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1 2 8 H a r t f o r d Hartford Advocate, the New Haven Advocate and the Fairfield County Weekly. In addition to its print products, CT1 Media pub- lishes digitally on courant.com, ctnow.com and ct.com. CT1 Media also offers news and information through its mobile apps, including those for UConn Husky athletics, politics, dining and deals. You'll also find CT1 Media on social media sites with daily money-saving deals, news feeds on Facebook and TV and print reporters posting news as it happens on Twitter. Print stories are published online immedi- ately, often with accompanying video for richer, more saturated storytelling. While television and print enjoy editorial inde- pendence, the combination of newspaper, television and digital reporting means more information about important news stories is available to readers and viewers. Together, these mediums form an incredible statewide news service. "CT1 Media is the only fully integrated newsroom, resulting in news gathering that is more robust, rich and detailed," Graziano says. The combined Courant/FOX CT newsroom is an always-on-deadline engine, keeping Connecticut resi- dents up to the minute with news and information they need to navigate their day. The company's vision is to be the local leader for news, information and entertainment, with every household in Connecticut being served by a CT1 Media product every day. Company evolution Times Mirror purchased the Courant, which had been employee-owned, in 1979. Times Mirror merged with the Tribune Company in 2000. FOX CT began in 1984 as a locally-owned, general entertainment station in competition with WCCT's predecessor, WTXX. Known as WTIC-TV at the time, the station became a charter Fox affiliate in 1986, while WCCT is affiliated with the CW Television Network. Over the years, FOX TV had several owners until it was sold to the Tribune Company, which subse- quently purchased WTXX. Both stations became sister properties to the Courant in the Times Mirror and Tribune merger in 2000. Fox TV's 10 o'clock newscast made its debut in 1989; weeknight 11 p.m. and weekday morning news- casts were added in 2008. Shortly after broadcasting its newscasts in high definition, the station added weekend morning and 4 p.m. newscasts, increasing the station's weekly local news output to the most of any station in the Hartford/New Haven market. Hartford Courant – CT1 Media FOX CT began broadcasting in the Courant's newsroom in December 2009. The high-definition studio is one of the most technologically forward newsrooms in the country. Continued from previous page DannyKaSh.coM