CBS is an American broadcast television network owned and operated by Paramount Global, which originated as a radio network in September 1927, and expanded into television in July 1941. The network currently has 15 owned-and-operated stations, and current affiliation agreements with 236 other television stations. [1] [2] [3]
This article is a listing of current CBS affiliates in the continental United States and United States possessions (including subchannel affiliates, satellite stations, low-power stations, and translators), arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the stations city of license and followed in parentheses by the Designated Market Area if it differs from the city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their virtual channel (PSIP) number.
Stations listed in boldface are owned and operated by CBS through its subsidiary CBS News and Stations (excluding independent stations owned by the group, unless the station simulcasts a co-owned CBS O&O station via a digital subchannel).
Some CBS programming is broadcast on the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS).
Montana Television Network: statewide network consisting of 7 stations
¹ W27EI-D 27.1 is a translator licensed to Valley Television Cooperative, Inc. which rebroadcasts CBS programming from Tegna Inc.'s WUSA-TV 9.1 in Washington, D.C.
¹ CBS Puerto Rico is a cable-only feed of Lilly Broadcasting's WSEE-TV 35.1 in Erie, Pennsylvania.