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KDKA-TV

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Television station in Pittsburgh
Not to be confused withWDKA.

KDKA-TV
Channels
BrandingKDKA-TV;KDKA News;CBS News Pittsburgh
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WPKD-TV
History
First air date
January 11, 1949
(76 years ago)
 (1949-01-11)
Former call signs
WDTV (1949–1955)
Former channel number
  • Analog: 3 (VHF, 1949–1952), 2 (VHF, 1952–2009)
  • DuMont (1949–1956)
  • NBC (secondary, 1949–1957)
  • ABC (secondary, 1949–1958)
Call sign meaning
derived fromKDKA radio
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID25454
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT311 m (1,020 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°29′38″N80°1′9″W / 40.49389°N 80.01917°W /40.49389; -80.01917
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/

KDKA-TV (channel 2), brandedCBS Pittsburgh, is atelevision station inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It isowned and operated by theCBS television network through itsCBS News and Stations division, and issister toWPKD-TV (channel 19), anindependent station. The two outlets share studios at theGateway Center inDowntown Pittsburgh; KDKA-TV's transmitter is located in the city'sPerry North neighborhood.

History

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DuMont origins (1949–1954)

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WDTV broadcast ofWe, the People on April 18, 1952. The guest isNew York Yankees playerBill Bevens.

The station signed on as WDTV on January 11, 1949, as a primary affiliate of the formerDuMont Television Network, while carrying secondary affiliations with CBS,NBC, andABC. It originally broadcast on channel 3 and was owned and operated by DuMont parent companyAllen B. DuMont Laboratories.[2] It was the 51st television station in the U.S., the third and last DuMont-owned station to sign on the air (behind WABD (nowWNYW) inNew York City andWTTG inWashington, D.C.), and the first owned-and-operated station in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. To mark the occasion, alive television special aired that day from 8:30 to 11 p.m. on WDTV, which began with a one-hour local program broadcast fromSyria Mosque in Pittsburgh. The remainder of the show featured live segments from DuMont, CBS, NBC, and ABC withArthur Godfrey,Milton Berle, DuMont hostTed Steele, and many other celebrities.[3]

The station also represented a milestone in the television industry, providing the link between the Midwestern and East Coast stations which included 13 other cities able to receive live telecasts fromBoston toSt. Louis for the first time.[4] WDTV was one of the last stations to receive a construction permit before theFederal Communications Commission (FCC)-imposedfour-year freeze on new television station licenses.

When the release of the FCC'sSixth Report and Order ended the license freeze in 1952, DuMont was forced to give up its channel 3 allocation to alleviate interference with nearby stations broadcasting on the frequency, notably NBC-owned WNBK (nowWKYC) inCleveland, which itself moved to the frequency to avoid interference with stations inColumbus andDetroit. WDTV moved its facilities to channel 2 on November 23, 1952;[5][6]WPSU-TV would later sign on with the channel 3 frequency for theJohnstownAltoona market. Shortly after moving, it was the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, advertising that its1–7 a.m.Swing Shift Theatre served the "200,000 workers [in their viewing area] who finishedshift work at midnight".[7] DuMont's network of stations on coaxial cable stretched from Boston to St. Louis. These stations were linked together viaAT&T'scoaxial cable feed with the sign-on of WDTV allowing the network to broadcast live programming to all the stations at the same time. Stations not yet connected to the coaxial cable receivedkinescope recordings via physical delivery.[citation needed]

The DuMont Television Network in 1949.

Dealing with competition

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Until the end of the freeze, WDTV's only competition came in the form of distant signals from stations in Johnstown, Altoona, Wheeling and Youngstown. However, Pittsburgh saw twoUHF stations launch during 1953—ABC affiliateWENS (channel 16, later to becomeWINP-TV), and WKJF-TV (channel 53, later to becomeWPGH-TV), anindependent station. At the time, UHF stations could not be viewed without the aid of an expensive set-top converter, and the picture quality was marginal at best with one. UHF stations in the area faced an additional problem because Pittsburgh is located in a somewhat ruggeddissected plateau, and the reception of UHF stations is usually poor in such terrain. These factors played a role in the short-lived existences of both WKJF and WENS.[citation needed]

Although Pittsburgh was the sixth largest market in the country (behind New York City,Chicago,Los Angeles,Philadelphia and Washington/Baltimore), the other VHF stations in town were slow to develop. This was because the major cities in theUpper Ohio Valley are so close together that they must share the VHF band. After the FCC lifted the license freeze in 1952, it refused to grant any new commercial VHF construction permits to Pittsburgh in order to give the smaller cities in the area a chance to get on the air. WDTV had ade factomonopoly on Pittsburgh television. Like its sister stations WABD and WTTG, it was far stronger than the DuMont network as a whole. According to network general managerTed Bergmann, WDTV brought in $4 million a year, which was more than enough to keep the network afloat. Owning the only readily viewable station in such a large market gave DuMont considerable leverage in getting its programs cleared in large markets where it did not have an affiliate. As CBS, NBC and ABC had secondary affiliations with WDTV, this was a strong incentive to stations in large markets to clear DuMont's programs or risk losing valuable advertising in the sixth-largest market. Also, NBC affiliates from Johnstown (WJAC-TV, channel 6) and Wheeling (WTRF-TV, channel 7) were able to be received in Pittsburgh and a CBS affiliate fromSteubenville, Ohio (WSTV-TV, nowWTOV-TV) was also able to be received there as well. CBS, in fact, actually attempted to purchase WSTV-TV's license before it went on the air and move its channel 9 allocation to Pittsburgh due to the close proximity between Pittsburgh and Steubenville (At the time less than an hour apart by car; the completion of thePenn-Lincoln Parkway in 1964 reduced that time to about a half-hour driving time today), but the FCC turned CBS down. The Wheeling/Steubenville TV market, despite its very close proximity to Pittsburgh and overlapping signals, remains a separate market by FCC standards today.

WDTV aired all DuMont network shows live and "cherry-picked" the best shows from the other networks, airing them on kinescope on an every-other-week basis. WDTV's sign-on was also significant because it was now possible to feed live programs from the East to the Midwest and vice versa. In fact, its second broadcast was the activation of the coaxial cable linking New York City and Chicago. It would be another two years before the West Coast received live programming, but this was the beginning of the modern era of network television.[citation needed]

As KDKA-TV (1954–present)

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KDKA-TV's studio building atOne Gateway Center in Pittsburgh. The station has been housed in this facility since 1956.[8]
KDKA-TV's updated studio building signage put up in April 2019. KDKA radio moved to Green Tree in 2010.
KDKA-TV's 2021 news truck, aChevrolet Equinox, inPittsburgh.

By 1954, DuMont was in serious financial trouble.Paramount Pictures, which owned a stake in DuMont,vetoed a merger with ABC, who had merged with Paramount's former theater divisionUnited Paramount Theaters a year before. A few years earlier, the FCC had ruled that Paramount controlled DuMont and there were still lingering questions about whether UPT had actually broken off from Paramount. Paramount did not want to risk the FCC's wrath.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh-basedWestinghouse Electric Corporation had been competing with local politicians to acquire thenon-commercial channel 13 license from the FCC, as no other Pittsburgh-allocated VHF station would be signing on for the foreseeable future. After launchingWBZ-TV in Boston in 1948 and purchasing two other television stations, Westinghouse was growing impatient with not having a station in its own home market. Before the freeze, Westinghouse was a shoo-in for the channel 6 license that would later be given to WJAC-TV in Johnstown after that station gave up the channel 13 allocation to Pittsburgh as part of the FCC's reallocation plan.[9] Westinghouse later offered a compromise plan to the FCC, in which the commission would grant Westinghouse the channel 13 license; Westinghouse would then "share" the facility with the educational licensee. Finding the terms unacceptable, Pittsburghattorney Leland Hazard called WestinghouseCEO Gwilym Price to ask him if he should give up on his fight forpublic television. Price said that Hazard should keep fighting for it, giving Westinghouse backing for the station that would eventually becomeWQED.[10]

Westinghouse then turned its attention to WDTV, offering DuMont a then-record $9.75 million for the station in late 1954. Desperate for cash, DuMont promptly accepted Westinghouse's offer.[11] While the sale gave DuMont a short-term cash infusion, it eliminated DuMont's leverage in getting clearances in other major markets. Within two years, the DuMont network was no more. Once the sale closed in January 1955, Westinghouse changed WDTV's call letters to KDKA-TV, after Westinghouse's pioneering radio stationKDKA (1020 AM).[12] As such, it became one of the few stations east of theMississippi River with a "K" call sign.

As KDKA radio had long been an affiliate of theNBC Blue Network (Westinghouse was a co-founder ofRCA, NBC's then-parent company), it was expected that KDKA-TV would eventually become a primary affiliate of the NBC television network. But the network was seeking to purchase Westinghouse's Philadelphia stations,KYW radio and WPTZ (nowKYW-TV). When Westinghouse balked, NBC threatened to pull its programming from WPTZ and Boston's WBZ-TV unless Westinghouse agreed to trade its Philadelphia properties for NBC'sradio and television properties in Cleveland. (Related to the trade, Westinghouse received a cross-station waiver from the FCC to own the Cleveland properties due to overlapping signals with KDKA radio and channel 2.) The decision would lead to anacrimonious relationship between Westinghouse and NBC in later years.[13][14] Two years after the ownership change, channel 2 became a primary affiliate of the higher-rated CBS network instead.[15] KDKA-TV retained secondary affiliations with NBC until WIIC-TV (channel 11, nowWPXI) signed on in 1957, and ABC untilWTAE-TV (channel 4) signed on in 1958. Despite the ending of its commercial VHF monopoly, KDKA-TV did welcome competitor WIIC-TV on the air.[16] KDKA-TV became theflagship station of Westinghouse's broadcasting arm,Group W. During the late 1950s, KDKA-TV was briefly affiliated with theNTA Film Network, sharing the affiliation with WTAE-TV, WIIC-TV, and WQED.[17] On November 22, 1963, newscaster Bill Burns provided almost three hours of live coverage after theshooting of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy.[18]

In 1994, Westinghouse was looking to make a group-wide affiliation deal for its stations as part of a larger plan to transform itself into a major media conglomerate after WJZ-TV lost its ABC affiliation toScripps-ownedWMAR-TV in an affiliation deal spurred byFox'saffiliation deal withNew World Communications. Westinghouse negotiated with NBC and CBS for a deal. Had Westinghouse signed with NBC, KDKA-TV would affiliate itself with NBC 40 years after passing up the network, with the CBS affiliation going to WPXI, who had originally intended to affiliate itself with CBS until the NBC-Westinghouse feud started as well as channel 11's own sign-on problems in the 1950s.[19] While NBC (the highest-rated network during much of the 1980s and 1990s) offered more money, CBS was interested in the programming opportunities Westinghouse offered, due to its own stagnation in programming at the time. CBS also offered a potential merger of their respective radio networks down the road (which ultimately happened), while NBC had abandoned radio in 1987. Ultimately, Westinghouse signed a long-term deal with CBS to convert the entire five-station Group W television unit to a group-wide CBS affiliation, making the Pittsburgh market one of the few major markets that were not affected by the affiliation switches.[20][21]

In 1995, Westinghouse acquired CBS, making KDKA-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station, after four decades as being simply a CBS affiliate. In 1997, Westinghouse became CBS Corporation, which would then merge withViacom (which had been Paramount's parent since 1994) in 2000, making KDKA-TV a sister station with PittsburghUPN affiliate WNPA-TV (channel 19, nowindependent stationWPKD-TV). Five years later, Viacom became the newCBS Corporation and spun offa new Viacom. In May 2003, KDKA-TV retired the distinctive Group W font in its logo after 40 years, adopting a more standardized CBS branding identity.

In August 2007, KDKA-TV unveiled a new image campaign, entitled "Your Home", with music and lyrics performed by singer-songwriterBill Deasy. The promo features scenes of Pittsburgh and its surrounding areas, as well as three of the station's personalites. In September 2007, the station unveiled another promo featuring theJoe Grushecky song "Coming Home". Later, a third spot, "Long Way Home", was introduced, featuring the voice of Kelsey Friday.[22]

On February 2, 2017, CBS agreed to sellCBS Radio to Entercom (nowAudacy), currently the fourth-largest radio broadcasting company in the United States. The sale was completed on November 17, 2017,[23] and was conducted using aReverse Morris Trust so that it was tax-free. While CBS shareholders retained a 72% ownership stake in the combined company, Entercom was the surviving entity, with KDKA radio and its sister stations now separated from KDKA-TV,[24][25] though the three stations maintain a strong news and content sharing agreement.

On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom remerged into ViacomCBS (nowParamount Global).[26]

On March 21, 2023, KDKA-TV adopted a new logo and on-air branding in accordance with the current CBS "deconstructed eye" corporate identity; the new brand maintains the "KDKA-TV News" title as a verbal brand alongside a standardized "CBS News Pittsburgh" logo. Though most of its sister stations went with the corporate blue/white color scheme as a default, the station instead went with a black and gold scheme, embolic of the primary and secondary colors used in theflag of Pittsburgh, along with the city's professional sports teams. Conversely, its sister station in Philadelphia,KYW-TV, went with a black and green motif matching that of thePhiladelphia Eagles.[27]

Programming

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Part of the 1995 affiliation agreement between CBS and Westinghouse included a deal to carry the entire CBS lineup in pattern, with no preemptions except for extended breaking news coverage or local news events. In the fall of 1995, channel 2 began running the entire CBS lineup in pattern, as it, and sister stationKPIX-TV inSan Francisco, were already affiliated with the network. However, unlike its rivals, KDKA-TV runs the weekday edition of theCBS Evening News a half-hour later, from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.Eastern Time, due to its evening newscast running for three full hours from 4 to 7 p.m. The weekend editions usually air on Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m.

Preempted programming

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Prior to 1995, channel 2 preempted moderate amounts of CBS programming. From the early 1960s to July 1990, the station did not clearAs the World Turns, except for a brief period from December 1976 to October 1978. At the same time, WTAJ-TV in Altoona had run the program and was viewable in much of Pittsburgh itself and the eastern part of the market, and was even carried on many Pittsburgh-area cable systems well into the 1980s. Also, CBS affiliates WTOV-TV in Steubenville (until 1980) and WTRF-TV in Wheeling (from 1980) were viewable in Pittsburgh and points west. Until 1978,As the World Turns ran on WPGH and for a few years after that, it ran onWPTT-TV (channel 22). KDKA-TV also preempted the daytime game shows and reruns from CBS at various points during the 1970s. KDKA-TV was one of four CBS affiliates to preempt the 1974 filmDeath Wish on its television debut despite the network's 30+ cuts to its violent content; these affiliates objected not only to the remaining amount of violence in the film, but also to the apparent endorsement by the film of vigilante violence.[28] The station also occasionally preempted other CBS prime time programs for a syndicated movie, local news special, or sports (during the years in which the station had broadcast rights toPittsburgh Pirates baseball andPittsburgh Penguins hockey). Weekend preemptions included a small portion of Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons, and Sunday morning religious programs. In 1993, KDKA-TV stopped runningCBS This Morning and instead ranDisney's syndicated cartoon block. Despite the preemptions, CBS was mostly satisfied with KDKA-TV, as it was the far-and-away market leader in Pittsburgh owing to its eight-year head-start on its main competitors.

Syndicated and local talk shows

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As a Westinghouse-owned station, KDKA-TV carried the numerous syndicated talk shows produced by its subsidiary Group W Productions, includingThe Merv Griffin Show,The Mike Douglas Show,Evening Magazine, andHour Magazine. It also produced a local program titledPittsburgh Talks.

Later in the 1980s, KDKA-TV carried the early seasons of the syndicatedJeopardy! andWheel of Fortune, though in separate time slots as opposed to the standard practice of airing them back-to-back; the station lost both shows to WPXI in 1988. Channel 2 also aired anotherKing World Productions-distributed program,The Oprah Winfrey Show, during its first nine nationally syndicated seasons (1986–1995), airing the show weekdays at 5 p.m. In 1989, KDKA-TV acquired the rights toThe Sally Jessy Raphael Show, airing it weekdays at 9 a.m. andDonahue weekdays at 4 p.m., respectively. However, due to the poor ratings ofDonahue in the Pittsburgh market, KDKA-TV showed strong interest in new talk shows.

Sally andDonahue moved to WTAE-TV in 1993, and two years later, KDKA-TV debuted a 5 p.m. newscast, at which pointOprah also moved to WTAE-TV, airing at 4 p.m. In 1997,The Ricki Lake Show moved to WPGH-TV andSally returned to KDKA-TV, and once again was given the 9 a.m. time slot, where it remained on and off until its cancellation in 2002.Sally was a success in the Pittsburgh area, even beatingMontel Williams on WPXI in the 1990s. A revamped version ofPittsburgh 2day Live replacedSally.

KDKA-TV airedThe Rosie O'Donnell Show during its entire six-year run at the 4 p.m. time slot. After the show ended its run in 2002, rather than airing its replacement (the short-livedCaroline Rhea Show, which aired on WPXI), KDKA-TV became the first station in the Pittsburgh market to air a 4 p.m. newscast.

From August 2020 to March 2023,Dr. Phil was the only syndicated show airing on KDKA-TV in any capacity outside of the graveyard slot between thepost-late fringe andbreakfast television, as the station aired either CBS network programming or local news throughout the day except for the 3–4 p.m. slot forDr. Phil, with sister station WPKD now airing a heavy syndicated schedule during daytime programming. WithDr. Phil ending its run, rather than expanding its evening newscasts to five hours, KDKA-TV launched a new afternoon talk-show spinoff ofPTL calledTalk Pittsburgh on March 20, 2023.[29]Dr. Phil has since aired on sister station WPKD-TV.

Pittsburgh Steelers

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As CBS holds thebroadcast contract with theNFL to show games involvingAFC teams, KDKA-TV has been the official broadcaster of mostPittsburgh Steelers games since 1998, and serves as the team's flagship station. The team's preseason games that are not nationally televised are also shown on KDKA-TV. KDKA-TV began its relationship with the Steelers in 1962, when CBS first started the leaguewide television package. The Steelers are one of three AFC teams that predate the AFC's basis league, theAmerican Football League, and so KDKA-TV, and not WTAE-TV or WIIC-TV (now WPXI), carried Steelers road games (home games were blacked out locally under all circumstances until 1973, when sold-out home games began to be allowed on local television)—the AFL had television contracts withABC, and later,NBC.

Due to the NFL rules of the time, after theAFL-NFL merger (and with it, the Steelers move to the newly formed AFC), KDKA-TV did not broadcast any Steelers games from 1970 to 1972 (Steeler games were exclusive to what was then WIIC-TV in that period). Beginning in 1973, KDKA-TV was allowed to air any Steelers games in which they hosted a team from theNational Football Conference, which contained most of the old-line NFL teams. KDKA-TV also broadcast two Steeler championship wins,Super Bowl X in 1976 andSuper Bowl XIV in 1980. Since the Steelers have sold out every home game starting in 1972, noblackouts have been required. In the meantime, from 1970 to 1997, channel 11 aired most Steelers games (and exclusively from 1970 to 1972).

When the NFC package moved from CBS toFox in 1994, WPGH-TV aired the Steelers games that had before aired on KDKA-TV, leaving the senior station without Steelers games for four years. Today, and in general since 1970, the only exceptions to all the above are when the Steelers play at night. TheirMonday Night Football games have always aired locally on WTAE-TV, first when ABC had the rights, and since 2006, onESPN. WTAE-TV also aired simulcasts of their games aired as part ofESPN Sunday Night Football from 1987 to 2005 (since 2006, WPXI airs Steelers games when they play onSunday nights). The NFL requires games oncable channels to be simulcast over-the-air in the markets of the participating teams (again with the home team's broadcast subject to blackout). WTAE-TV has simulcast ESPN-aired games because ESPN is 20% owned by WTAE-TV's owners,Hearst Corporation—their ABC stations have right of first refusal for these simulcasts. Games onTNT andNFL Network have aired on various stations in the area.[citation needed] In 2014, with the NFL's new 'cross-flex' broadcast rules, any games that involve the Steelers playing another AFC opponent (or NFC opponent on the road) scheduled to air on KDKA-TV can now air on Fox station WPGH-TV.

News operation

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KDKA-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday,4+12 hours on Saturdays and3+12 hours on Sundays); KDKA-TV also produces 2 hours, 35 minutes of local newscasts each weekday for its independent sister station WPKD-TV, in the form of a two-hour extension of KDKA-TV's weekday morning newscast at 7 a.m., and a nightly 35-minute newscast at 10 p.m.

Under Westinghouse ownership, KDKA-TV used theEyewitness News branding for its newscasts, pioneered by sister station KYW-TV. That, combined with being locally owned, saw the station dominate its local news ratings for decades, though WTAE-TV became more competitive in the 1970s with itsAction News format (which it still uses the branding for today), as well as signing over ex-KDKA-TV talent Paul Long and Don Cannon and a general larger investment in its news department by its owner Hearst Communications.

The 1990s saw many changes to the news department at KDKA-TV, notably Westinghouse's purchase of CBS and moving its headquarters to New York City (thus losing its locally owned status), as well as KDKA-TV losing its flagship station status toWCBS-TV andKCBS-TV. Additionally, theEyewitness News branding was dropped on April 22, 1996, in favor of simplyKDKA-TV News.[30] By this point, WPXI had become more competitive with KDKA-TV and WTAE-TV due to its own investment into the news department back in the 1980s by its ownerCox Media Group, leading to a spirited three-way battle for first place in a market KDKA-TV once dominated.

On November 1997, KDKA-TV and thePittsburgh Post-Gazette launched a weekly public affairs program calledKD/PG Sunday Edition.[31] It succeded thePost-Gazette's showThe Editors, produced byWQED, which was discontinued in the summer of 1997.[32]

In 2001, KDKA-TV began producing a 10 p.m. newscast on WNPA (now WPKD-TV);[33] in 2005, it added a two-hour weekday morning newscast from 7 to 9 a.m. on that station[34] (which was later reduced to one hour from 7 to 8 a.m., but in 2019 the 8 a.m. hour was restored).

On June 16, 2009, KDKA-TV began broadcasting its local newscasts inhigh definition.

In January 2019, the station fired an employee who programmed alower third graphic to refer toNew England PatriotsquarterbackTom Brady as a "known cheater" during a report onSuper Bowl LIII.[35][36]

KDKA-TV launched a streaming news service, CBSN Pittsburgh (a localized version of the national CBSN service) on March 5, 2020, as part of a rollout of similar services across the CBS-owned stations.[37] It was rebranded toCBS News Pittsburgh in early 2022.

On August 17, 2020, KDKA premiered a new weekday news program at 7:30 p.m., replacingExtra, which is still seen overnights. This competes against WTAE-TV's 7 p.m. newscast on its Cozi TV subchannel, leaving KDKA-TV the only station in the Pittsburgh market to air a newscast during thePrime Time Access Hour on its main signal. On January 8, 2024, KDKA-TV premiered an 8 p.m. newscast on WPKD to replaceCW network programming after Paramount Global's deal withNexstar Media Group. KDKA-TV aired its final 8 p.m. newscast on WPKD on July 25, 2025.

Notable current on-air staff

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Notable former on-air staff

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Technical information

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Subchannels

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The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KDKA-TV[39]
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
2.11080i16:9KDKA-HDCBS
2.2480iStartTVStart TV
2.3DABLDabl
2.4FAVEFave TV
2.5CatchyCatchy Comedy

Analog-to-digital conversion

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KDKA-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, overVHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate, during that night's broadcast of theLate Show with David Letterman. The station showed theHigh Flight video clip, and a compilation of their analog history with "The Star-Spangled Banner" as background music, before signing off withDuMonttest card and original name.[40] As part of theSAFER Act, KDKA-TV kept its analog signal on the air until July 12 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop ofpublic service announcements from theNational Association of Broadcasters. On June 17, 2009, during the nightlight period, KDKA-TV temporarily resumed regular programming to air severe weather coverage.[41] The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transitionUHF channel 25, usingvirtual channel 2.[42]

In July 2009, the station applied to the FCC to operate two repeater signals: channel 31 inMorgantown, West Virginia, and channel 40 in Johnstown.[43]

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