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WCBS-TV

WCBS-TV
CBS 2.png
New York, New York
United States
Branding CBS 2 (general)
CBS 2 News (newscasts)
Slogan Expect more
Channels Digital: 33 (UHF)
Virtual: 2 ()
Translators 22 (UHF) Plainview
Affiliations
Owner CBS Corporation
(CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)
Founded July 21, 1931
(as experimental station W2XAB)
First air date July 1, 1941; 75 years ago (1941-07-01)
Call letters' meaning We're the Columbia Broadcasting System
(former legal name of CBS)
Sister station(s) WBMP, WCBS, WCBS-FM, WFAN, WFAN-FM, WINS, WLNY-TV, WNEW-FM
Former callsigns WCBW (1941–1946)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 2 (VHF, 1939–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 56 (UHF, until 2009)
Transmitter power 349 kW
Height 397 m (1,302 ft)
Facility ID 9610
Transmitter coordinates 40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°W / 40.748444; -73.985667Coordinates: 40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°W / 40.748444; -73.985667
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website newyork.cbslocal.com

WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS Television Network, located in New York City. WCBS-TV is owned by the CBS Television Stations division of CBS Corporation, and operates as part of a television duopoly with Riverhead, Long Island-licensed independent station WLNY-TV (channel 55). WCBS-TV's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center and its transmitter is based at the Empire State Building, both in midtown Manhattan.

In the few areas of the eastern United States where a CBS station is not receivable over-the-air, WCBS is available on satellite via DirecTV (which also provides coverage of the station to Latin American and Caribbean countries and through major U.S. air carriers on LiveTV) and Dish Network (which carries the station as part of All American Direct's distant network package).

WCBS-TV's history dates back to CBS' opening of experimental station W2XAB on July 21, 1931, using the mechanical television system that had been more-or-less perfected in the late 1920s. Its first broadcast featured New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, Kate Smith, and George Gershwin. The station had the first regular seven-day broadcasting schedule in American television, broadcasting 28 hours a week. Among its early programming included The Television Ghost (1931–1933), Helen Haynes (1931–1932) and Piano Lessons (1931–1932).


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