WCCT-TV, channel 20, is an affiliate of The CW Television Network, licensed to Waterbury, Connecticut and serving the Hartford/New Haven television market. WCCT is owned by Tribune Broadcasting and is one-half of a duopoly with Fox affiliate WTIC-TV (channel 61). The two stations share facilities at the headquarters of the co-owned Hartford Courant in downtown Hartford, as well as having their transmitters on the same tower on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington.

On WCCT-DT2 and Comcast digital channel 246 is This TV.

The station commenced operations on September 4, 1953 as WATR-TV on analog channel 53, the second UHF station in Connecticut. It was owned by the Thomas family along with WATR radio (1320 AM). The station's studios and transmitter were located on West Peak in Meriden. At the time, the station's signal only covered Waterbury, New Haven and the southern portion of the state.

WATR was originally a dual secondary affiliate of both DuMont and ABC, sharing them with New Haven-based WNHC-TV (now WTNH). DuMont ceased broadcasts in 1956, and shortly afterward, WNHC became an exclusive ABC affiliate. WATR then became an independent station on paper, but picked up ABC shows turned down by WNHC.

Jared Nightingale (born October 3, 1982) is an American professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for the Connecticut Whale in the American Hockey League.

On January 30, 2009, Nightingale signed an AHL contract with the Hartford Wolf Pack. He was resigned by Hartford on August 23, 2010.

Howard Baldwin is an American entrepreneur and film producer. He is the CEO of Baldwin Entertainment, which has produced films such as the Academy Award-nominated Ray. Baldwin founded the New England Whalers ice hockey franchise in the WHA and has also owned part of the Minnesota North Stars and Pittsburgh Penguins NHL franchises. He won the Stanley Cup in 1992 with Pittsburgh. The WHA's coach of the year award was originally named the Howard Baldwin Trophy in his honor.

Baldwin has a long standing involvement with Connecticut starting in 1974, when he relocated the New England Whalers to Hartford, and continuing with that after taking control of the Hartford Wolfpack's business and every thing non-hockey releated, he has also renamed the team the Connecticut Whale.

Baldwin became one of the youngest executives in professional sports when he became a founder and partner of the World Hockey Association’s (WHA) Boston-based Whalers in 1971 at the age of 28. Five years later he was president of the league. The Whalers first season in the WHA was a success both on and off the ice with coach Jack Kelley’s team winning the 1973 AVCO World Cup Championship. In 1974, Baldwin determined that the team needed its own building. He moved the Whalers from Boston to Hartford’s new Civic Center Coliseum, a vehicle for the revitalization of downtown Hartford. In 1979 Baldwin guided the WHA into a historic merger with the National Hockey League. Baldwin served as the managing general partner of the Whalers until the team was sold to local ownership in 1988.

Audrina Cathleen Patridge (born May 9, 1985) is an American reality television personality, actress, and model. She is known for being one of the four original primary cast members featured on the MTV reality series The Hills. She has also starred in the films Sorority Row and Into the Blue 2: The Reef. Patridge returned to reality television in April 2011 with her new series, Audrina.

After moving to Los Angeles, Patridge was hired for a job at Quixote Studios as a receptionist. In 2005, Lauren Conrad and her best friend and roommate Heidi Montag moved into her building to shoot their MTV show The Hills. Patridge was cast in the series as a friend of Conrad and Montag. In the second through fifth seasons of The Hills, she had been working for Epic Records.

On May 28, 2009, she confirmed during an interview on On Air with Ryan Seacrest that she was leaving The Hills to star in her own reality program documenting her life outside The Hills. Her final episode of the series was supposed to be on December 1, 2009. However, she later signed on for the series' sixth (and final) season while her new series, produced by Mark Burnett, set to air on MTV in mid 2010, was put on hold due to The Hills. Patridge appeared in more episodes of The Hills than any other cast member.

Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born 26 November 1990), better known as Rita Ora, is a British singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she appeared on the BBC's Eurovision: Your Country Needs You where she auditioned to be the British contestant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Later in 2009, she signed to Roc Nation. Ora is of Kosovar Albanian ethnicity.

In 2012, Ora provided the vocals for DJ Fresh’s "Hot Right Now", which has been the fastest selling single in the UK of 2012. Ora's debut single, "R.I.P", topped the UK Singles Chart in May 2012. Ora will spend the summer 2012 opening concerts for Coldplay.

Rita Ora was born in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo) and moved to the United Kingdom the same year of her birth. She grew up in West London and attended St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School in Earls Court, following which she graduated from Sylvia Young Theatre School and then St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College. She began singing from a young age. In 2004, she appeared in the British film Spivs. She auditioned for Eurovision: Your Country Needs You on BBC One to be the British contestant for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest but later withdrew from the competition after a few episodes as she did not feel ready.