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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.
KDKA (1020 kHz) is a Class A, clear channel, AM radio station, owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. and licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Its radio studios are located at the combined Audacy Pittsburgh facility in the Foster Plaza on Holiday Drive in Green Tree, and its transmitter site is at Allison Park.
CBS News 24/7 (formerly known as CBSN and the CBS News Streaming Network) is an American streaming video news channel operated by the CBS News and Paramount Streaming divisions of Paramount Global. Launched on November 6, 2014, it features blocks of live, rolling news coverage, original programs, as well as encore airings of CBS News television ...
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.
That changed in 1969, when longtime KDKA radio-and-TV newscaster Paul Long joined WTAE-TV, along with his KDKA meteorologist-sidekick Joe DeNardo. WTAE-TV was known for the "legendary" news crew of Paul Long and Don Cannon from the late 1960s into the 1990s. Sports has been a major division at WTAE-TV.
The News in Music (Tabloid Lament) (2017) by Thomas Meadowcroft is an orchestral work of TV news music specifically written for the concert hall. [16] Commissioned by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra , the work positions orchestral news music, stylistically reminiscent of TV news music cues from the 1970s and 1980s, in a live ...
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.
KDKA was the last major Pittsburgh television station to begin airing newscasts in HD and the WPKD-TV (as WPCW) shows were included in the upgrade. On September 20, 2021, the station added a 12:30 p.m. rebroadcast of KDKA's noon newscast. On January 8, 2024, the station added an 8 p.m. newscast called Primetime News on KDKA+. [35]