CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' broadcasts include the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, news magazine programs CBS Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation. CBS operates a 24-hour news network called CBSN, the first live anchored 24-hour streaming news network that is exclusively online and on smart devices.

History

In 1929 the Columbia Broadcasting System began making regular radio news broadcasts — five-minute summaries taken from reports from the United Press, one of the three wire services that supplied newspapers with national and international news. In December 1930 CBS chief William S. Paley hired journalist Paul W. White away from United Press as CBS's news editor. Paley put the radio network's news operation at the same level as entertainment, and authorized White to interrupt programming if events warranted. Along with other networks, CBS chafed at the breaking news embargo imposed upon radio by the wire services, which prevented them from using bulletins until they first appeared in print. CBS disregarded an embargo when it broke the story of the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932, using live on-the-air reporting. Radio networks scooped print outlets with news of the 1932 presidential election.

WAKA

WAKA is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central Alabama's River Region that is licensed to Selma. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 42 (or virtual channel 8.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Gordonville. Owned by Bahakel Communications, WAKA is sister to CW affiliate WBMM and ABC affiliate WNCF. However, the latter is actually owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting but operated by Bahakel through a shared services agreement. All three television outlets share studios on Harrison Road in North Montgomery. Syndicated programming on WAKA includes Wheel of Fortune, Dr. Phil, The Doctors, and Jeopardy! among others.

History

Channel 8 debuted on March 17, 1960 as WSLA (acronym for SeLmA). The station was originally owned by the Brennan family and their company, Deep South Broadcasting, along with WBAM radio in Montgomery (740 AM, now WMSP), and broadcast from a converted home in Selma with the studio located in the garage. Deep South originally sought the WBAM-TV call letters for channel 8. However, in those days, Selma and Montgomery were separate markets, and Federal Communications Commission regulations at the time would not allow companion call letters to be issued to stations located in different markets. Originally an independent, it picked up an ABC affiliation soon afterward.

WHP-TV

WHP-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 21, is a CBS-affiliated television station serving Lancaster, York, Lebanon and its city of license Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The station's studio facilities located on North 6th Street in the Uptown section of Harrisburg, WHP's transmitter is located on a ridge north of Linglestown Road in Susquehanna Township (it is co-located with WITF-TV and is distinguishable as the unlit red and white tower; WITF's tower is unpainted and flashes strobes at all times).

On cable television, the station is available on Comcast channel 2 and in high definition on digital channel 802. Despite the presence of WHP-TV, CBS-owned KYW-TV in Philadelphia serves as an alternate CBS affiliate for South Central Pennsylvania, as it is carried on Comcast systems in the market.

History

The station first signed on the air on July 4, 1953. It was originally owned by Commonwealth Communications, along with WHP radio (580 AM and 97.3 FM, now WRVV). WHP-TV originally operated from studios located on Locust Street in Harrisburg. The station lost DuMont when that network folded in 1956; WHP-TV later began to share CBS programming with WLYH-TV (channel 15) in Lebanon and WSBA-TV (channel 43) in York as part of the Keystone Network. This arrangement was necessary in the days before cable television, since the Harrisburg/Lancaster/York market is very mountainous and UHF signals do not travel very far in rugged terrain. The three stations had a strong combined signal with 55 to 60% signal overlap.

WEVV-TV

WEVV-TV, virtual channel 44 (UHF digital channel 45), is a primary CBS-, and subchannel-only Fox- and MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Evansville, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Bayou City Broadcasting. WEVV maintains studio facilities located on Carpenter and Bond Streets in Downtown Evansville; WEVV maintains transmitter facilities located at John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky.

History

Early history

Channel 44 first signed on the air on November 17, 1983, as an independent station. The station was originally owned by Ralph Wilson (owner of San Francisco independent station KICU-TV, and founder of the Buffalo Bills). It was the first full-market independent station in the Tri-State, and the first full-market commercial television station to sign on in the Evansville market since WTVW (channel 7, now a CW affiliate) debuted 27 years earlier in August 1956.

Competing independent station WLCN (channel 19, later WAZE-TV and now defunct) – which signed one month after WEVV began operations – primarily served the southern part of the market at the time. The station originally operated from studio facilities located on Main Street and Riverside Drive in downtown Evansville.

CBS 12

CBS 12 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States:

Port Alberni (Alberni Valley Regional) Airport

Alberni Valley Regional Airport, (IATA: YPB, TC LID: CBS8), is located 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) northwest of Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada.

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