Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
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City | Pittsburgh |
Branding | KDKA-TV (general) KDKA-TV News (newscasts) |
Slogan | Expect More (general) Pittsburgh's News Period (news) Your Steeler Station (during NFL season) |
Channels |
Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 2 (PSIP) |
Subchannels | 2.1 CBS 2.2 Decades |
Affiliations | CBS (O&O) (secondary until 1955) |
Owner |
CBS Corporation (CBS Broadcasting, Inc.) |
First air date | January 11, 1949 |
Call letters' meaning | derived from sister station KDKA radio |
Sister station(s) |
KDKA KDKA-FM WBZZ WDSY-FM WPCW |
Former callsigns | WDTV (1949–1955) |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 3 (VHF, 1949–1952) 2 (VHF, 1952–2009) |
Former affiliations |
Primary: DuMont (1949–1955) Secondary: NBC (1949–1957) ABC (1949–1958) |
Transmitter power | 1000 kW, |
Height | 311 m (1,020 ft) |
Facility ID | 25454 |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°29′38″N 80°1′9″W / 40.49389°N 80.01917°WCoordinates: 40°29′38″N 80°1′9″W / 40.49389°N 80.01917°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | pittsburgh |
KDKA-TV, channel 2, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CW station WPCW (channel 19). The two stations share studios located at the Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh, while KDKA-TV's transmitter is located in the Perry North neighborhood of Pittsburgh. On cable, KDKA is carried on Comcast channels 6 (channel 3 in Bethel Park and Monroeville, and channel 2 in outlying areas) (standard definition) and 802 (high definition), and Verizon FiOS channels 2 (standard definition) and 502 (high definition).
KDKA-TV is available on cable television in the Johnstown, Altoona, and Wheeling areas, as well as several other out-of-market cable systems in northwestern Pennsylvania, northwestern Maryland, northeastern Ohio, and North-Central West Virginia. The furthest south KDKA-TV is carried on cable is in Beverly, West Virginia.