The television industry has changed dramatically since Bob Ellsworth delivered the news from the Channel 3 studios in the 1950s. iPads have replaced paper scripts, studio lights don’t take forever to warm […]
Channel 3 Over the Years!
Face the State Flashback: Kain’s World
One of Connecticut’s most revered reporters is retiring later this spring. Dan Kain, who’s been a fixture on Channel 3 for a quarter century, is hanging up his journalist’s cap after filing […]
2013 Hartford St. Patrick’s Day Parade
WFSB photographer Mike Fisher grabbing a shot of our team careful not be devoured by the land shark that is a 1965 Buick Electra What a weekend! Members of the Channel 3 […]
Face the State Flashback: Bob Steele at Channel 3
To mark the renaming of Grove Street in downtown Hartford after the legendary broadcaster Bob Steele, we have pulled some vintage film of Steele from his years at Channel 3. While most […]
Happy Belated Birthday, Channel 3!
This past weekend Channel 3 turned 56. On September 21, 1957, your favorite television station went on the air for the first time. Our call letters then were WTIC, and became WFSB […]
Connecticut Losing TV Viewers
We received some unsettling news from Nielsen, the folks who conduct ratings for the television stations. The Hartford/New Haven market remains the 30th biggest television market in the country, but we lost nearly […]
Marking 20 Years at WFSB
For much of May, my good friend and longtime co-anchor Denise D’Ascenzo worked tirelessly on a special report: a celebration of my 20th anniversary here at WFSB. At times, I can’t even […]
Marking a Milestone
This is me back in 1988 learning how to become a reporter. Trying to make the transition from Rick Springfield wannabe to Dan Rather wasn’t easy. Kara calls this my “Chachi” look. […]
