KCBS-TV
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| KCBS-TV | |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | |
| Slogan | Make the Move. |
| Branding | CBS 2/CBS 2 News |
| Analog channel | 2 (VHF) |
| Digital channel | 60 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner | Viacom |
| Founded | May 6, 1948 |
| Callsign meaning | K Columbia Broadcasting System |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (1948-1951) CBS (1951-present) |
| Website | www.cbs2.com |
KCBS-TV (Channel 2, "CBS 2") is the West Coast flagship station of the CBS television network.
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Technical Information
- Frequency: Channel 2
- Name: CBS 2
- Radius: 85 miles (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties)
- Slogan:
- Start of Operation: May 6, 1948 as KTSL-TV.
- Transmitter Location: Los Angeles, California (34° 13' 55.00" N Latitude, 118° 4' 18.00" W Longitude)
- Transmitter Power: 36.3 kW
History
KCBS-TV is the second oldest commercially-licensed television station in Southern California, behind KTLA Channel 5. It began its operations as KTSL-TV on May 6, 1948, and was affiliated with the old DuMont Television Network (current Fox television O&O KTTV was Los Angeles' original CBS station). On January 1, 1951, CBS gave up its 50% stake in KTTV (Los Angeles Times owned the other half) and purchased KTSL. CBS programming moved to Channel 2. In November of 1951, KTSL changed its call letters to KNXT-TV, to coincide with co-owned CBS radio station, KNX-AM 1070.
In 1960, Channel 2 created the nation's first one-hour local newscast, "The Big News," which featured the late Jerry Dunphy, one of Southern California's most beloved news icons. This helped make Channel 2 the #1 news station in Los Angeles, much like its sister stations, WBBM-TV in Chicago and WCBS-TV in New York City. Eventually, KNXT expanded to two-and-a-half hours of live local news. However, in the mid 1970s rival KABC-TV began eating into KNXT's ratings. The station fired Dunphy (who was quickly hired by KABC) and adopted a format similar to KABC's Eyewitness News, but the ratings plummeted and have never recovered.
On April 2, 1984, at noon, KNXT changed its call letters to the present KCBS-TV. The station, much like many others in the 1990s, adopted the "CBS2" moniker for its on-air image. In 2002, KCBS-TV became sister stations with KCAL after the latter was purchased by Viacom.
The station's longtime home on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, CBS Columbia Square was vacated, and Viacom has plans to relocated its Los Angeles television stations to a new office complex on the site of its CBS Studio Center in Studio City in 2006, located 5 miles away in the San Fernando Valley. Groundbreaking of the new KCAL/KCBS-TV studios took place on June 17, 2005.
- Former callsigns
- 1948-1951: KTSL-TV
- 1951-1984: KNXT-TV
- 1984-present: KCBS-TV
Personalities
The station's former anchors include Connie Chung and Maury Povich. Jerry Dunphy was once an anchor at KCBS and KCAL, both Viacom Stations in Los Angeles.
See also
External links
- Photos of KCBS's news set (http://www.setstudio.com/pages/kcbs/)
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KCBS-TV (http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KCBS-TV)
| Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC) - KTLA 5 (The WB) - KABC 7 (ABC) - KCAL 9 (IND) - KTTV 11 (FOX) - KCOP 13 (UPN) - KSCI 18 (IND) KWHY 22 (IND) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KCET 28 (PBS) - KPXN 30 (PAX) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KTBN 40 (TBN) - KXLA 44 (IND) - KFTR 46 (Telefutura) KOCE 50 (PBS) - KVEA 52 (TEL) KAZA 54 (TV Azteca) - KDOC 56 (IND) - KLCS 58 (PBS)- KRCA 62 (IND) - KBEH 63 (IND) - KHIZ 64 (IND) | |||
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