NBSN-TV

NBSN-TV is a television station in New Britain, Connecticut that broadcasts all programming from the RCT network. This channel is owned by the local owner of Satellite Network, with affiliated as RCT since April 2022.
== History ==
=== January-July 1947; Experimental phase ===
In 1947, the first local station in Connecticut was Central Carlton Media, NBSN-TV, which piloted broadcast experimentally on January 4th. NBSN-TV started its broadcast by hitching a ride on channel 1 with 5 hours of broadcast filled with information and a bit of riddles for the channel. Although NBSN-TV can start this phased experimental broadcast well, but basically, NBSN-TV originates from New York transmitting its broadcasts to various capital cities in New York and parts of New Britain, Connecticut. This is a clear digression with Central Carlton's vision and mission, that NBSN-TV will only be a Connecticut station (which proved to be incompatible with its vision and mission, causing controversy and debate over this channel).
=== July 1947-1953; NBSN-TV acquisition by NBC and 100% Connecticut ===
In July 1947, NBSN-TV was indirectly sold by Central Carlton. When it came to being sold to American TV, both CBS and ABC were not interested because they were more than comfortable with CNM-TV and ERTV. So after looking for NBC to offer him the channel, NBC was interested in the channel. NBC began wanting a one-of-a-kind local station in Connecticut, a place it hadn't had in years. Central Carlton later agreed to trade the channel to NBC, with their old radio assets also being sold for the launch of NBSN-AM. Sales closed in November 1947, with NBSN-TV officially becoming a wholly owned NBC station while continuing its phased experiment until launch.
Shortly after NBC became interested in NBSN-TV, still in July 1947 when it gained control of NBSN-TV, NBC decided to move its broadcast center to New Britain, Connecticut to suit it as a Connecticut television station and to eliminate the station's confusion with their existing New York channel, WNBC-TV. In February 1948, NBSN-TV was granted a channel 10 license by the FCC, and officially launched on March 1, 1948 as an NBC affiliate in the Connecticut region. The broadcast itself is 12 hours long containing entertainment and news programs from NBC with occasional local news from NBSN-TV, with the remaining 12 hours being used by the WNBC-TV cable repeater, formerly known as WNBT-TV. In 1950, NBSN-TV became the station in Connecticut with the most viewers at the time.
=== 1953-1963; Merged with WVIT and sold to Group W ===
In February 1953, NBSN-TV gradually ended its self-produced production, with news productions being phased out in favor of news programs provided by WKNB-TV, the station in the same place and affiliated with NBC, now known as WVIT. In April 1953, NBSN-TV officially ended all feeds from NBC altogether, when NBC merged them with feeds from WKNB-TV. However, NBC (also including WKNB-TV) chose to keep the callsign name NBSN-TV, but only changed its feed from pure NBC to feed from the cable service station WKNB-TV.
However, it actually makes NBSN-TV look like it's no longer a owned and operated NBC station, considering that this WVIT feed is used on NBSN-TV. What made him believe that NBSN-TV was no longer an O&O station of NBC was when in March 1957, the three companies PBN Corporation, NBS America Network (before having their own company), and Star TV America fought over ownership of NBSN-TV. Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, owner of two NBC stations at the time namely KYW-TV (now referred to as WKYC-TV, then reused in Philadelphia since 1965) and WBZ-TV, were interested in the NBSN-TV channel in Connecticut. Of all the participants who applied for a license to acquire NBSN-TV by the FCC, only Group W was granted permission to acquire NBSN-TV in June 1957, after getting the most votes in the acquisition in May 1957.
NBC, which had acquired WPTZ Television in Philadelphia and KYW radio from Group W in 1956, then entered into an agreement to immediately trade NBSN-TV, with its radio NBSN-AM, to Group W in July 1957. In return, NBC got a station from Group W called CJTN-TV (which is now an affiliate of Seven Network) in Los Santos. Westinghouse then gradually acquired NBC's 56% stake in NBSN-TV on July 7, 1957.
=== 1963-1994; The division of the massive network change ===
After Westinghouse took NBC's 56% stake from NBSN-TV gradually, the network changed their broadcast structure by returning their local news as Channel 10 News. Westinghouse later also changed its branding from Action 10 to Channel 10 in 1963, using the font Group W introduced to the rest of Westinghouse's network. In 1965, the FCC ordered NBC to cancel the exchange of ownership of KYW-TV and WRCV-TV and return it to Westinghouse, after allegedly using coercion and extortion to exchange ownership of the broadcast. The FCC then ordered NBC affiliate WHNB-TV to provide at least a local news service for NBSN-TV.