KDKA-TV is the CBS owned and operated (O&O;) television station in Pittsburgh. Its studios are located at One Gateway Center in Downtown Pittsburgh. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 25 (virtual channel 2) from its transmitter in Pittsburgh. Along with sister station KYW-TV, it is one of two television stations in Pennsylvania that has a callsign starting with a K. Both were former Westinghouse-owned stations that were part of Group...
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KDKA-TV is the CBS owned and operated (O&O;) television station in Pittsburgh. Its studios are located at One Gateway Center in Downtown Pittsburgh. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 25 (virtual channel 2) from its transmitter in Pittsburgh. Along with sister station KYW-TV, it is one of two television stations in Pennsylvania that has a callsign starting with a K. Both were former Westinghouse-owned stations that were part of Group W.
The station went on the air on January 11, 1949, as WDTV (W DuMont TeleVision), owned and operated by the DuMont Television Network. To mark the occasion, a live television special aired that day from 8:30pm to 11pm, with live segments from CBS, NBC, ABC and Dumont. It was one of the last stations to be granted a construction permit before the Federal Communications Commission imposed what turned out to be a four-year freeze on new licenses. It originally broadcast on channel 3, moving to channel 2 on November 23, 1952 to alleviate...
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