."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting''. January 4, 1954, pg. 62.</ref> The next year, the FCC combined New Haven and [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]] into a single market. WNHC-TV shared some CBS programming with [[New Britain, Connecticut|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. In 1956, the WNHC stations were bought by [[Triangle Publications]] of [[Philadelphia]].<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/56-OCR/1956-05-28-BC-OCR-Page-0082.pdf "Triangle makes 4th purchase in year, buys WNHC-AM-FM-TV for $5.4 million."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 28, 1956, pg. 82.</ref> 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]]). 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, Connecticut|Waterbury]] until 1966. 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. 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. 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-[[Governor of Pennsylvania|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.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-02-16-BC-OCR-Page-0009.pdf "Capcities buys 9 Triangle outlets."] ''Broadcasting'', February 16, 1970, pg. 9.</ref><ref>"Last minute clearance for Capcities." ''Broadcasting'', March 1, 1971, pp. 19-20. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/71-OCR/1971-03-01-BC-OCR-Page-0019.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/71-OCR/1971-03-01-BC-OCR-Page-0020.pdf]</ref> 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.<ref>"WNHC-AM-FM sold." ''Broadcasting'', April 6, 1970, pp. 9-10. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-04-06-BC-OCR-Page-0009.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-04-06-BC-OCR-Page-0010.pdf]</ref> 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.<ref>"Capcities + ABC." ''Broadcasting'', March 25, 1985, pp. 31-32. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-03-25-OCR-Page-0031.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-03-25-OCR-Page-0032.pdf]</ref> But the merged company was unable to keep WTNH due to a significant signal overlap with ABC's flagship station, [[WABC-TV]] in New York City.<ref>"The other side of the CCC/ABC deal: $1 billion in spin-offs." ''Broadcasting'', April 1, 1985, pp. 43-44. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-04-01-OCR-Page-0043.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-04-01-OCR-Page-0044.pdf]</ref> Like the other major stations in Connecticut, WTNH's city-grade signal reaches [[Fairfield County, Connecticut|Fairfield County]], which is part of the New York City market. It also provides at least grade B coverage to most of [[Long Island]].<ref>"FCC approval of CapCities/ABC deal likely." ''Broadcasting'', March 25, 1985, pp. 33-34. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-03-25-OCR-Page-0033.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-03-25-OCR-Page-0034.pdf]</ref> 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]].<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-07-29-OCR-Page-0030.pdf "ABC/CCC sells four TV's for $485 million; Detroit, Tampa to Scripps Howard."] ''Broadcasting'', July 29, 1985, pg. 30.</ref> During the mid-1980s, the syndicated ''[[Sally (1983 TV series)|Sally Jessy Raphael]]'' talk show originated from the WTNH studios in New Haven, until the show moved to New York City. Cook Inlet sold WTNH to current owner LIN Television in 1994. When a new [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] [[Independent station (North America)|independent station]] in New Haven, 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.<ref>[http://www.lintv.com/news/images/PDFs/news_releases/TVL%20-%20LIN%20TV%20Corp.%20Exploring%20Strategic%20Alternatives%20-%205-18-07.pdf LIN TV Corp. Exploring Strategic Alternatives, LIN TV, May 18, 2007]</ref> On March 21, 2014, [[Media General]] announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including WTNH and WCTX, in a $1.6 billion merger.<ref name=hc-saletomg>{{cite news|last=Harrison|first=Crayton|title=Media General To Buy LIN For $1.6 Billion|url=http://www.courant.com/business/hc-media-general-0322-20140321,0,7421531.story|accessdate=March 22, 2014|newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]]|date=March 21, 2014|agency=[[Bloomberg News]]}}</ref> ==Digital television== ===Digital channels=== The station's digital signal is multiplexed: {| class="wikitable" |- ! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]] ! [[Display resolution|Video]] ! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]] ! [[Program and System Information Protocol#What PSIP does|PSIP Short Name]] ! Programming<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WTNH#station RabbitEars TV Query for WTNH]</ref> |- | 8.1 || [[720p]] || [[16:9]] || WTNH-DT || Main WTNH programming / ABC |- | 8.2 || rowspan="2"|[[480i]] || rowspan="2"|[[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 [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 8, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref>[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations]</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10, using [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]] to display WTNH's [[virtual channel]] as 8 on digital television receivers. ==Cable and satellite availability== During the 1970s and 1980s through CATV, WTNH once had carriage in portions of northeastern New Jersey in Bergen County and much of Long Island east of New York City.<ref>http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/coals7/forms/search/cableSearchNf.cfm</ref> ==News operation== {{unreferenced section|date=May 2012}} [[File:Wtnh news 2010.png|thumb|right|Former news open.]] WTNH presently broadcasts 28½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4½ hours on weekdays and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition to its main studios, WTNH operates a [[New London, Connecticut|New London]] Bureau in ''[[The New London Day]]'' newsroom on Eugene O'Neill Drive and a Hartford 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. 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 to the ''NewsChannel'' title 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. The two stations have spent the last decade trading the runner-up spot. Historically, WTNH's ratings for news and local programming are far higher in [[Nielsen ratings|Nielsen]]'s "Metro B" area ([[New Haven County, Connecticut|New Haven County]]) than "Metro A" ([[Hartford County, Connecticut|Hartford County]]). 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 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 [[Connecticut Route 15|CT 15]]/[[Merritt Parkway]] to serve commuters heading towards New York 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 television networks|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 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 television|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 television|high definition]]. WCTX's newscasts also made the transition, while ''Connecticut Style'' made the transition in 2011. ===Notable current on-air staff=== * [[Gil Simmons]] ([[American Meteorological Society|AMS]] [[American Meteorological Society#Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) Seal|Certified Broadcast Meteorologist]] Seal of Approval; member, [[National Weather Association|NWA]]) - chief seen weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 on WTNH and WCTX) also weekdays at noon ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.wtnh.com/ WTNH "News 8"] * [http://mobilewtnh.com/ WTNH mobile] * [http://www.myzone.tv WCTX "My TV 9"] * {{TVQ|WTNH}} {{Hartford/New Haven TV}} {{Springfield MA TV}} {{ABC New England}} {{LIN TV}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wtnh}} [[Category:Television stations in Connecticut]] [[Category:Television stations in New Haven, Connecticut]] [[Category:ABC network affiliates]] [[Category:Channel 10 digital TV stations in the United States]] [[Category:Channel 8 virtual TV stations in the United States]] [[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1948]]'
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'{{Infobox Broadcast | call_letters = WTNH | city = New Haven, Connecticut | station_logo = [[File:News 8 wtnh.png|225px]]<br>[[File:Wtnh bounce.png|225px]] | station_slogan = Who's got your back? News 8 | station_branding = ''Channel 8'' (general)<br>''News 8'' (newscasts) | digital = 10 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])<br>[[Virtual channel|Virtual]]: 8 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]]) | subchannels = 8.1 ABC<br>8.2 [[Bounce TV]] | other_chs = | affiliations = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] | owner = [[LIN Media]]<br>{{small|(sale to [[Media General]] pending)}} | licensee = WTNH Broadcasting, LLC | location = [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]]/[[Hartford, Connecticut]] | country = [[United States]] | founded = August 1947<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/47-OCR/1947-09-01-BC-OCR-Page-0016.pdf "WDEL, WNHC get television permits."] ''[[Broadcasting and Cable|Broadcasting - Telecasting]]''. September 1, 1947, pg. 16.</ref> | airdate = {{start date and age|1948|06|15}} | enddate = | callsign_meaning = '''T'''elevision for '''N'''ew '''H'''aven | former_callsigns = WNHC-TV (1948–1971) | former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:'''<br>6 (VHF, 1948–1953)<br>8 (VHF, 1953–2009) | former_affiliations = [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] (1948–1956)<br>[[CBS]] (1948–1956)<br>[[NBC]] (secondary, 1949–1955) | sister_stations = [[WCTX]] | effective_radiated_power = 20.5 [[kilowatt|kW]] | HAAT = {{convert|342|m|ft|0|abbr=off}} | facility_id = 74109 | coordinates = {{coord|41|25|22.7|N|72|57|4.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}} | licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] | homepage = {{URL|http://www.wtnh.com}} }} '''WTNH''', [[virtual channel]] 8, is an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-[[network affiliate|affiliated]] [[television station]] located in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. The station is owned by [[LIN Media]], as part of a [[Duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]] with the [[MyNetworkTV]]-affiliate [[WCTX]] (channel 59). The two stations share studios on Elm Street in downtown New Haven, and WTNH broadcasts from a transmitter located in [[Hamden, Connecticut]]. ==History== ===Local pioneer=== What today is 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, the owners of WNHC radio (1340 AM, now [[WYBC (AM)|WYBC]]; and 99.1 FM, now [[WPLR]]).<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/48-OCR/1948-06-14-BC-OCR-Page-0058.pdf "WNHC-TV programs to start this week."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', June 14, 1948, pg. 58.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dumonthistory.tv/3.html |title=Channel Three: Stations |last=Ingram |first=Clarke |date = 1999 |website=DuMont Television Network Historical Website |accessdate=25 January 2014 }}</ref> The station broadcast from WNHC radio's building on Chapel Street in downtown New Haven, but with no studio facilities of its own. Without means to produce local programming, WNHC-TV simply rebroadcast the signal of DuMont's [[New York City]] flagship, WABD (now [[WNYW]]).<ref>"TV finds a haven." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', September 20, 1948, pp. 42-47. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/48-OCR/1948-09-20-BC-OCR-Page-0046.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/48-OCR/1948-09-20-BC-OCR-Page-0051.pdf]</ref> In October 1948 the station added [[CBS]] programming to its schedule,<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/48-OCR/1948-10-11-BC-OCR-Page-0020.pdf "WNHC-TV is new CBS-TV affiliate."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', October 11, 1948, pg. 22.</ref> and additional secondary affiliations with [[NBC]] and ABC followed a year later.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/49-OCR/1949-02-14-BC-OCR-Page-0032.pdf "WNHC-TV takes NBC."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', February 14, 1949, pg. 32.</ref><ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/49-OCR/1949-05-23-BC-OCR-Page-0046.pdf "WNHC-TV adds ABC."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 23, 1949, pg. 46.</ref> 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#Broadcasting|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.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/52-OCR/BC-1952-05-19-OCR-Page-0078.pdf "TV coverage; RTMA predicts expansion."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 19, 1952, pg. 78.</ref><ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/54-OCR/1954-01-04-BC-OCR-Page-0062.pdf "WNHC-TV switches from six to eight."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting''. January 4, 1954, pg. 62.</ref> The next year, the FCC combined New Haven and [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]] into a single market. WNHC-TV shared some CBS programming with [[New Britain, Connecticut|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. In 1956, the WNHC stations were bought by [[Triangle Publications]] of [[Philadelphia]].<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/56-OCR/1956-05-28-BC-OCR-Page-0082.pdf "Triangle makes 4th purchase in year, buys WNHC-AM-FM-TV for $5.4 million."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 28, 1956, pg. 82.</ref> 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]]). 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, Connecticut|Waterbury]] until 1966. 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. 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. 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-[[Governor of Pennsylvania|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.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-02-16-BC-OCR-Page-0009.pdf "Capcities buys 9 Triangle outlets."] ''Broadcasting'', February 16, 1970, pg. 9.</ref><ref>"Last minute clearance for Capcities." ''Broadcasting'', March 1, 1971, pp. 19-20. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/71-OCR/1971-03-01-BC-OCR-Page-0019.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/71-OCR/1971-03-01-BC-OCR-Page-0020.pdf]</ref> 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.<ref>"WNHC-AM-FM sold." ''Broadcasting'', April 6, 1970, pp. 9-10. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-04-06-BC-OCR-Page-0009.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-04-06-BC-OCR-Page-0010.pdf]</ref> 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.<ref>"Capcities + ABC." ''Broadcasting'', March 25, 1985, pp. 31-32. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-03-25-OCR-Page-0031.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-03-25-OCR-Page-0032.pdf]</ref> But the merged company was unable to keep WTNH due to a significant signal overlap with ABC's flagship station, [[WABC-TV]] in New York City.<ref>"The other side of the CCC/ABC deal: $1 billion in spin-offs." ''Broadcasting'', April 1, 1985, pp. 43-44. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-04-01-OCR-Page-0043.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-04-01-OCR-Page-0044.pdf]</ref> Like the other major stations in Connecticut, WTNH's city-grade signal reaches [[Fairfield County, Connecticut|Fairfield County]], which is part of the New York City market. It also provides at least grade B coverage to most of [[Long Island]].<ref>"FCC approval of CapCities/ABC deal likely." ''Broadcasting'', March 25, 1985, pp. 33-34. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-03-25-OCR-Page-0033.pdf] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-03-25-OCR-Page-0034.pdf]</ref> 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]].<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-07-29-OCR-Page-0030.pdf "ABC/CCC sells four TV's for $485 million; Detroit, Tampa to Scripps Howard."] ''Broadcasting'', July 29, 1985, pg. 30.</ref> During the mid-1980s, the syndicated ''[[Sally (1983 TV series)|Sally Jessy Raphael]]'' talk show originated from the WTNH studios in New Haven, until the show moved to New York City. Cook Inlet sold WTNH to current owner LIN Television in 1994. When a new [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] [[Independent station (North America)|independent station]] in New Haven, 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.<ref>[http://www.lintv.com/news/images/PDFs/news_releases/TVL%20-%20LIN%20TV%20Corp.%20Exploring%20Strategic%20Alternatives%20-%205-18-07.pdf LIN TV Corp. Exploring Strategic Alternatives, LIN TV, May 18, 2007]</ref> On March 21, 2014, [[Media General]] announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including WTNH and WCTX, in a $1.6 billion merger.<ref name=hc-saletomg>{{cite news|last=Harrison|first=Crayton|title=Media General To Buy LIN For $1.6 Billion|url=http://www.courant.com/business/hc-media-general-0322-20140321,0,7421531.story|accessdate=March 22, 2014|newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]]|date=March 21, 2014|agency=[[Bloomberg News]]}}</ref> ==Digital television== ===Digital channels=== The station's digital signal is multiplexed: {| class="wikitable" |- ! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]] ! [[Display resolution|Video]] ! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]] ! [[Program and System Information Protocol#What PSIP does|PSIP Short Name]] ! Programming<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WTNH#station RabbitEars TV Query for WTNH]</ref> |- | 8.1 || [[720p]] || [[16:9]] || WTNH-DT || Main WTNH programming / ABC |- | 8.2 || rowspan="2"|[[480i]] || rowspan="2"|[[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 [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 8, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref>[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations]</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10, using [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]] to display WTNH's [[virtual channel]] as 8 on digital television receivers. ==Cable and satellite availability== During the 1970s and 1980s through CATV, WTNH once had carriage in portions of northeastern New Jersey in Bergen County and much of Long Island east of New York City.<ref>http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/coals7/forms/search/cableSearchNf.cfm</ref> ==News operation== {{unreferenced section|date=May 2012}} [[File:Wtnh news 2010.png|thumb|right|Former news open.]] WTNH presently broadcasts 28½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4½ hours on weekdays and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition to its main studios, WTNH operates a [[New London, Connecticut|New London]] Bureau in ''[[The New London Day]]'' newsroom on Eugene O'Neill Drive and a Hartford 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. 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 to the ''NewsChannel'' title 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. The two stations have spent the last decade trading the runner-up spot. Historically, WTNH's ratings for news and local programming are far higher in [[Nielsen ratings|Nielsen]]'s "Metro B" area ([[New Haven County, Connecticut|New Haven County]]) than "Metro A" ([[Hartford County, Connecticut|Hartford County]]). 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 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 [[Connecticut Route 15|CT 15]]/[[Merritt Parkway]] to serve commuters heading towards New York 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 television networks|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 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 television|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 television|high definition]]. WCTX's newscasts also made the transition, while ''Connecticut Style'' made the transition in 2011. ==External links== * [http://www.wtnh.com/ WTNH "News 8"] * [http://mobilewtnh.com/ WTNH mobile] * [http://www.myzone.tv WCTX "My TV 9"] * {{TVQ|WTNH}} {{Hartford/New Haven TV}} {{Springfield MA TV}} {{ABC New England}} {{LIN TV}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wtnh}} [[Category:Television stations in Connecticut]] [[Category:Television stations in New Haven, Connecticut]] [[Category:ABC network affiliates]] [[Category:Channel 10 digital TV stations in the United States]] [[Category:Channel 8 virtual TV stations in the United States]] [[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1948]]'
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