WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center and its transmitter is at the top of the Empire State Building, both in Midtown Manhattan. It is one-half of a television duopoly with Long Island-licensed independent station WLNY-TV (channel 55).

In the few areas of the eastern United States where viewers cannot receive CBS programs over-the-air, WCBS-TV is available on satellite to subscribers of DirecTV, which also provides coverage of the station to Latin America and major U.S. air carriers via the LiveTV inflight entertainment system. WCBS-TV is also available to Dish Network customers as part of All American Direct's distant network package.

The station's signal is multiplexed as follows:

Digital subchannel 2.2 is operated as a 24-hour news channel, branded as CBS New York Plus; its programming draws upon the resources of WCBS-TV, WLNY, WCBS radio (880 AM), WINS (1010 AM), and WFAN (660 AM). Similar channels will eventually be rolled out to CBS' other owned-and-operated stations.

Christopher James "Chris" Christie (born September 6, 1962) is the 55th and current Governor of New Jersey. Upon his election to the governorship in November 2009, Christie became the first Republican to win a statewide election in New Jersey in 12 years. Christie, an attorney, previously served as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and as a Morris County, New Jersey Freeholder. In 2011, he considered entering the race for the Republican Presidential nomination but ultimately decided not to run.

Chris Christie was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Sondra A. (née Grasso) and Wilbur James "Bill" Christie, a certified public accountant. Christie is of Scottish, Irish, and Sicilian descent. He was raised in Livingston, graduating from Livingston High School. Christie graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1984 and Seton Hall University School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1987. Christie was admitted to the Bar of the State of New Jersey and the Bar of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, in December 1987. After being elected the Governor of New Jersey, he was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey, and Monmouth University in 2010.

Barbara Buono (born July 28, 1953) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 2002, where she represents the 18th Legislative District.

Before entering the Senate, Buono served in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, the General Assembly, from 1994 to 2001, where she served as the Minority Parliamentarian. In the Assembly, Buono became the ranking Democrat on the Assembly Budget Committee. She was Democratic Conference Chair from 2004 to 2007. She is the New Jersey Senate Majority Leader-designate, succeeding Stephen M. Sweeney the President-designate of the New Jersey Senate, who took office on January 12, 2010.

She began her career as a criminal trial attorney for the New Jersey State Department of the Public Advocate and later entered private practice. Buono served on the Metuchen Borough Council from 1993 to 1994. While the Metuchen Police Commissioner, She worked to increase safety in suburban neighborhoods and instituted Metuchen's community policing program.

Dr. Max Gomez, Ph. D. is a native of Havana, Cuba and was the medical correspondent/senior health editor for the NBC flagship television station WNBC in New York City. He delivered segments on health, science and medicine on the 5pm news. Before that he was the health and science editor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia from 1984 until 1991. In July 2007, "Dr. Max", as he is known, signed as a freelance medical reporter for WCBS-TV in New York.

He is the winner of six New York Emmy Awards, and two Philadelphia Emmy awards. In addition to his broadcast work, Gomez serves on the Advisory Board of HealthCorps.

He graduated cum laude from Princeton University, with a Ph.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was also a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at New York's Rockefeller University. Dr. Gomez resides in New York City.