KCCO-TV
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Minneapolis – Saint Paul, Minnesota United States |
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| City | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Branding | WCCO 4 (general) WCCO 4 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Minnesota's most-watched station (General) |
| Channels |
Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
| Subchannels | 4.1 CBS 4.2 Decades — 7.1 KCCO-TV (Alexandria, Minnesota) — 12.1 KCCW-TV (Walker, Minnesota) |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Affiliations | CBS (O&O) (Secondary through 1953) |
| Owner |
CBS Corporation (CBS Television Licenses, LLC) |
| First air date | July 1, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | derived from sister station WCCO radio (Washburn Crosby COmpany) |
| Sister station(s) | KMNB, KZJK, WCCO |
| Former callsigns | WTCN-TV (1949–1952) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 4 (VHF, 1949–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Secondary: ABC (1949–1953) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 432 m (1,417 ft) |
| Facility ID | 9629 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°3′44″N 93°8′21″W / 45.06222°N 93.13917°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | minnesota |
WCCO-TV, channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station, licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and serving the Twin Cities television market. WCCO-TV's studios are located on South 11th Street in downtown Minneapolis, and its transmitter is located at the Telefarm complex in Shoreview, Minnesota.
WCCO-TV's programming is also seen on two full-power satellite stations: KCCO-TV (channel 7) in Alexandria, Minnesota; and KCCW-TV (channel 12) in Walker, Minnesota.
WCCO-TV's roots originate with a radio station, but not the one with which it is affiliated today. Radio station WRHM, which signed on the air in 1925, is the station to which WCCO-TV traces its lineage. In 1934, two newspapers – the Minneapolis Tribune and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press-Dispatch – formed a joint venture named "Twin Cities Newspapers", which purchased the radio station and changed its call letters to WTCN. Twin Cities Newspapers later expanded into the fledgling FM band with WTCN-FM, and shortly thereafter the then-new medium of television with the launch of WTCN-TV on July 1, 1949 as Minnesota's second television station, broadcasting from the Radio City Theater at 50 South 9th Street in downtown Minneapolis. It has always been a primary CBS affiliate since its sign on. However, it also had a secondary affiliation with ABC during its early years from 1949-1953 when another incarnation of WTCN-TV (now known as KARE of which it also had the ABC affiliation from its sign on in 1953 until 1961 when it became an independent station).
Twin Cities Newspapers sold off its broadcast holdings in 1952, with channel 4 going to the Murphy and McNally families, who had recently bought the Twin Cities' dominant radio station, WCCO (830 AM), from CBS. The stations merged under a new company, Midwest Radio and Television, with CBS as a minority partner. The call letters of channel 4 were changed to WCCO-TV to match its new radio sister on August 17th (the WTCN-TV call sign would later be picked up by what is now KARE). CBS was forced to sell its minority ownership stake in the WCCO stations in 1954 to comply with Federal Communications Commission ownership limits of the time.
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