WBBM TV 2

WBBM TV 2 is a TV station in Chicago, Illinois, USA covering CBS network programs, local news and weather.

WBBM TV 2 is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network.

WBBM TV 2 traces its roots to 1940 when Balaban and Katz, a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, opened experimental station W9XBK. On September 6, 1946, it received a commercial license as WBKB (meaning Balaban and Katz Broadcasting) on channel 4, the first commercial station outside the Eastern Time Zone. Starting in 1948, WBKB shared the CBS affiliation in Chicago with WGN TV 9. Balaban and Katz became part of United Paramount Theatres in 1950, a year after Paramount was forced to divest its chain of movie theaters by order of the United States Supreme Court. In 1953, United Paramount Theaters, then-owner of WBKB, merged with ABC, who already owned WENR-TV (channel 7). As the newly merged entity could not keep both stations under FCC regulations of the time, WBKB's channel 4 license was sold to CBS for $6.75 million. On February 12, one day after the merger took effect, channel 4 took the WBBM-TV call letters (after WBBM radio, which CBS has owned since 1929). WBBM-TV moved to channel 2 on July 5, 1953. In 1960, WBBM's McClurg Court studios were the site of the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

This TV station is owned by CBS Corporation.

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-- January 5, 2011 -- Karen Rariden is now an assistant news director at WBBM TV 2, effective February 2. She was previously an executive producer at KYW TV 3 in Philadelphia. Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, January 6, 2011

WBBM TV CBS 2 Launches 'Monsters and Money in the Morning'
-- CBS 2 Chicago announced on December 3, 2009 that it will launch Monsters and Money in the Morning, an innovative new local weekday 5- 7 a.m. show, beginning February 1, 2010. The morning talk show will feature an ensemble of veteran...

Mike Hegedus has been named morning news anchor at WBBM-TV in Chicago. He had been executive producer at McKinley Reserve Media Group. Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, December 4, 2009

Veteran Broadcaster Harry Porterfield Returns to CBS TV 2 WBBM Chicago
-- Veteran broadcaster Harry Porterfield is returning to CBS 2 Chicago where he began his television news career in 1964. Beginning Monday, August 10, 2009, Porterfield will co-anchor CBS 2 News at 11:00 AM and serve as a news reporter for station...

March 19,, 2009 WBBM-TV To Whom It May Concern: My wife Susan
Samturis is prepared to come on your show and do a ‘Super-Shopping’ in one of your local supermarkets. She can purchase around $200 worth of groceries for less than $10. Susan has been nationally recognized as the Coupon Queen Of America....