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WFSB Hartford, CT | 2017 Tour of Channel 3 Building | Dennis House & Denise D'Ascenzo | 60th Anniv.

Wielding his smartphone on a selfie stick, WFSB anchor Dennis House walks with his co-anchor Denise D’Ascenzo through the building at 333 Capital Boulevard (3 Denise D'Ascenzo Way since 2020) in Rocky Hill, Connecticut that Channel 3 has occupied since 2007. They are sharing this video on September 21, 2017 on a Facebook Live feed on Mr. House’s public Facebook page as the Meredith Corporation station celebrates its 60th anniversary of signing-on as WTIC-TV. (It became WFSB in 1974.) Along the way, they browse historical photographs on the walls. • A 1962 debate between U.S. Senate candidates Congressman Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. and former governor Abraham Ribicoff, then the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) • WBA welterweight boxing champion Marlon “Magic Man” Starling, a Hartford-native, posing with Laura Soll, WFSB’s director of press, publicity, and community relations, and WFSB photographer Tom Lang circa 1988 • Engineers and other support personnel who have worked behind the cameras over the years • Bob Steele, the overwhelmingly popular daily morning host on WTIC (AM) Radio from 1943 to 1991 who was also the host of “Close-up on Sports” on Channel 3 from 1957 to 1966, conducting the TV station’s inaugural broadcast on September 23, 1957 with the master of ceremonies, Broadway and Hollywood actor Ed Begley, another native of Hartford • The test pattern that aired on Channel 3 in the weeks prior to the inaugural broadcast • President Lyndon B. Johnson campaigning outside Broadcast House, the downtown Hartford home of Channel 3 from 1961 to 2007, on September 28, 1964 • One of the studios at Broadcast House which was located at 3 Constitution Plaza and razed in 2009 Among the people they encounter as they tour the facility from the assignment desk and producer pod in the newsroom to the lobby and to the business offices on the floor above are fellow anchor Mark Zinni; David Rodriguez and his coworker Oscar; Joe Zone, sports director; Tony Meliso, director of broadcast operations; Jamie Calli, senior producer of special projects; Holly Harwood, newsroom assistant; Andrea Almeida, digital promotions producer; Jennifer Lee, reporter; Shawana Perry, assistant news director; Shannon Kane, digital content manager; Frank Glowski, news media manager; Greg Thomas, creative services director; Suzanne Thorburn, administrative assistant; Eric Budney, photographer and editor; and Tracy Furey, executive producer of “Better Connecticut.” The New London bureau chief, Kevin Hogan, recalls how he first appeared on TV in 1959 on the ABC gameshow “Beat the Clock” hosted by Bud Collyer. The tour concludes with a conversation with the cohosts of “Better Connecticut:” meteorologist Scot Haney and Kara Sundlun who is married to Mr. House. Referring to her various co-anchors during her 31-year WFSB tenure as her “television husbands,” Ms. D’Ascenzo sardonically likens herself to Hollywood movie star Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) who was famously married eight times to seven men. Channel 3 people and programs mentioned during the video are former chief meteorologist Hilton Kaderli; “The Hap Richards Show” (1957 to 1974); “The Brad Davis Show” (1959 to 1971); former anchors Pat Sheehan, Don Lark, and Gayle King; the current vice president and general manager, Klarn DePalma; and “PM Magazine” (1978 to 1988). They also pass a poster of the network program “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” which has been on CBS since 2015. This leads Mr. House to recall a similar poster for “The Late Show with David Letterman” (1993 to 2015) and speculate there had been one for “The Ed Sullivan Show” (1948 to 1971). Framed photographs of current on-air personalities include those of Mr. Haney, traffic reporter Nicole Nalepa, reporter Courtney Zieller, reporter Roger Susanin, meteorologist Mike Cameron, chief meteorologist Bruce DePrest, meteorologist Mark Dixon, chief capitol correspondent Susan Raff, reporter Matt McFarland, reporter Patricia Del Rio, reporter David McKay, reporter Eva Zymaris, reporter and meteorologist Melissa Cole, reporter Matthew Campbell, Ms. Sundlun, Mr. Hogan, Mr. Zone, Mr. Zinni, Mr. House, Ms. D’Ascenzo, “Eyewitness News This Morning” hosts Eric Parker and Irene O’Connor, weekend morning anchor Caitlin Nuclo, and anchor Erin Connolly. [NOTE: Channel 3 was originally located in a building adjacent to the Travelers Tower in downtown Hartford, never inside the tower itself. Instead, the Travelers Insurance Company, which owned and operated the station as WTIC-TV from 1957 to 1974, placed it from 1957 to 1961 on the sixth floor of its building at 26 Grove Street (Bob Steele Street since 2013). Built in 1921, the eleven-story office building is situated between the Travelers Tower and Central Row and faces (55-63) Prospect Street. The sixth-floor studios were first built in 1924 for WTIC Radio, Channel 3’s elder sibling until the stations split in 1974, for its launch in 1925.]