KDKA-TV History
KDKA-TV is the CBS owned & operated television station for Pittsburgh.
KDKA-TV signed on the air on January 11, 1949 as WDTV, Channel 3. WDTV was a DuMont television station. In 1952, WDTV switched to Channel 2.
A few years later, the station became owned by Westinghouse and changed to the call letters KDKA-TV. It was also then that KDKA-TV became a CBS affiliate.
In 1995, KDKA-TV became a CBS owned and operated station. Viacom merged with CBS in the year 2000, which made KDKA a sister station with UPN affiliate WNPA-TV.
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