KDKA-TV
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| Branding | KDKA-TV; KDKA News; CBS News Pittsburgh |
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| WPKD-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | January 11, 1949 |
Former call signs | WDTV (1949–1955) |
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Call sign meaning | derived from KDKA radio |
| Technical information | |
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 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KDKA-TV (channel 2), branded CBS Pittsburgh, is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS television network through its CBS News and Stations division alongside 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.