WCCC

WCCC may refer to:

WCCC-FM

WCCC-FM is a radio station serving central Connecticut. The station regularly invited listeners to make requests and also held contests and offered prizes to their listeners. The station has studios in Hartford and the transmitter tower is in West Hartford. The station has been sold to the Educational Media Foundation, which flipped the station to a Christian Contemporary format on August 1, 2014.

History

WCCC (AM)

WCCC is a radio station at AM 1290 in West Hartford, Connecticut. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation operating as a class D AM station operating with 490 watts during the day and eleven watts at night per FCC rules.

The call letters WCCC stand for “We Cover Connecticut’s Capital”, Hartford.

History

WCCC signed on for the first time on October 26, 1947. The station was licensed to Greater Hartford Broadcasting, Inc., owned by the Savitt brothers, Bill (a well known Hartford jeweler) and Max. As was common in those days, the studios were located at the transmitter site which was on South Quaker Lane near Talcott Road in West Hartford. The entire station was housed in a small brick building with “WCCC” in big neon letters on the top adjacent to the 220-foot tall AM tower. WCCC was considered a Full Service station and offered news, farm reports, sports and the popular music of the day.

Although one of the lowest-powered stations in Hartford, WCCC’s 500-watt signal was strong enough to encompass the entire “greater Hartford” area which in the late forties consisted of the city of Hartford plus the neighboring towns.