WKBT-DT
 
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La Crosse/Eau Claire, Wisconsin United States |
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| Branding | News 8 |
| Slogan | Our Community. Your Station. |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner |
Morgan Murphy Media (QueenB Television, LLC) |
| First air date | August 8, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | Former TV sibling of WKBH Radio, which shared ownership with a music store that sold Kimball Pianos (the store's slogan: Kimball Brings Happiness) |
| Sister station(s) | Madison: WISC-TV/TVW |
| Former channel number(s) | 8 (VHF analog, 1954–2009) 41 (UHF digital, 2003–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
all secondary: ABC (1954–1970) DuMont (1954–1955) NBC (1954–1958) UPN (2006) |
| Transmitter power | 25.7 kW |
| Height | 464.9 m |
| Facility ID | 74424 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°5′28.1″N 91°20′16.5″W / 44.091139°N 91.337917°W |
| Website | news8000.com |
WKBT-DT is the CBS-affiliated television station for Western Wisconsin including the Chippewa Valley. Licensed to La Crosse, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter on Silver Creek Road in Galesville. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, the station has studios on South 6th Street in downtown La Crosse. Syndicated programming on WKBT includes Entertainment Tonight, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Dr. Oz Show among others.
WKBT signed-on August 8, 1954 as a sister station to WKBH radio (AM 1410) now WIZM. In the call sign, the "T" for "television" replaced the "H" to differentiate the stations. It originally carried programming from all four major networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont) but has always been a primary CBS affiliate. It lost DuMont after that network shut down in 1956 and lost NBC in 1958 after La Crosse and Eau Claire were collapsed into a single market. WKBT then shared ABC with NBC affiliate WEAU-TV (based in Eau Claire) until WXOW signed-on from La Crosse in 1970.
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