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WBBM-TV (CBS2) is the Chicago-based owned & operated station of the CBS television network. It is Chicago's oldest TV station, beginning operations on July 1, 1946 as WBKB Channel 4. On February 10, 1953, Balaban & Katz, the station's owners, sold WBKB to CBS for $6 million. CBS changed the station's call letters to WBBM-TV just two days later.
Later in 1953, on July 5th, as part of a situation that involved three stations: WBBM, WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, and WKZO-TV (now WWMT) in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the FCC changed the channel allocation of WBBM-TV from Channel 4 to 2, WTMJ relocated from 3 to 4, and WKZO remained at 3. This was done to free up interference issues between WTMJ and WKZO. In March 1956, the CBS Chicago stations (WBBM-AM/TV/FM) moved into its present home on North McClurg Court in downtown Chicago.
WBBM was the #1 news station in the Chicagoland area for the 1970s through the mid-80s, when that spot was taken by ABC's WLS-TV Channel 7. Much like its CBS sister stations in New York and Los Angeles, it currently sits #3 in the local news race behind its NBC and ABC counterparts.
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