Three students won first place in WTIC-TV's annual student news competition, in May 2008, for a television feature film.
Some programming (such as older sitcoms), however, was returned to their syndication distributors and wound up first on WTWS (channel 26, now WHPX-TV) and then WTVU (channel 59, now WCTX).
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The football issue is not typically as stark because the New York Giants and New England Patriots play in separate conferences, each with their own network television deals, so there is little overlap.
Dibble's father, Walt Dibble, was a longtime radio news director at WDRC and later WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut.
After several years of a heated CHR war with rival station "96 TIC-FM", which included longtime WTIC morning-show host Gary Craig briefly moving to WKSS, "95.7 Kiss-FM" eventually won the ratings battle, forcing WTIC to flip formats to Adult Top 40.