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WTNH went on the air June 15, 1948 as WNHC-TV Channel 6. It was the first television station in all of Southern New England. It signed on within days of WBZ-TV Channel 4 in Boston. WNHC was the first TV service for Hartford, Springfield, the Hamptons and Eastern Long Island. 

WNHC-TV moved to Channel 8 on January 1, 1954. The call letters became WTNH in 1971.

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Old Saybrook police chief announces retirement amid investigation

Golf season tees off as courses open across Connecticut

Pickleville CT brings three indoor pickleball courts to New Haven

Yale researchers use lupus antibody to possibly treat glioblastoma

Last flood-damaged bridge reopens in Oxford

Forensic science students get lesson from crime techs with Waterbury police

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NEWS 8 NOW | A couple of storms lined up this week

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