It’s WTIC-TV Week! WTIC-TV signed on in September 1984, the second TV station in Connecticut to use those call letters. It was an independent station until October 1986, when it affiliated with the new Fox Broadcasting Company.
Here’s a promotional spot for WTIC-TV’s broadcast of a college basketball game pitting Michigan and Michigan State, two schools in the Big Ten athletic conference. The game was played on Saturday, February 23rd, 1985 and this spot aired in the days leading up to the game.
This is sort of what my hair looks like now–after a bad experience–with “dreadlocks” and head lice!