NBC Connecticut Celebrates 70th Anniversary

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NBC Connecticut went on the air for the first time on Friday, February 13, 1953 as WKNB-TV, New England’s first UHF station. Station manager Peter B. Kenny looks on as station president Julian Gross throws the switch.

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NBC Connecticut’s first antenna going up.

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Portable film development in 1955. At that time, NBC Connecticut was known as WNBC-TV before those call letters were later assigned to NBC’s flagship station in New York City.

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Community Chest Telethon held in the NBC Connecticut studio in 1954.

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Phil Hale on the phone and on set in the late 1950s.

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The WHNB-TV Studio in 1967 with Interstate 84 in the foreground.

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The station acquired one of the first commercial tape decks in 1957. The tape was 2-inches wide and was made by RCA.

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Various Channel 30 personalities from the 50s and 60s.

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Ralph Kanna doing a live commercial during a kids show in the 1950s.

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Michael Landon from the hit NBC show “Bonanza” visits the station in 1959. Landon went on to star in

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An ad the station took out in TIME Magazine in 1983 featuring 44 of our amazing employees.

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NBC Connecticut political reporter was the first to congratulate and interview Sen. Joseph Lieberman after he was selected by Al Gore to be his running mate in 2000.

NBC Connecticut Celebrates 70th Anniversary

Published February 10, 2023 • Updated on February 17, 2023 at 2:29 pm

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