WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. Its transmitter is at the Telefarm complex in Shoreview, Minnesota. It is one of four CBS O&Os; that currently uses its call letters in its branding instead of "CBS", which would make the station name "CBS 4".
WCCO-TV's roots originate with a radio station but not one with which it is affiliated today. WRHM, which took to the air in 1...
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WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. Its transmitter is at the Telefarm complex in Shoreview, Minnesota. It is one of four CBS O&Os; that currently uses its call letters in its branding instead of "CBS", which would make the station name "CBS 4".
WCCO-TV's roots originate with a radio station but not one with which it is affiliated today. WRHM, which took to the air in 1925, is the station to which WCCO-TV traces its lineage. In 1934, two newspapers—the Minneapolis Tribune and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press-Dispatch—formed a joint venture named "Twin Cities Newspapers," which purchased the radio station and changed its call letters to WTCN. Twin Cities Newspapers later expanded into the then-new medium of television with the launch of WTCN-TV on July 1, 1949 as Minnesota's second television station, broadcasting from the Radio City Theater at 50 South 9th Street in downtown Minneapolis.
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