Springfield Television Corporation was a group owner of television stations based in Springfield, Massachusetts. The company was founded by William Lowell Putnam III, who launched the company's first television station, WWLP, on March 17, 1953. (Putnam was the son of politician and businessman, Roger Putnam. He was also a former trustee of the Lowell Observatory, founded by his great-uncle, astronomer Percival Lowell.)
The company owned five television stations during its lifetime, no more than four at any given time.
The company folded in 1984 with Putnam's retirement, and the sale of its remaining stations—WWLP, WKEF in Dayton, Ohio, and KSTU in Salt Lake City, Utah—to Adams Communications.
Fox affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, operating on channel 13 under a different license
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Putnam, Kitty Broman; Putnam, William Lowell (2011). How We Survived in UHF Television. Flagstaff, Arizona, United States: Light Technology (published 2012). ISBN978-1-62233-696-8.
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