WBNS-TV
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Columbus, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | 10TV (general) 10TV News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Central Ohio's News Leader (primary) New. Fresh. Up to the Minute. (secondary) |
| Channels |
Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 10 () |
| Subchannels | 10.1 CBS 10.2 Decades |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner |
Dispatch Broadcast Group (WBNS-TV, Inc.) |
| Founded | March 1948 |
| First air date | October 5, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | derived from sister station WBNS radio |
| Sister station(s) | WBNS, WBNS-FM |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 10 (VHF, 1949–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT2: Antenna TV (2013–2015) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 279 m (915 ft) |
| Facility ID | 71217 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°58′15.5″N 83°1′39.2″W / 39.970972°N 83.027556°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WBNS-TV, channel 10, is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The station is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network and is owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group along with WBNS radio (1460 AM and 97.1 FM). WBNS-TV's studios, offices and transmitter are located on Twin Rivers Drive west of Downtown Columbus, near the confluence of the Olentangy and Scioto rivers.
The Dispatch Broadcast Group broadcasting operations also include WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana.
WBNS-TV began operations on October 5, 1949. WBNS radio had been a CBS Radio Network affiliate for almost 20 years, so channel 10 immediately joined the CBS television network. It is currently the ninth longest-tenured CBS affiliate. Channel 10 has used the on-air branding of 10TV since 1977. It is also one of only a few stations in the country to have had the same owner, call letters and primary network affiliation throughout its history, as well as the only major station in the city still owned by Ohio interests.
The WBNS stations maintained common ownership with The Columbus Dispatch, the city's lone remaining daily newspaper, until 2015 under a exemption of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s cross-ownership rules. The FCC has largely prohibited common ownership of co-located print and broadcast media since the middle-1970s. The Wolfe family, who purchased the Dispatch in 1905, sold the newspaper and related assets to New Media Investment Group in June 2015.
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