KDKA-TV

KDKA-TV

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States
Channels	Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 2
Branding	KDKA-TV CBS News Pittsburgh
Programming
Affiliations	2.1: CBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) (CBS Broadcasting Inc.)
Sister stations	WPKD-TV
History
First air date	January 11, 1949 (75 years ago) (1949-01-11)
Former call signs	WDTV (1949–1955)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 3 (VHF, 1949–1952), 2 (VHF, 1952–2009)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1949–1956) NBC (secondary, 1949–1957) ABC (secondary, 1949–1958)
Call sign meaning	derived from KDKA radio
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	25454
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	311 m (1,020 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°29′38″N 80°1′9″W / 40.49389°N 80.01917°W / 40.49389; -80.01917
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/

KDKA-TV (channel 2), also known as CBS Pittsburgh, is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Jeannette-licensed WPKD-TV (channel 19), an independent station. The two stations share studios at the Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh; KDKA-TV's transmitter is located in the city's Perry North neighborhood. KDKA-TV, along with sister station KYW-TV in Philadelphia, are the only CBS-affiliated television stations east of the Mississippi River with "K" call signs.

KDKA-TV is available on cable in parts of the Johnstown–Altoona, Wheeling–Steubenville and Youngstown areas, as well as several other out-of-market cable systems in northwestern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, northeastern and east-central Ohio, and north-central West Virginia. The farthest south KDKA-TV is carried on cable is in Beverly, West Virginia.^[2]