88-517: CBS News and Stations is a division of the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global that owns and operates a group of American television stations along with CBS News . As of January 2021, the division owns 28 stations: 14 are the core stations of the CBS television network, two are affiliates of The CW , eleven are independent stations , and one is a primary-channel affiliate of
176-541: A 2021 college football matchup between Illinois and Nebraska was moved to KPLR due to KTVI's obligation to air Green Bay Packers preseason games. KPLR-TV served as the home broadcaster of MLB 's St. Louis Cardinals (for two stints from 1959 to 1962 and 1988 to 2006 ), the NBA 's St. Louis Hawks ( 1959 – 1968 ) and the NHL 's St. Louis Blues (for three stints from 1967 to 1976 , 1982–83 and 1986 to April 21, 2009 ,
264-707: A 50% interest, partnering with the Los Angeles Times . CBS then sold its interest in KTTV (now the West Coast flagship of the Fox network) and purchased outright Los Angeles pioneer station KTSL in 1950, renaming it KNXT (after CBS's existing Los Angeles radio property, KNX), later to become KCBS-TV . In 1953, CBS bought pioneer television station WBKB in Chicago, which had been signed on by former investor Paramount Pictures (and would become
352-764: A CBS affiliate until January 1, 1989. After CBS failed to secure an affiliation with outgoing NBC affiliate WSVN , the network bought WCIX and moved all network programming there as part of a larger six-station, two-market affiliation swap . CBS's ownership of WCIX was generally regarded as a failure due to the station's signal and technical deficiencies, with then-station group president Howard Stringer telling local media in July 1989, "we can never be better than third". CBS then acquired Midwest Communications in 1992, which owned WCCO-TV in Minneapolis and WFRV-TV in Green Bay. In 1994,
440-508: A blend of animated and live-action children's shows (including shows acquired via the syndication market as well as The Disney Afternoon block). For many years, even after joining The WB, KPLR was branded on-air as "St. Louis 11", often using a logo with the "O" in "St. Louis" converted into its "circle 11" numeric logo. At one point, KPLR almost picked up Fox Kids since KTVI (which was a part of an affiliation agreement between Fox and New World Communications ) declined to carry it, but Fox Kids
528-861: A buyer for seven smaller-market stations, including CBS-owned-and-operated stations KUTV in Salt Lake City and KEYE-TV in Austin, Texas; and The CW affiliates WTVX in Fort Pierce, Florida, and WLWC in New Bedford, Massachusetts . Also including were KUSG (now KMYU ) in St. George, Utah, which served as satellite station of KUTV; and WTCN-CA and WWHB-CA , the sister stations to WTVX. The sale with Four Points closed on January 10, 2008. In 2009 and 2010, three managers at its New York City station, WCBS-TV, were named CBS Television Stations executives while continuing to manage at
616-511: A charter affiliate of The WB (a venture between Time Warner and Chicago -based Tribune Broadcasting ), marking the first time it maintained an affiliation with a broadcast television network. Koplar had reached a deal to affiliate with The WB in November 1993, more than a year before the network's launch. The WB offered prime time programs only on Wednesday evenings during its first half-season of operation, but would gradually evolve into offering
704-701: A condition of the channel 4 purchase, the FCC required CBS to relinquish the channel 11 license and construction permit. CBS did so by transferring it to the Koplar group, known as "220 Television, Incorporated", for no financial consideration. Almost immediately, the three-way deal was held up after the St. Louis Amusement Company, one of the original applicants for channel 11, protested to the United States Court of Appeals in January 1958. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately upheld
792-556: A contractual clause that forced Chris-Craft Industries to either buy Viacom out of UPN, or have the former sell its ownership stake in the network to Viacom. On March 20, 2000, Chris-Craft allowed Viacom to buy out its 50% stake, giving Viacom full control of the network. However on August 12 of that year, Fox Television Stations outbid Viacom for Chris-Craft's UPN stations. Viacom then took full control of UPN affiliates WTVX in Fort Pierce, Florida, and WLWC in New Bedford, Massachusetts , from Straightline Communications in 2001, after
880-493: A deal to re-affiliate with The CW on September 1, 2024, alongside first-time affiliate WBFS-TV in Miami; both stations are in markets where the previous CW affiliate had been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company , which announced plans to drop The CW from its stations in that timeframe. Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license . This list also contains stations that were owned and operated by CBS prior to
968-635: A duopoly with CBS-owned KCBS, which broadcasting industry observers also speculated was done to use as possible future leverage against UPN affiliate KCOP-TV , another former Chris-Craft station owned by Fox. In 2005, Viacom bought CBS-affiliate KOVR in Sacramento, resulting in another duopoly with UPN-owned-and-operated KMAX-TV . Viacom also purchased the low-powered stations WTCN-CA and WWHB-CA , integrating their local operations with WTVX. Viacom also sold some of their stations, creating duopolies for their new owners instead. The UPN-owned-and-operated WUPL
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#17328561823131056-630: A duopoly with NBC affiliate KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City. Viacom Television Stations Group was then rebranded to CBS Television Stations on January 3, 2006, three days after Viacom split itself into two publicly traded companies, the second incarnations of CBS Corporation and Viacom , both of which remained controlled by National Amusements . On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that it would shut down UPN and competitor The WB to launch The CW later that September. The formation of The CW to replace both UPN and The WB triggered
1144-523: A gutted complex where the station had been the only major tenant into a boutique hotel) to a new purpose-built studio facility in Maryland Heights. On January 24, 2006, UPN parent company CBS Corporation (which split from Viacom in December 2005) and WB network parent Time Warner (through its Warner Bros. Entertainment division) announced that they would dissolve the two networks to create The CW ,
1232-507: A joint network venture that initially featured a mix of original first-run series and programs that originated on The WB and UPN. The network signed a ten-year affiliation agreement with Tribune Broadcasting for 16 of the 19 WB affiliates that the company owned at the time, including KPLR. Nearly one month after the CW launch announcement, on February 22, 2006, News Corporation subsidiaries Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television announced
1320-662: A local marketing agreement with Fox affiliate KTVI effective October 1, as a result of the formation of a "broadcast management company" that was created to provide management services to stations owned by both Tribune Broadcasting and KTVI owner Local TV . Although KTVI was the senior partner in the deal, it vacated its longtime studios in the Clayton-Tamm/Dogtown neighborhood on St. Louis' west side and moved its operations to KPLR's Maryland Heights facility. The LMA resulted in both stations combining their news departments and sharing certain syndicated programs. On November 1, 2008,
1408-507: A long-term affiliation agreement announced between New World and then-Fox network parent News Corporation on May 23, 1994. Channel 11 station management would later turn the offer down; ABC instead reached an agreement with River City Broadcasting in August 1994 to shift the affiliation to outgoing Fox affiliate KDNL, which swapped network affiliations with KTVI on August 7, 1995. Upon that network's launch, on January 11, 1995, KPLR-TV became
1496-575: A multi-year affiliation drama in Miami, Florida , in the 1980s. Long-standing affiliate WTVJ (channel 4) in Miami (along with most of the Storer Communications chain) was to have been sold to Lorimar-Telepictures in May 1986, but that deal fell apart when CBS inquired with ownership of WCIX (channel 6) about a possible purchase. WTVJ was sold to NBC in January 1987, but contractually obligated to be run as
1584-399: A new anchor desk. Both stations now share the set but KPLR has a separate weather center. They also introduced new graphics and music package for both stations the same day. In mid-2019, both stations introduced The Power of Two: Midday , replacing Fox 2 News Midday and News 11 at Noon . The program is aired live at 11 a.m. on KTVI and KPLR. On January 30, 2020, both stations introduced
1672-456: A new graphics package and music package for each station. KPLR's simulcasts with KTVI uses the same music package, "Beyond", while KPLR-specific newscasts use "Inergy", both were created by Stephen Arnold Music. In spring 2020, both stations introduced The Power of Two at 6 am , which is simulcast on KTVI and KPLR. While branded for both stations, it is largely targeted towards the KTVI audience, as it
1760-629: A newly remodeled studio (which contained pieces from the KTVI's former "Studio B" set, along with a modernized news desk and a state-of-the-art weather center) that is located adjacent to the main news set now occupied by KTVI. Since KPLR and KTVI's news departments merged, there has been considerable sharing between the two stations in regards to news coverage, video footage and the use of reporters, although both outlets maintain their own primary on-air personalities (such as news and sports anchors) that only appear on one station. On April 6, 2009, KPLR debuted an hour-long midday newscast at noon on weekdays. This
1848-585: A secondary affiliation in September of that year; WRBU then became a primary UPN affiliate on April 1, 2003. On December 30, 2002, Tribune Broadcasting announced it would purchase KPLR-TV and sister station KWBP in Portland, Oregon , from ACME Communications for $ 275 million; the sale was finalized on March 21, 2003. Also in 2003, KPLR moved its studios from the Chase Park Plaza (which by that time, went from
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#17328561823131936-756: A sister company to CBS again decades later) as a commercial station in 1946, and changed that station's call sign to WBBM-TV , moving the CBS affiliation away from WGN-TV . The network bought Washington, D.C. affiliate WOIC (now WUSA ) in a joint venture with The Washington Post in 1950, only to sell its stake to the Post in 1954 due to tighter FCC ownership regulations. CBS would also temporarily rely on UHF technology by owning WXIX in Milwaukee (now CW affiliate WVTV ) and WHCT in Hartford (now Univision affiliate WUVN ), but as UHF
2024-609: A six-night-a-week schedule by September 1999; as such, for its first few years as a WB affiliate, KPLR continued to fill the 7–9 p.m. time slot with feature films and some first-run syndicated programs on nights when the network did not offer programming. During this period, alongside WB prime time programming and eventually animated series from the Kids' WB children's program block, KPLR carried recent and some older off-network sitcoms and drama series, movies on weekends as well as in prime time on weekdays, some first-run syndicated shows, and
2112-639: A station who would agree to replace New World's WAGA in Atlanta, and therefore bought UHF station WVEU (now WUPA ) out of desperation, even though WVEU had the lowest ratings and the weakest signal out of Atlanta's full-power stations. However, late in November 1994, WGNX (now WANF ) changed their minds and agreed to affiliate with CBS, and so CBS ended up selling WVEU to Viacom in May 1995. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation , through its Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W) division, sought an affiliation deal of its own, and after several months of negotiations with
2200-602: A third party to comply with ownership rules and alleviate potential antitrust issues. The deal received significant scrutiny over Sinclair's forthrightness in its applications to sell certain conflict properties, prompting the FCC to designate it for hearing and leading Tribune to terminate the deal and sue Sinclair for breach of contract . Following the Sinclair deal's collapse, Nexstar Media Group of Irving, Texas , announced its purchase of Tribune Media on December 3, 2018, for $ 6.4 billion in cash and debt. The sale
2288-462: A transaction which closed in late 1995. CBS had also bought WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island in early 1995 prior to the deal closing; at the time, the FCC normally did not allow common ownership of multiple stations with overlapping coverage areas, so WPRI was sold off in favor of Westinghouse's WBZ. Following the completion of the CBS takeover, the former Westinghouse Broadcasting operations took on
2376-401: Is co-owned by CBS and Weigel, with Weigel being responsible for distribution to stations outside CBS Television Stations. It airs programs from the extensive library of CBS Television Distribution , including archival footage from CBS News . On July 18, 2018, CBS and Weigel announced that another new subchannel service, Start TV , would launch on September 4; the new service replaced Decades on
2464-433: Is now NBC affiliate WTOV-TV ), CBS did score a major coup when Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric , a co-founder of NBC with RCA, bought WDTV from struggling DuMont and opted to affiliate the now-recalled KDKA-TV with CBS instead of NBC (like KDKA radio ) due to NBC extorting and coercing Westinghouse to trade KYW radio and WPTZ (now KYW-TV ) for Cleveland stations WTAM , WTAM-FM (now WMJI ), and WNBK (now WKYC );
2552-615: Is part of Fox 2 News in The Morning . In February 2021, both stations overhauled their set again with an expansion of the physical studio space with multiple venues and a larger video wall. KPLR no longer has a separate weather center, now just appearing on the same set as KTVI. The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signals of other St. Louis television stations: On May 31, 2006, KPLR added The Tube Music Network to digital subchannel 11.2; The Tube later abruptly suspended its operations on October 1, 2007. In 2010,
2640-850: The 2006 United States broadcast TV realignment , a chain of affiliation changes across the country and the establishment of competitor MyNetworkTV . On the day of the network launch announcement, The CW immediately announced it had reached affiliation agreements with Tribune Broadcasting (who had owned a stake in The WB) and CBS Television Stations. Tribune originally committed 16 stations that were previously affiliated with The WB, while CBS committed 11 of its UPN stations. Both companies also owned several UPN and WB-affiliated stations that did not join The CW in overlapping markets; these stations either later affiliated with MyNetworkTV or another network, or became completely independent. As part of its affiliation agreement with
2728-542: The ABC Owned Television Stations Group ) were named presidents and co-heads. This transition was completed on May 3. On July 16, 2021, CBS named Adrienne Roark as a president for the CBS Stations, effective August 2; she primarily oversees the group's stations in the eastern United States. Two additional presidents were announced on August 13, 2021: Jennifer Mitchell, who would oversee CBS's stations in
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2816-631: The Fox Broadcasting Company agreed to a multi-year, multi-station affiliation deal with New World Communications , resulting in most of New World's stations switching to Fox. This set off a chain of affiliation changes across the country and other multi-station affiliation deals for the next couple of years. Unable to find a station who would agree to replace New World's WJBK-TV in Detroit, CBS struck an eleventh-hour deal to purchase UHF station WGPR (now WWJ-TV ) outright. CBS also had trouble finding
2904-482: The Hampton Roads area. On December 12, 2011, CBS Television Stations announced its intent to purchase Riverhead, New York -licensed WLNY-TV (channel 55), later announced for a purchase price of $ 55 million, creating a duopoly with WCBS-TV. The company announced that it would add additional on-air staff and expand WLNY's local news programming (at the time, that station had only an 11 p.m. newscast). The FCC approved
2992-554: The Wrestling at the Chase banner, mostly offered to Midwestern stations who had previously aired Muchnick shows. Arguably KPLR's most notable wrestling moment came after it ceased airing locally produced content: on December 27, 1983, a Wrestling at the Chase taping contained the WWF debut of Hulk Hogan , who would become an international superstar with the promotion. KPLR produced a retrospective of
3080-467: The chief executive officer of The WB) for $ 146 million. Five days later, on October 1, ACME assumed operational responsibilities for the station under a local marketing agreement with Koplar. The sale was finalized on March 1, 1998, ending 38 years of local, family ownership and earning a handsome return on their original investment. It would be ACME's only station on the VHF band during the analog era, as all of
3168-637: The 2000 merger with Viacom and the subsequent establishment of the CBS Television Stations division. CBS Entertainment Group The following is a list of major assets that are owned by Paramount Global , an American multinational media conglomerate headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan , New York City . KPLR-TV KPLR-TV (channel 11) is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri , United States, serving as
3256-613: The Big Three stations airing network programming meant for older viewers and competition from KTVI's 9 p.m. newscast as reasons behind the move. In December 2008, KPLR moved production of its news programs to a temporary set in KTVI's Hampton studios as the Maryland Heights facility was being remodeled to accommodate both KPLR and KTVI's newscasts. On February 16, 2009, KPLR became the fourth St. Louis television station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition (one day after KTVI converted its newscasts to HD), broadcasting from
3344-605: The Bruiser and Ted DiBiase , and is considered one of the wrestling industry's most historic programs. About 1,100 episodes were produced during the show's run, which ended on September 10, 1983, when Muchnick retired from promoting and handed the slot over to the World Wrestling Federation . Even after WWF took over the programming, they still taped matches at the KPLR studios and aired a variant of its syndicated programming under
3432-511: The CBS name and identity, though the Group W name survived until the end of the 1990s as a holding company within the merged entity's structure. In 1997, Westinghouse changed its name to CBS Corporation. When CBS/Westinghouse began purchasing several broadcasting assets from Gaylord Entertainment during the late 1990s, these transactions included the acquisition of KTVT in Dallas. On May 24, 2000, with
3520-586: The CBS-owned stations. An additional CBS-owned subchannel service, Dabl , launched on September 9, 2019; this service, although carried on the CBS Television Stations, is run by CBS Television Distribution. The station group made a couple of content agreements in 2014 and 2015. The stations agreed in December 2014 for its content to be shown on Curb's Taxi TV. In November 2015, the station group agreed to allow Health Media Network to air local news reports on its network in doctors' waiting rooms. In May 2016, Adam Wiener
3608-578: The CBS–Group W partnership KCNC-TV in Denver , KUTV in Salt Lake City , and WTVJ's license and transmitter. In turn, CBS sold to NBC both WCAU-TV and WCIX's license and transmitter. CBS retained WCIX's intellectual property, thus, when the asset swap took place on September 10, 1995, WCIX "moved" to channel 4 and was renamed WFOR-TV, operating on WTVJ's former license. Westinghouse would then buy CBS outright,
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3696-696: The Cardinals games to other stations in Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. On May 23, 1959, the station debuted Wrestling at the Chase , a professional wrestling program that was originally produced from Chase Park Plaza 's Khorassan Ballroom (until 1970). The show featured the most famous wrestlers in the National Wrestling Alliance , which was controlled in part by St. Louis promoter Sam Muchnick . Participants included Ric Flair , Harley Race , former NFL player Dick
3784-594: The Fox Kids weekday and Saturday blocks ceding local advertising slots to air public service messages from Rice's ministry that discussed various controversial moral issues (such as the death penalty , same-sex marriage and abortion ), and reached an agreement with KTVI to carry Fox Kids starting in September 1996, making it the only New World-owned Fox station to carry the block. On September 26, 1997, Koplar Communications announced it would sell KPLR to ACME Communications (owned by Jamie Kellner , who then also served as
3872-581: The Koplar-owned Chase Park Plaza Hotel , located on Maryland Plaza in St. Louis' Central West End district. Channel 11 would move into a separate facility adjacent to the hotel several years later. Starting in the mid-1960s, Harold's son Edward J. "Ted" Koplar began working behind the scenes at KPLR, producing sports programming and developing the station's first regular local newscast. Ted Koplar became president and chief executive officer of channel 11 in 1979, and gained complete control of
3960-659: The Paramount Stations Group had operated the two stations through local marketing agreements since 1997. In 2002, Viacom traded UPN stations KTXH in Houston and WDCA in Washington, D.C. to Fox in exchange for KBHK-TV (now KPYX ) in San Francisco, one of the former Chris-Craft stations, resulting in the creation of a duopoly with CBS-owned KPIX. Viacom also bought independent Los Angeles station KCAL-TV in 2002, creating
4048-673: The Universe , Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs , and Denver, the Last Dinosaur . KPLR presently broadcasts 22 hours of locally produced newscasts each week; including a public affairs program on Saturday evenings called The Pulse of St. Louis , which airs over the final 45 minutes of the 7 p.m. newscast, and a weekly sports highlight program on Sunday evenings called Sunday Sports Extra , which also airs during that newscast. Channel 11 has aired local news programs since its sign-on, and
4136-436: The after-school children's program Captain 11's Showboat , which introduced The Three Stooges to St. Louis area television viewers. Captain 11 was played by longtime radio personality Harry Fender . Ted Koplar also diversified his family's entertainment holdings during his time at the helm of KPLR. This was most notably achieved through World Events Productions , which distributed three animated series Voltron: Defender of
4224-610: The channel 11 license in St. Louis, now KPLR-TV . CBS did attempt to sign on a station in Pittsburgh, as it was at the time the sixth-largest market but had just one commercial VHF station in DuMont-owned WDTV, while the rest were either on UHF (the modern-day WPGH-TV and WINP-TV ) or public television ( WQED ). Although the FCC turned down CBS's request to buy the channel 9 license in nearby Steubenville, Ohio and move it to Pittsburgh (that station, initially CBS affiliate WSTV-TV,
4312-418: The decision in November 1958, but CBS had already consummated its deal for channel 4 several months earlier, changing the station's call letters to KMOX-TV – which were intended for channel 11 – and operated it for 28 years (it is now Gray Television -owned KMOV ). Meanwhile, Koplar went to work building channel 11 on his own, no longer in the face of opposition. KPLR originally operated from studios within
4400-514: The digital subchannel network Start TV . It also maintains a half-interest in Start TV, which is co-owned with Weigel Broadcasting . CBS began its television operations on July 1, 1941, with its initial owned-and-operated station, WCBS-TV (then known as WCBW) in New York City . Other owned-and-operated stations were acquired through an ownership stake or outright purchase instead of being built by
4488-408: The intention of expanding local programming, including live sports, as well as programming from other Paramount properties. Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (the latter being Time Warner's successor) sold a majority stake in The CW to Nexstar Media Group on October 3, 2022; as part of the deal, CBS was given the right to end its CW affiliations. However, WKBD-TV in Detroit would subsequently sign
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#17328561823134576-507: The last Blues telecast on KPLR being a Stanley Cup playoff loss to the Vancouver Canucks ). Both the Cardinals and Blues are now exclusive to Bally Sports Midwest , which formerly (as FSN Midwest) produced the games for the station throughout the late 90s and early 2000s. The production of the games before that time was from Bud Sports Productions, a division of Anheuser-Busch . During its WB years, KPLR-TV also syndicated its coverage of
4664-624: The launch of MyNetworkTV , a network created primarily to serve as a network programming option for UPN and WB stations that were left out of The CW's affiliation deals. Three weeks later, on March 9, WRBU was confirmed to be the St. Louis market's MyNetworkTV affiliate. KPLR-TV remained a WB affiliate until the network ceased operations on September 17, 2006; when the station affiliated with The CW upon that network's debut on September 18, KPLR began branding as "CW 11". (WRBU joined MyNetworkTV upon that network's launch on September 5.) On September 17, 2008, Tribune announced that it would enter KPLR into
4752-426: The local marketing agreement with KTVI, major changes were made to KPLR's news programming. First on September 8, 2008, KPLR shifted the flagship 9 p.m. newscast to 7 p.m. and expanded the program to one hour, trading timeslots with The CW's prime time schedule, which the station moved to 8–10 p.m. (instead of the network-recommended 7–9 p.m. Central Time slot) with the network's permission; this effectively resulted in
4840-465: The market went to KDNL when that network launched on October 9, 1986. While this was part of a larger affiliation deal with KDNL's then-owner, Cox Broadcasting , most of the markets in KPLR's cable footprint had enough stations by this point to provide a local Fox affiliate. This would have made the prospect of KPLR as a multi-state Fox affiliate unattractive to the Koplars in any event. On January 17, 1994,
4928-591: The market's outlet for The CW . It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Fox affiliate KTVI (channel 2). The two stations share studios on Ball Drive in Maryland Heights ; KPLR's transmitter is located in Sappington, Missouri . The station first signed on the air on April 28, 1959, as the first independent station in Missouri. The station's call letters were derived from
5016-777: The merger of Viacom and CBS Corporation , Viacom's Paramount Stations Group were combined with CBS's owned-and-operated stations division to form the Viacom Television Stations Group . At the time, Viacom owned the UPN network and the Paramount Stations Group controlled UPN's owned-and-operated stations. The merger created duopolies between CBS and UPN stations in Philadelphia (KYW-TV and WPSG ), Boston (WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV ), Miami (WFOR and WBFS-TV ), Dallas–Fort Worth (KTVT and KTXA ), Detroit (WWJ-TV and WKBD-TV ) and Pittsburgh (KDKA-TV and WNPA ). Viacom had also exercised
5104-653: The name of its founding owner, St. Louis real estate developer and hotelier Harold Koplar . Despite losing in his quest to build the station from the ground up, events effectively outside his control would allow him to acquire the license for the station in 1958. CBS was originally granted a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build channel 11 in January 1957, prevailing over three other locally based competitors. But eight months later, CBS decided instead to purchase its existing St. Louis affiliate, KWK-TV (channel 4). As
5192-557: The network's affiliation on KDNL and the eight other ABC affiliates that Sinclair owned at the time for five years through August 2015. Sinclair—which has owned KDNL-TV since the group's 1996 acquisition of its previous corporate parent River City Broadcasting—entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $ 3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $ 2.7 billion in Tribune debt. Prohibited from owning all three stations, Sinclair would have been required to sell KPLR to
5280-487: The network's children's program block, Disney's One Too . UPN programs had previously run on KDNL during overnight and weekend timeslots and then on KNLC (channel 24, which subjected the network to several program preemptions due to content objections by owner, Larry Rice). St. Louis was one of the few top-50 markets without a UPN affiliate. The station continued carrying UPN in off-hours until July 2002, leaving UPN with no St. Louis affiliate until WRBU (channel 46) carried
5368-546: The network, Tribune Media agreed to divest its ownership interest in The WB (a move it made partly to avoid shouldering shutdown costs for The WB). and did not acquire an equity stake in The CW. In 2007, CBS-owned-and-operated WFRV-TV in Green Bay and its satellite WJMN-TV in Escanaba, Michigan, were sold to Liberty Media . That same year, Cerberus Capital Management formed the holding company Four Points Media Group to serve as
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#17328561823135456-509: The network. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation 's purchase of CBS in 1995 then merged the network's owned-and-operated stations with those of Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W). With the subsequent 2000 merger with Viacom , the CBS-owned stations were combined with Viacom's Paramount Stations Group to form the Viacom Television Stations Group . The group was then renamed CBS Television Stations in 2006, and later CBS News and Stations in 2021. CBS's involvement in television dates back to
5544-412: The newscast being reduced to airing only on Monday through Friday evenings in part due to The CW airing a three-hour prime time lineup on Sundays at the time (although The CW turned its Sunday prime time slots over to the network's affiliates in September 2009, the 7 p.m. newscast would not expand to weekends until September 2012). The station cited an underserved younger audience in the 9 p.m. timeslot with
5632-481: The opening of experimental station W2XAB in New York City on July 21, 1931. On June 24, 1941, W2XAB received a commercial construction permit and program authorization as WCBW. Later renamed WCBS-TV , it would ultimately be the only station (as of 2020) originally built and signed on by CBS. The rest of the stations would be acquired by CBS, either in an ownership stake or outright purchase. In 1950, when rival NBC
5720-529: The other networks, Westinghouse agreed to affiliate its entire television unit with CBS. Among the Group W stations, KPIX in San Francisco and KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh were already CBS affiliates, while WJZ-TV in Baltimore and WBZ-TV in Boston switched from ABC and NBC, respectively. This affiliation pact displaced existing CBS-owned WCAU-TV ; after NBC prevailed in a bidding war for the station, NBC agreed to sell to
5808-534: The other stations they owned were on UHF. As part of the sale agreement, Ted Koplar signed a three-year contract to remain with KPLR-TV as the station's CEO, along with serving as a consultant to ACME, for an annual salary of $ 1 million. However, Koplar resigned from KPLR/ACME in October 1999 after one year, citing an irreconcilable rift with ACME management. In September 1998, KPLR changed its branding to "WB11". In 2000, KPLR began carrying UPN programming in off-hours, running select prime time shows and cartoons from
5896-446: The program and kept throughout the years. From April 9, 2006, to September 7, 2008, KPLR produced The Fan Show , a live sports talk program that was hosted by sports director Rich Gould, featuring audience-participation games and discussion. It was originally broadcast from The Casino Queen's Club Sevens for the first 20 months of its run, before the program relocated to AJ's Bar and Grill in December 2007. From 1959 to 1968, KPLR aired
5984-412: The program in 1999, consisting mostly of latter-era footage plus interview clips of Muchnick's wrestlers and other employees, as well as others associated with the St. Louis sports scene such as Bob Costas and Joe Garagiola , the latter the program's first host. Included were clips from the program's only known surviving early episode, from 1962, which Garagiola recorded as an audition tape before leaving
6072-563: The ratings. In the past, KPLR has attempted to format its newscasts to attract a younger audience, employing anchors under the age of 35 and featuring a more fast-paced reporting style. Nevertheless, KPLR has often been acknowledged by St. Louis Post-Dispatch television critics as a station strong on "sweeps stories", running one or more major investigative pieces during the November, February and May sweeps periods. KPLR's stories have also been seen as much more broad-based and less sensationalistic compared to other stations. After entering into
6160-409: The sale on January 31, 2012, and CBS took control of the station on March 30. WLNY suspended its own news operations the previous day and began airing WCBS-TV produced newscasts on July 2, 2012. On October 21, 2014, CBS and Weigel Broadcasting announced the launch of a new digital subchannel service called Decades , scheduled to launch on all CBS owned and operated stations in May 2015. The channel
6248-428: The sale received FCC approval on December 20, and was completed on December 27, creating the first legal station duopoly in the St. Louis market between KTVI and KPLR. Tribune's direct purchase of KTVI to form a duopoly with KPLR was possible as, in recent years, KPLR and KDNL have rotated between fourth and fifth place in total day viewership due to the weaker viewership of KDNL's programming since its news department
6336-508: The second time , forming ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global ), on December 4, 2019. In January 2021, it was reported that Dunn and Friend had been placed on administrative leave, following allegations of racist and sexist conduct. On April 15, 2021, CBS Television Stations and CBS News announced that their respective divisions would merge into one entity. It was also announced that Neeraj Khemlani (former Executive Vice President of Hearst Newspapers ) and Wendy McMahon (former President of
6424-554: The station began airing the Action Pack syndication block; the block's inaugural broadcast, the made-for-TV movie TekWar , earned locally an 11.2 rating/16 share, a 129% increase over that same time period during November 1993. In the summer of 1994, the station was approached by ABC to negotiate an affiliation agreement with the network to replace KTVI (channel 2) – which had been affiliated with ABC since it signed on as Belleville, Illinois –licensed WTVI on August 10, 1953 (when
6512-501: The station changed its on-air branding from "CW11" to "KPLR 11" as several Tribune-owned CW affiliates began shifting away from using references to the network within their station branding, and reincorporated the Gateway Arch into its logo (essentially, a revision of the logo that KPLR used following the Tribune purchase as a WB affiliate). Tribune bought KTVI outright on July 1, 2013, as part of its $ 2.75 billion acquisition of Local TV;
6600-546: The station upon his father's death in 1985. For most of its existence, KPLR was a traditional independent station featuring cartoons , sitcoms , movies , drama series and locally produced newscasts. The station was also available on many cable systems in Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas as a regional superstation until the late 1980s. Locally, channel 11's first and only competitor came in June 1969, when Evans Broadcasting launched KDNL-TV (channel 30). The Fox affiliation for
6688-442: The station, then broadcasting on UHF channel 54, also maintained a primary CBS affiliation) – as its St. Louis affiliate. KTVI was among the thirteen "Big Three" network -affiliated television stations already owned or in the process of being acquired by New World Communications (and one of three out of the four stations that the group was acquiring from Argyle Television Holdings at the time) that were slated to switch to Fox under
6776-486: The station. Station manager Peter Dunn was named CBS Television Stations President in November 2009. Station creative services director Bruce Erik Brauer was named in June 2010 senior vice president of creative services for the group. WCBS news director David Friend became the group's senior vice president of news in August 2010. On June 14, 2010, Local TV , owner of CBS affiliate WTKR , acquired The CW affiliate WGNT from CBS Television Stations to create its own duopoly in
6864-461: The trade ended up being reversed in 1965 by order of the FCC and the Department of Justice after an eight-year investigation. Had CBS not been able to affiliate with KDKA-TV, it would have affiliated with eventual NBC affiliate WIIC-TV (now WPXI ) once it signed on in 1957 instead. This coup would eventually lead to a much stronger relationship between Westinghouse and CBS. CBS was a central player in
6952-413: The western half of the country starting on September 7, and Tom Canedo, who immediately began overseeing the eight CBS-owned CW affiliates. In the fall of 2022, WSBK-TV and WBFS-TV returned to independence, ending the only affiliations of MyNetworkTV carried by any Paramount station. On May 5, 2023, CBS announced that its eight CW affiliates would drop the network and become independent in September, with
7040-631: Was completed on September 19, 2019. Since 2008, KPLR has aired CW network programming from 8 to 10 p.m. Central Time, one hour after the network-recommended timeslot for its programming in that time zone but consistent with its local airtimes in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, in order to air a 7 p.m. local newscast. This practice extends to programming such as WWE NXT which typically airs live on The CW's other Central Time affiliates. KPLR also airs Fox programs that are preempted for other broadcasts by KTVI, such as local newscasts. For example,
7128-510: Was dominant in television and black and white transmission was widespread, CBS began to buy or build their own stations (outside of New York City) in Los Angeles , Chicago , and other major cities. Up to that point, CBS programming was seen on such stations as KTTV in Los Angeles, in which CBS – as a bit of insurance and to guarantee program clearance in that market – quickly purchased
7216-413: Was followed on September 20, 2010, with the debut of an hour-long afternoon newscast at 4 p.m. On December 23, 2011, KPLR/KTVI opened a news bureau in the newly renovated Peabody Opera House in downtown St. Louis , to better serve the downtown and eastern portion of the St. Louis metropolitan area. On January 28, 2015, both stations introduced a new combined set with LED lighting , two video walls, and
7304-697: Was named as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS Local Digital Media, responsible for all digital and streaming initiatives of the CBS Television Stations. On August 1, 2018, CBS Television Stations and CBS Interactive announced plans to launch CBSN Local , a group of streaming local news channels, led by Wiener, to be distributed through the existing national CBSN service. The first of these services, CBSN New York, launched on December 13, 2018, with Los Angeles following in June 2019. Eleven other markets launched, most recently CBS News Miami in January 2022. CBS and Viacom then merged for
7392-475: Was not viable for broadcasting at the time (due to the fact that most television sets of the time were not equipped with UHF tuners), CBS decided to sell those stations off and affiliate with VHF stations WITI and WTIC-TV (now WFSB ). More long-term, CBS bought stations in Philadelphia ( WCAU , now owned by NBC) and St. Louis (KMOX-TV, now KMOV ), but would eventually sell these stations off as well; before buying KMOX-TV, CBS had attempted to purchase and sign on
7480-572: Was one of the first independent stations in the country to have a functioning news department. Like most stations that are not affiliated with one of the Big Three networks, KPLR had traditionally aired a prime time newscast at 9 p.m. that ran one hour ahead of the late newscasts seen on the major network affiliates; for much of the time prior to 2008, KPLR's 9 p.m. newscast ran as a half-hour program. After KTVI moved its late evening newscast to 9 p.m. following its August 1995 switch from ABC to Fox, that station's prime time newscast consistently beat KPLR's in
7568-542: Was shut down by Sinclair in 2001 (KPLR ranked in fifth place in total day ratings at the time of the purchase, with KDNL ranking in fourth place). There have long been rumors that ABC has considered moving its affiliation to KPLR, in part because KDNL-TV has been one of the network's weakest affiliates since joining the network in 1995 (in stark contrast to KTVI's former status as one of ABC's strongest affiliates). However, on March 26, 2010, KDNL owner Sinclair Broadcast Group extended its affiliation agreement with ABC to retain
7656-658: Was sold to Belo Corporation , owners of CBS affiliate WWL-TV in New Orleans, after Belo turned down Viacom's offer to purchase WWL. On February 10, 2005, UPN-owned stations WNDY-TV in Indianapolis and WWHO in Columbus, Ohio, were sold to the LIN TV Corporation , owners of then-CBS Indianapolis affiliate WISH-TV . Later on November 4, 2005, The New York Times Company bought UPN-owned-and-operated station KAUT-TV to create
7744-597: Was turned down by channel 11 station management (including its owner at that time Koplar Communications) because the owner felt that "they had a strong slate of children's programming and no room for the Rangers ", and KNLC (channel 24), a religious independent station in the St. Louis market had to pick the affiliation up. Ultimately, by the spring of 1996, due to objections to program content and accompanying national advertising, New Life Evangelistic Center/KNLC owner Rev. Larry Rice began refusing to sell local advertising during
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