WTHT (Connecticut)

Its studios on 555 Asylum Street were converted into television facilities for WGTH-TV (channel 18), which debuted later that year.

[2] WTHT broadcast on 1200 kHz with 100 watts during daylight hours only, and received approval in principle for nighttime broadcasting in 1936 when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to dismiss an application for an outlet at Newport, Rhode Island, for failure to construct.

This occurred after the station was off the air for a week with technical issues but only one listener wrote to complain of the silence; the newspaper told the FCC, "We were consistently unable to demonstrate any sizable audience on FM.

[17] The second group to apply was WONS, owned by the General Tele-Radio Corporation and the city's Mutual Broadcasting System and Yankee Network outlet.

[18] By September 1953, the FCC was ready to set up the hearings to determine winning applicants for the two Hartford allotments.

[26] The FCC issued a decision favoring Deme in July 1957,[27] and the new station, WINF, began broadcasting on May 18, 1958.