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History
CT Radio History Timeline 1990 - 2005
1991 Michael Harrison, who in 1990 founded Talkers magazine, the bible of talk radio today, hosts talk show on WTIC 1080 Hartford, helping WTIC transform from music station to talk-news station.
CT Radio History Timeline 1970 - 1989
1971 WPLR 99.1 New Haven (formally WNLC-FM) becomes first progressive rock FM station in southern Connecticut.
1972 First cable television subscriber in Connecticut is hooked up, in Danbury.
CT Radio History Timeline 1950 - 1959
1950 WHAY 910 New Britain signs on, and is then acquired by DeDominicis family and has an all-Italian format most of the day during the 1950s and 1960s (now WLAT).
1950s Putnam, Willimantic, Groton, Old Saybrook, Manchester and Ansonia all get their own radio stations.
CT Radio History Timeline
Reprinted by permission from the Connecticut Broadcaster's Association
Written by Michael Collins © ® 2005
WWUH Station History
Note: A more comprehensive station history can be found on the WWUH Radio History site with hundreds of photos!
compiled by John Ramsey, General Manager/Chief Engineer