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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 .
WPKD-TV (channel 19), branded KDKA+, is an independent television station licensed to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Pittsburgh area. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside KDKA-TV (channel 2), the market's CBS owned-and-operated station.
Pittsburgh: 2 25 KDKA-TV: CBS: Start TV on 2.2, Dabl on 2.3, Fave TV on 2.4 4 27 WTAE-TV: ABC: Cozi TV on 4.2 11 23 WPXI: NBC: MeTV on 11.2, Laff on 11.3 13 4 WQED: PBS: Create on 13.2, World on 13.3, Showcase Channel on 13.4, PBS Kids on 13.5 16 16 WINP-TV: Ion: Bounce TV on 16.2, Court TV on 16.3, Ion Mystery on 16.4, Defy TV on 16.5 ...
Pre-season games not shown on one of the national broadcasters are seen on KDKA, channel 2. KDKA Sports Director Bob Pompeani and former Steelers QB Charlie Batch handle the broadcast duties. Coach Mike Tomlin's weekly press conference is shown live on KDKA-TV's sister station WPKD-TV, channel 19.
Pittsburgh is home to the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA 1020AM, the first community-sponsored television station in the United States, WQED 13, the first "networked" television station and the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, KDKA 2, and the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
WTAE-TV began broadcasting on September 14, 1958; the station has been Pittsburgh's ABC affiliate since its sign-on. Pittsburgh had only one major commercial television station for close to a decade—DuMont-owned WDTV (channel 2, now KDKA-TV), which signed on in 1949 and carried programs from all four television networks (DuMont, ABC, NBC and CBS).
Bill Burns (anchor) William M. Burns (April 10, 1913 – September 16, 1997) was an American journalist and television news anchor. Burns anchored the news for over three decades (1953–1989) in Pittsburgh for KDKA, which was the largest station in the market.
The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company entered broadcasting with the November 2, 1920, sign-on of KDKA radio in Pittsburgh. [5] The oldest surviving licensed commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA was an outgrowth of experimental station 8XK, a 75-watt station that was located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, and founded in 1916 by Westinghouse assistant chief ...