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KCBS-TV (channel 2) is a
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in
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, United States, serving as the
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of the
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network. It is
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by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside
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outlet KCAL-TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios at the CBS Studio Center on Radford Avenue in the
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section of Los Angeles, while KCBS-TV's
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is located on the western side of Mount Wilson near Occidental Peak. Aside from being affiliated with
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, since 2017, KCBS-TV has had no connection to KCBS radio (740 AM) in
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. The 2017 sale to Entercom (now
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) of KCBS radio and
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(93.1) in Los Angeles ended almost seven decades of co-ownership among the three stations under CBS.


History


Early years (1931–1948)

KCBS-TV is the oldest continuously operating television station in the western United States. It was signed on by Don Lee Broadcasting, which owned a chain of radio stations on the Pacific coast, and was first licensed by the
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(FRC), forerunner of the
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(FCC), as experimental television station W6XAO in June 1931. The station went on the air on December 23, 1931, and by March 1933 was broadcasting programming one hour each day on Mondays through Saturdays. The station used a mechanical camera, which broadcast only film footage in an 80-line image, but used all-electronic receivers as early as 1932. It went off the air in 1935, and then reappeared using an improved mechanical camera producing a 300-line image in June 1936. By August 1937, W6XAO had programming six days each week, with live programming starting in April 1938. By 1939, the station used a fully electronic system and the image quality was improved to 441 lines. At the time, an optimistic estimate of the station's viewership was 1,500 people. Many of the receiver sets were built by television hobbyists, though commercially made sets were available in Los Angeles. The station's six-day weekly schedule consisted of live talent on four nights, and
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on two nights. By 1942, there were an estimated 400–500 television sets in the Los Angeles area, with Don Lee Broadcasting placing television receivers at the following public places: Wilshire
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, Kiefer's Pine Knot Drive-In,
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Brown Derby,
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,
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(
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),
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and The Town House on Wilshire Boulevard. During World War II, programming was reduced to three hours, every other Monday. The station's frequency was switched from Channel 1 to Channel 2 in March 1946 when the FCC decided to reserve Channel 1 for low-power
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stations, before eliminating it completely. The station was granted a commercial license (the second in California, behind
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) as KM2XBD, but calling it KTSL, on May 6, 1948 (and officially changed the call sign to KTSL on October 9, 1950), and was named for Thomas S. Lee, the son of Don Lee. The station became affiliated with the
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later that year. KTSL also launched Peter Potter's '' Jukebox Jury'' that year, a musical/quiz series that began to be broadcast nationally during the 1953–1954 season on
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. Many later well-known entertainers appeared on the program to judge the latest releases from the recording companies.


CBS acquisition (1949–1984)

Starting in 1949, CBS had been affiliated with
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(channel 11, now a
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owned-and-operated station), a station in which the network held a 49% minority ownership stake. Don Lee's broadcasting interests were placed for sale in 1950 following the death of Thomas S. Lee. General Tire and Rubber agreed to purchase all of Don Lee's stations, the centerpiece being KHJ radio, but chose to spin-off KTSL to CBS. Subsequently, CBS sold its share in KTTV to the station's majority partner, the ''
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'', and all CBS programming moved to KTSL on January 1, 1951. On October 28, 1951, KTSL changed its callsign to KNXT (presumably meaning "KNX Television") to coincide with CBS' Los Angeles radio outlet, KNX (1070 AM). The station also moved its transmitter from Mount Lee, where it had been based since its experimental days, to Mount Wilson.


As KCBS-TV (1984–present)

On April 2, 1984, at noon, KNXT changed its call letters to the present KCBS-TV. The former KNXT call letters were later used by an unrelated TV station (now KIFR) in
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from 1986 to 2021. In 1997, it adopted the "CBS2" moniker for its on-air image, following the lead of sister stations
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in
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and
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in
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. For a time during the 1980s and 1990s, KNXT/KCBS-TV had several locally produced programs such as ''2 on the Town'', a local show similar to ''
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'' and
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's ''Eye on L.A.'', and ''KidQuiz'', a Saturday morning children's
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hosted by longtime weathercaster Maclovio Perez (for a time in the mid-2000s, its sister station KCAL-TV had broadcast a show called ''9 on the Town''). In 2002, KCBS-TV became a sister station to KCAL-TV after the latter was purchased by
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from
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. On April 21, 2007, KCBS and KCAL moved from the historic
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in Hollywood to an all-digital facility at the CBS Studio Center in
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. With the move, KTLA became the only broadcast station (either in radio or television) in Los Angeles to be based in Hollywood. KCBS-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, and switched to
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service at 1:10 p.m. on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.List of Digital Full-Power Stations
The station moved its digital signal from its pre-transition UHF channel 60, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to UHF channel 43, using
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to display KCBS-TV
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as 2 on digital television receivers. On October 21, 2014, CBS and
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announced the launch of a new
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service called
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, scheduled to launch on all CBS-owned stations in the second quarter of 2015, including on KCBS-TV on channel 2.2. On September 3, 2018, Decades was replaced on 2.2 by
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with Decades moving to Weigel's
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. On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and
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remerged into ViacomCBS (now
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).


Programming


Syndicated programming

In addition to the CBS network schedule, syndicated programs on KCBS-TV (as of September 2020) include ''
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'', '' Dr. Phil'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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'', all of which are distributed by corporate cousin
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.


Sports programming

In 1956,
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began broadcasting NFL games, and with it, the Los Angeles Rams had their games aired on Channel 2. This alliance would continue through the
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, when
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took over the rights to broadcast
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games, which led to KTTV being the new home station for one season in
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, before the Rams moved to
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. With the Rams' return to Los Angeles in 2016, Channel 2 will air games in which the Rams play host to an AFC opponent, and any cross-flexed games aired by CBS; the station previously aired Rams preseason games from 2016 to 2019, and intermittently in past years during the team's first stay in greater Los Angeles. From 1982 to 1993, Channel 2 also aired all home inter-conference games of the Raiders during their time in Los Angeles including their win in
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. The station also gave coverage to Super Bowl XIV, which the Rams were runners-up in, and Super Bowl XXI, both of which were hosted at the Rose Bowl in nearby
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. As the first Super Bowl was held at the
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, and was televised nationally on both CBS (the exclusive home of the pre-merger NFL at the time) and NBC (the home network of the
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), the game was blacked out locally on KNXT and KNBC (channel 4), due to home-game blackout policies that both leagues had at the time (and carried over into the leagues' merger in 1970) that did not allow home games to be shown locally regardless of whether the game was sold out, and this policy also extended to the host city of the Super Bowl game; starting with the 1973 season, the blackout rules were relaxed; home games were allowed to be televised in the local market, so long as the game sold out 72 hours in advance (the blackout rules were lifted completely in 2015). In 2017, the station became the unofficial "home" station of the NFL's Chargers franchise, which announced on January 12, 2017, that it had exercised an option to leave its longtime home of
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and join the Rams in Los Angeles; the newly relocated and rechristened
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are part of the AFC, and therefore most of their games (the vast majority of road games, home games against AFC opponents and select games cross-flexed from Fox) are carried by CBS. Because Los Angeles was previously a secondary market of the Chargers during their time in San Diego, the station was already under requirement to carry the team's road games. KCBS was scheduled to resume carriage of Chargers preseason games starting with the 2020 season, however with the
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affecting the United States, preseason games across the NFL were cancelled and not rescheduled; KCBS ended up broadcasting the Chargers' 2021 preseason games. The station previously televised Charger preseason games from 2002 to 2015. Sports director Jim Hill, a former Charger, was a sportscaster for
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during his first stint at KNXT/KCBS-TV, from 1976 to 1987. Hill then left to become sports director at KABC-TV, but returned to KCBS-TV in 1992 and has remained sports director at the station since. Other ex-athletes who are also sportscasters for KCBS and KCAL-TV are
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,
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,
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and
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. From 1973 to
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, the station aired
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games via the ''
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''; this included eight
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appearances by the Lakers during their
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era, where they came out victorious five times. Through CBS' contract with Major League Baseball, select
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and
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games aired on Channel 2 from 1990 to 1993.


News operation

KCBS-TV presently broadcasts 30 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 hours, 5 minutes each weekday and 2½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). On December 5, 2022 sister station KCAL-TV took over all news operations, which ditched the morning news programming on KCBS-TV's 4-7am schedule and instead put news programming on KCAL-TV's 4-7an schedule for the first time in KCAL-TV's history. ViacomCBS additionally ditched the station's channel numbers for news program and branded all newscasts as "KCAL News" on both stations.


News department history

In 1961, KNXT created one of the nation's first "newshours." It began with 45 minutes of local news, ''The Big News'', which featured
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, along with legendary weatherman
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and sportscaster
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. It aired from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. weeknights, leading into the then-15-minute-long ''
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'', which completed the news hour. Also featured were special assignment reporter Maury Green and "Human Predicament" essayist
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. The team and format helped make KNXT the top-rated news station in Los Angeles. At times, a quarter of Los Angeles television sets were tuned to ''The Big News'' and its late-evening companion, ''Eleven O'Clock Report'', the highest ratings ever for a television newscast in the area. The station eventually added reporters such as Howard Gingold and Saul Helpert, among others, and added news bureaus in
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,
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and Orange County, each with full-time correspondents and camera crews. ''The Big News'' expanded to a full hour in September 1963, leading into the new half-hour-long ''CBS Evening News''. Color broadcasts of ''The Big News'' and ''Eleven O'Clock Report'' began in August 1966. Eventually, KNXT expanded to 2½ hours of local news programming, as well as a late night newscast. KNBC went head-to-head with KNXT with viewers during the 1960s. However, in the mid-1970s, rival KABC-TV began gaining ground in the local news ratings at KNXT's expense. In 1975, KNXT fired Dunphy (who was quickly hired by KABC) and was replaced by Patrick Emory, who had anchored at then-CBS owned-and-operated station KMOX-TV (now
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) in St. Louis. KNXT then adopted a format similar to KABC-TV's '' Eyewitness News'' with its "happy talk" between anchors. However, the change went nowhere. Just as most of its fellow CBS-owned stations were dominating their cities' ratings, KNXT rapidly fell into last place. For most of the period from 1975 to 2006, KNXT/KCBS-TV was not a major competitor in the Los Angeles television ratings among the area's local television newscasts. During the period, Channel 2 had frequently changed newscast titles (from ''The Big News/Eleven O'Clock Report'' to ''Channel 2 News'' in 1973, then to ''Newsroom'' in 1976 and back to ''Channel 2 News'' by 1978) and formats to styles that often became unsuccessful and even controversial. In September 1986, Channel 2 implemented a news-wheel format for its 4–6:30 p.m. news block, with each hour of news beginning with a 20-minute newscast, followed by two 20-minute programs devoted to certain topics and themes (for example, there was entertainment and lifestyle news early on and harder news stories later in the program), concluding with a half hour-long local news report; this format was heavily panned by critics and audiences alike, and was dropped after only a month in favor of standard newscasts. As part of the aforementioned changes, from 1986 to 1987, KCBS produced a 7 p.m. newscast, airing ''CBS Evening News'' immediately beforehand at 6:30 p.m. KCBS was also the last station in the Los Angeles area to offer a local early evening newscast at 6:30 p.m., when its 6 p.m. newscast ran for an hour during that time period; CW affiliate KTLA later launched a newscast in that timeslot in January 2009. KCBS produced late afternoon newscasts at 4 p.m. at various points in time. It was the first in the Southland region with a 4:30 p.m. newscast, that was later expanded to an hour. The late 1980s and early 1990s brought to KCBS the '' Action News'' format, in which the station's newscast adopted a tabloid-style format; the format grated on the news staff, which circulated a memo that resulted in the firing of
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John Lippmann in 1993. Lippmann was heavily criticized by many, and reportedly had many confrontations with news staff, notably a shoving match between him and anchor Michael Tuck. The station's ratings quickly declined. CBS management, highly embarrassed at KCBS-TV's subpar performance, responded by bringing in Bill Applegate as general manager. Applegate had previously served as general manager at Chicago sister station WBBM-TV, and was employed at that station as a reporter in the early 1970s. While Applegate had been criticized for making WBBM-TV's newscasts flashier than they had been previously, he set about toning down the format of KCBS-TV's newscasts. One of his strategies involved bringing in popular anchors and reporters from other Los Angeles area stations including Jerry Dunphy, who returned to channel 2 two decades after his earlier firing from the station (Dunphy went on to anchor at KABC-TV and KCAL-TV, both of whom achieved high ratings for their newscasts during each of Dunphy's stints). Also joining Dunphy were colleagues Ann Martin, Dr. George Fischbeck, Paul Dandridge and Mark Coogan from KABC-TV, and Larry Carroll (who worked with Dunphy at KABC and KCAL); two KNBC personalities, Linda Alvarez and consumer reporter
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also joined the team. The station's ratings improved, but Applegate eventually became a casualty of CBS' merger with the
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in 1996; Applegate had bickered with Westinghouse over the station's syndicated programming not long after he had arrived. Westinghouse executives never forgot this, and Applegate was one of the first executives to be let go. Channel 2's momentum ground to a halt, and it soon dropped into last place. The ''Action News'' branding was dropped in late 1996 and the station's newscasts were briefly reverted to ''Channel 2 News''; it was later renamed to the present ''CBS 2 News'' in spring 1997. Dunphy, who was dismissed from KCBS in March 1996 because of the aforementioned CBS merger with Westinghouse, returned to KCAL in November 1997. KCBS dropped its 4 p.m. newscast in 1998 in favor of the short-lived syndicated talk program ''
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'', which was canceled after its first season, then, in 1999, the ''Women 2 Women'' public affairs show. After Viacom's purchase of KCAL-TV, KCBS reintroduced the 4 p.m. newscast, but with it now airing exclusively on KCAL. KCBS-TV began another attempt to get out of the ratings basement at the start of the 21st century.
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'', joined KCBS to become its morning co-anchor in 2000. The station then hired longtime KABC anchor Harold Greene in 2001 as anchor of its 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts. The following year, Greene was joined by his former partner at KABC,
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. In 2004, Paul Magers, longtime anchor at
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, replaced Greene on the 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts, bumping Greene to the 4 and 6 p.m. programs. The 4 p.m. newscast moved to KCAL-TV with the arrival of ''Dr. Phil'' on KCBS in September 2004. At the beginning of 2005, longtime KABC weatherman Johnny Mountain moved to KCBS, surprising many. At first, it seemed that none of these changes brought KCBS any closer to becoming a factor in the Los Angeles news ratings. However, in April 2006, KCBS grabbed the No. 2 spot at 5 p.m. from KABC due to a strong lead-in from ''Dr. Phil''. KCBS shot past both KABC and KNBC to take first place at 11 p.m. for the first time in 30 years. The 2007 move to Studio City marked many changes at KCBS and KCAL-TV, with several news personalities having departed, including David Jackson (who returned to the duopoly after anchoring at KCAL in the early 1990s), Kerry Kilbride, reporter Jay Jackson, Paul Dandridge, Dilva Henry, Linda Alvarez, sports anchor Alan Massengale and Dave Clark (who left for
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). Both stations also began broadcasting all their local newscasts, sports shows and public affairs programming in high definition, becoming the third and fourth stations in Los Angeles to do so (following KABC-TV in February 2006 and KTLA in January 2007). In addition, KCBS and KCAL-TV now operate in a completely tapeless newsroom. This newsroom is named in honor of the late former anchor of both stations, Jerry Dunphy. The Dunphy Newsroom is also shared with
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, operating as its Los Angeles/West Coast bureau. On April 1, 2008, the
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division enacted some of the biggest budget cuts in television history, as well as staff layoffs across all of its stations. As a result of the cuts, roughly 10 to 15 staffers were released by KCBS/KCAL. The 6 p.m. anchors Harold Greene and Ann Martin, who both also anchored KCAL-TV's 4 p.m. newscast, chose to retire from television news (Greene and Martin were slated to have their contracts expire in June of that year and were both considered for layoffs). Additionally, longtime KCBS reporter Jennifer Sabih, and reporters Greg Phillips and Jennifer Davis, were let go by the station.


=NewsCentral era

= On September 19, 2009, KCBS and KCAL adopted the uniform ''NewsCentral'' brand (unrelated to the news organization of the same name formerly operated by
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). The newscasts were refocused to cover more community news, including stories from outlying communities. Local news headlines from the
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and other MediaNews Group newspapers were shown on a news ticker, "street team" submissions of video and photos from viewers were featured, reporters ended stories with ''NewsCentral'' rather than the individual station brands, and microphone flags and news vehicles were branded to show both stations' logos at once (the KCBS and KCAL logos were previously displayed on alternating sides). The newscasts claimed that it produced more local news than any other television station in the United States, with reporters in
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, and the only Los Angeles television station with two helicopters (subcontracted to Angel City Air, owned by reporter Larry Welk).
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introduced the new newscast. CBS denied that the move was made in response to other stations pooling news gathering resources. Ratings under the new format during the November 2009 sweeps showed KCBS lagging behind KABC-TV and KNBC in crucial timeslots. On December 10, 2009, Patrick McClenehan resigned after one year as president of KCBS/KCAL and was replaced by Steve Mauldin, who had overseen the CBS-owned duopoly in
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. That week, the ''NewsCentral'' brand was rescinded, restoring the ''CBS 2 News'' and ''KCAL 9 News'' identities. The NewsCentral graphics, microphone flags and logos were retained in the interim, though on-air talent no longer referred to the ''NewsCentral'' brand.


=2010–2022

= By spring 2010, the new management had made significant changes to KCBS' news operation. Veteran forecaster Johnny Mountain retired and was replaced by sister KCAL's Jackie Johnson; joining anchor Paul Magers on the lead newscasts was KCAL veteran Pat Harvey. The morning broadcast was also revamped, and the newly renamed ''CBS 2 News'' was given new graphic design and theme music by
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based on the longstanding ten-note logo originally written by
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and previously used by KCBS on-and-off since the 1970s. The August 3, 2011, edition of the ''CBS Evening News'' with
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was produced live from the Dunphy Newsroom, being the first CBS national newscast to originate from the Studio City facility. On January 14, 2012, KCBS (and sister KCAL) began broadcasting morning newscasts on weekends, that compete with those offered by KABC-TV, KNBC and KTLA. The station was one of the last major-market CBS-owned affiliates to schedule local news broadcasts on Saturday and Sunday mornings. In June 2019, CBS News launched a Los Angeles version of its
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online news network, featuring exclusive programming to the channel, as well as simulcasts of all KCBS and KCAL newscasts, and selected CBS News programs. This is the second cable/streaming news channel targeted to the Los Angeles area currently in operation, besides the cable-based Spectrum News 1 Southern California, which launched in November 2018. The Los Angeles television market's first cable news network was the
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, which was in operation from 1990 to 2001, although it was only available and specifically targeted to cable viewers within that county; in OCN's final years, KCBS was a news partner with the channel, with OCN reporters and stories featured on various KCBS newscasts, including a headlines segment on Channel 2's morning newscasts.


=2022–present

= On July 13, 2022, it was announced that KCAL would launch a new morning newscast, running from 4:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and that KCBS would drop its existing morning newscast. As a replacement, KCBS would air the live East Coast broadcast of ''
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'' from 4 to 6 a.m. PT, followed by a simulcast of the 6 a.m. hour of KCAL's morning show, and then the West Coast edition of ''CBS Mornings''. CBS News and Stations president Wendy McMahon referred to the changes as "an audience growth opportunity", citing that KCAL's early morning lineup had largely consisted of paid programming, and that the changes would provide additional options for both local and national news to viewers. Concurrently, it was also revealed that CBS planned to promote KCAL as the main local news outlet of its Los Angeles duopoly, with all of its newscasts to eventually be simulcast from KCAL.


Notable current on-air staff

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 – anchor


=Sports on-air team

= * Jim Hill – sports director


Notable former on-air staff

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Subchannels

The station's digital signal is
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KNX (AM) KNX (1070 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Los Angeles, California. It airs an all-news radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc. KNX is one of the oldest stations in the United States, having received its first broadcasting license, ...
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KCBS-FM KCBS-FM (93.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, serving Greater Los Angeles. It is owned by Audacy, Inc., and broadcasts an adult hits music format branded as "93.1 Jack FM". Unlike most radio stations airing t ...
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KCBS-TV/FM Tower KCBS-TV/FM Tower (formerly the KNXT/KNX-FM Tower) is a 296.4 meter (972 ft) high guyed radio/television tower on Mount Wilson above Los Angeles (near the Mount Wilson Observatory) at 123 CBS Lane.FCC Antenna Structure RegistrationApplication ...


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Photos of KCBS's news set

KCBS-TV logos and screenshots from 1950s to the present day

FCC History Cards for KCBS-TV
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