WTIC-TV

WTIC-TV, virtual channel 61 (UHF digital channel 31), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Hartford, Connecticut. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting division of the Tribune Media Company. WTIC is part of a duopoly with the CW-affiliate WCCT-TV (channel 20). Both stations share facilities with the Hartford Courant newspaper in downtown Hartford and WTIC's transmitter is located on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

WTIC-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31, using PSIP to display WTIC-TV's virtual channel as 61 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

WTIC

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WTIC (AM)

WTIC (1080 AM) is a 50,000-watt radio station operating out of Hartford, Connecticut, broadcasting news and talk radio. Its signal, located at 1080 kHz, can be picked up throughout southern New England by day and over much of the eastern half of the United States and Canada by night. It is currently operated by CBS Radio. Its transmitter is located in Avon, Connecticut, and has studios located at 10 Executive Drive, all in Farmington, Connecticut.

WTIC, a class A station on a clear channel, is known for its historic time tone, which is a broadcast of the Morse code letter "V" every hour on the hour since 1943. This makes it one of the oldest continuously broadcasting radio time tones in the world. WTIC employs a GPS master clock system that fires the custom-built time-tone generator shortly before the top of the hour, timed such that the final tone of the sequence occurs precisely on the hour (Even though everything else heard on the station is on a 10-second delay), and listeners have been setting their watches to WTIC for many years. The notes of the sequence were pitched to mimic the famous opening sequence of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose "short-short-short-long" rhythm matches that of the Morse code letter "V". The Morse code letter "V" for Victory was selected during the height of WWII.