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.

When Twin Cities Newspapers sold its radio holdings (WTCN-AM 1280 and WTCN-FM 97.1) in 1952, it was able to buy the much stronger and dominant WCCO Radio 830. A new company, Midwest Radio and Television, was created to do this, with CBS as a minority partner. The call letters of Channel 4 were changed to match its new radio sister along with its network affiliation. The WTCN-TV call sign would later be picked up by what is now KARE. CBS, in 1992, acquired 100% ownership of WCCO-TV.