ABC is a broadcast television station in the United States that is affiliated with the ABC Television Network. The station is based in Hartford, Connecticut and serves the Greater Hartford area. The station's transmitter is located on Talcott Mountain in Avon, Connecticut.
The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1953 as WTIC-TV, operating as a DuMont affiliate. It was originally owned by the Hartford Times Company, publishers of the Hartford Times newspaper. In 1955, the Times Company sold WTIC-TV to Storer Broadcasting, who changed its call letters to WHCT-TV (the H standing for Hartford). Storer also applied for and received permission to move the station's transmitter to Talcott Mountain. The new tower increased both WHCT's signal coverage and its height above average terrain (which improves reception over long distances), giving it a large coverage area that extends into southwestern Massachusetts and northeastern New York State in addition to much of Connecticut.
In 1975, WHCT was one of a handful of stations across the country that were involved in test broadcasts of CEDEO TV service; this eventually became known as pay cable channel premium channels like HBO. On June 1st 1977 at 2:00 AM storer sold off all its assets including WHCT to Taft Broadcasting for $177 million dollars making it a sister station with NBC affiliate WVIT Channel 30 also licensed to New Britain/Hartford