WJZ-TV
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Baltimore, Maryland United States |
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| Branding | WJZ 13 (general) WJZ Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Maryland's news station Complete coverage |
| Channels |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13 () |
| Subchannels | 13.1 CBS 13.2 Decades |
| Affiliations | CBS (O&O) (1995–present) |
| Owner |
CBS Corporation (CBS Television Licenses, LLC) |
| Founded | May 1946 |
| First air date | November 2, 1948 |
| Call letters' meaning | named after the former callsign of what is now WABC (AM), which stood for its original location in New Jersey |
| Sister station(s) | WJZ, WJZ-FM, WLIF, WLZL, WWMX |
| Former callsigns | WAAM (1948–1957) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 13 (VHF, 1948–2009) Digital: 38 (UHF, 1997–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: ABC (1948–1995) Secondary: DuMont (1948–1955) |
| Transmitter power | 33.8 kW |
| Height | 295 m (968 ft) |
| Facility ID | 25455 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°20′5″N 76°39′3″W / 39.33472°N 76.65083°WCoordinates: 39°20′5″N 76°39′3″W / 39.33472°N 76.65083°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | baltimore |
WJZ-TV, channel 13, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation. WJZ-TV's studios and offices are located on Television Hill in the Woodberry section of Baltimore, adjacent to the transmission tower it shares with four other Baltimore television stations.
On cable, the station is carried on Comcast channels 23 (standard definition) and 813 (high definition). In outlying areas of the market, the station is carried on channel 13.
Baltimore's third television station started on November 2, 1948 as WAAM. The station's original owner was Radio-Television of Baltimore, Inc., which was operated by a pair of Baltimore businessmen, brothers Ben and Herman Cohen. Channel 13 was originally an ABC affiliate, the network's fifth outlet to be located on the East Coast. Until 1956, it carried an additional primary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network. On the station's first day of operations, WAAM broadcast the 1948 presidential election returns and various entertainment shows, remaining on the air for 23 consecutive hours. Channel 13 has been housed in the same studio, located on what is now known as Television Hill, since its inception; the building was the first in Baltimore specifically designed for television production and broadcasting. As a DuMont affiliate, WAAM originated many Baltimore Colts games for the network's National Football League coverage.
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation purchased WAAM from the Cohen brothers in May 1957. Westinghouse took control of the station in August of that year, and changed its callsign to WJZ-TV the following month. The WJZ call letters had previously resided on ABC's flagship radio/television combination in New York City, which changed its calls to WABC-AM-FM-TV in 1953. However, Westinghouse's history with that set of call letters went back even further, as it was the original owner of WJZ radio, the flagship station of NBC's Blue Network, which would eventually become ABC.
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