WUSA (TV)
 
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Washington, D.C. United States |
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| Branding | WUSA 9 (general) (stylized as "wusa⋆9") |
| Slogan | The Next Generation of News |
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Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9 () |
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TEGNA (WUSA-TV, Inc.) |
| First air date | January 16, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning |
United States of America USA Today (owned by Gannett, WUSA's former owner) |
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| Transmitter power | 52 kW |
| Height | 235.6 m |
| Facility ID | 65593 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°57′1″N 77°4′47″W / 38.95028°N 77.07972°WCoordinates: 38°57′1″N 77°4′47″W / 38.95028°N 77.07972°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WUSA, channel 9, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in the American capital of Washington, D.C.. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. (based in the suburb of McLean, Virginia) and effectively serves as the flagship television property of the company. WUSA's studios and transmitter are located at Broadcast House on Wisconsin Avenue in the Tenleytown neighborhood on the northwestern side of Washington. WUSA is the largest CBS affiliate by market size (WGCL-TV being the third-largest and KHOU being the second-largest) that is not owned and operated by the network.
The station's signal is relayed on a low-powered translator station, W50BD-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.).
The station first went on the air on January 11, 1949 as WOIC, and began full-time operations on January 16. The fourth-oldest station in the nation's capital, channel 9 was originally owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, a subsidiary of R.H. Macy and Company. Bamberger also owned WOR-AM-FM in New York City, and was working to put WOR-TV (channel 9, now WWOR-TV) on the air at the same time. Nine days later, WOIC broadcast the first televised American presidential inaugural address, given by President Harry S. Truman. WOIC picked up the CBS affiliation upon signing on, replacing WMAL-TV (channel 7, now WJLA-TV) as the network's Washington outlet. However, WOR was a shareholder in the Mutual Radio Network, which had plans to enter television with WOIC and WOR-TV as the flagship stations of its network; these plans never came to fruition. At the start of 1950, Bamberger Broadcasting changed its name to General Teleradio.
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