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CBS Television Stations

Company type	Division of CBS Corporation
Industry	Television
Founded	May 24, 2000
Headquarters	New York City, USA
Key people	Peter Dunn, President
Owner	CBS Corporation
Website	Website

The CBS Television Stations are a group of American television stations owned by CBS Corporation. As of 2012, CBS Corporation owns 28 stations, broken down as follows: 14 are the key stations of the CBS Television Network (plus two satellites); nine are aligned with the CW Television Network, which is co-owned by CBS with Time Warner; two independent stations; two stations affiliated with MyNetworkTV, and one low-power outlet carrying MTV Tr3s programming.

The group was founded on May 24, 2000, after the merger of Viacom and the previous CBS Corporation, as the Viacom Television Stations Group; it was a merger of the Paramount Stations Group with CBS's owned and operated stations division. It was rebranded to its current name on January 3, 2006, after Viacom split itself into two publicly traded companies. However, the "new" Viacom is still controlled by National Amusements.

Due to the CBS Mandate which requires CBS O&Os to identify themselves as "CBS ", many CBS TV stations share the same logo and branding setup. The local channels may also personalize their ID by adding their call sign and/ or location as in the case of New York City's WCBS. However, some stations have abandoned use of the standardized CBS Mandate system and have their own identity, such as Boston's WBZ.

Stations

Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.

Notes:

1) Two boldface asterisks appearing following the call letters (**) indicates WCBS-TV as the only station built and signed-on by CBS;

2) Two boldface plus signs appearing following a station's call letters (++) indicate a station that was owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting prior to its acquisition of CBS in 1995;

3) Two boldface hashmarks appearing following a station's call letters (##) indicate a station that was owned by the original Viacom prior to its acquisition of CBS in 2000.

Current

Former

• Co-owned with the Los Angeles Times in a joint venture (49% owned by CBS, 51% owned by the Times).
• Co-owned with the Washington Post in a joint venture (45% owned by CBS, 55% owned by the Post).

References

1. CBS Buying WLNY New York, TVNewsCheck, December 12, 2011.
2. WLNY/Ch. 10/55 to suspend newscasts March 29 as part of merger deal with WCBS/Ch. 2, New York Daily News, March 15, 2012.

See also

• TVX Broadcast Group
• Paramount Stations Group

External links

• CBS Corporation: CBS Television Stations

• Media companies based in New York City
• Television broadcasting companies of the United States
• CBS Corporation subsidiaries