It is home to WWLP-TV's transmitting site atop Provin Mountain (their studio has since moved to Chicopee).
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The company was founded by William Lowell Putnam III, who launched the company's first television station, WWLP, on March 17, 1953.
Owned by the LIN Media, WFXQ is sister to NBC affiliate WWLP who it serves as a full-time repeater of, and the two share studios at Broadcast Center in the Sandy Hill section of Chicopee next to the I-391/MA 116 interchange.
As part of the deal, Springfield Television, the owner of fellow NBC affiliate WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts, was to have held a one-third stake in channel 30; it abandoned this stake before the deal's completion after concerns arose over their overlapping coverage areas, but continued to hold an option to reacquire it for some time afterward.