WCBS-TV, branded CBS New York, is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Riverhead, New York–licensed independent station WLNY-TV. The two stations share studios within the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan; WCBS-TV's transmitter is located at One World Trade Center.
WCBS is a radio station licensed to New York, New York, owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. WCBS's studios are located in the combined Audacy facility in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan and its transmitter site is located on High Island in the Bronx. Its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United States and Canada.
Christian P.Wragge is an American news anchor. He is the co-anchor for New York's CBS2's News This Morning and CBS2's News at Noon, alongside Mary Calvi. He was previously on WCBS's 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts, until he moved to CBS's The Early Show (nationwide), where he served as morning co-anchor from January 2011 until January 6, 2012, when the broadcast was replaced.
Maurice DuBois is an American television anchorman for WCBS-TV in New York City and the CBS network.
Rob Morrison is an American former television journalist and news anchor.
Cindy Kwang-Mei Hsu is a Chinese American Emmy Award winning news reporter and anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City. She currently anchors CBS 2 News at 9am, and substitute anchors for other shows. She previously anchored for the morning, noon, and 5:00 p.m. newscasts. She also anchored the weekend morning and evening newscasts until 2016.
Alexis Christoforous is a New York-based Correspondent for ABC News. Her reports are featured across the ABC News platform including "ABC News Live", "Good Morning America"," "Nightline", ABC-TV affiliate stations, as well as the ABC Radio Network.
CBS News Radio, formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as the CBS Radio Network, is a radio network that provides news to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by Paramount Global. It is the last of the three original national U.S. radio networks still operating and still owned by its parent company, even though CBS sold its owned and operated radio stations in 2017. The current NBC Radio Network is actually owned by iHeartMedia but licenses use of the NBC name and NBC's TV news reports.
Ian Eagle is an American sports announcer. He calls NBA, NFL, and college basketball games on CBS, TNT, and TBS, as well as Brooklyn Nets games on the YES Network and French Open tennis for Tennis Channel. Other announcing experiences include Army–Navy football games, boxing, and NCAA track and field for CBS.
Ira Joe Fisher is an American broadcaster, poet, and educator. From 1999 to 2006, he was the weather reporter for CBS's The Saturday Early Show. He is known for his ability to write backwards on Plexiglas during his weather presentations.
Dana Tyler is a news anchor and reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City, where she anchored the station's 6 p.m. newscast. In addition, Tyler hosts Eye on New York, a half-hour weekly community affairs program for WCBS, as well as several annual local specials: CBS 2 at the Tonys; CBS 2 at the Met ; and Tunnel to Towers Run. Tyler first joined WCBS as a weekend anchor and reporter on July 16, 1990. On March 27, 2024, after 34 years with WCBS, Tyler signed off for the last time.
Paul Guzman, better known as Pablo Guzmán, was an American television personality who worked as a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City. He joined CBS 2 News in 1995 and was made a senior correspondent for the station. Before WCBS-TV, he was a reporter for Metromedia Channel 5 WNEW-TV from 1984 to 1992 and at WNBC-TV from 1992 to 1995. He won two regional Emmy Awards.
Steve Bartelstein is an American former television journalist. He was previously a news anchor in New York City, first at WABC-TV (1999–2007), a flagship station of the ABC television network, WCBS-TV (2007–2009), a flagship station of CBS and later in Chicago at WBBM-TV (2010–2011), a television station owned and operated by the television network CBS.
In broadcasting, a flagship is the broadcast station which originates a television network, or a particular radio or television program that plays a key role in the branding of and consumer loyalty to a network or station. This includes both direct network feeds and broadcast syndication, but generally not backhauls. Not all networks or shows have a flagship station, as some originate from a dedicated radio or television studio.
Lonnie William Quinn is the lead weather anchor on WCBS-TV in New York City. Quinn used to serve as weather anchor for CBS This Morning Saturday and currently appears on the CBS Evening News. He appears frequently on sister radio station WCBS-AM 880 for their weather reports.
Megan Linnea Glaros is an American meteorologist. She was formerly the weekday morning meteorologist for WBBM-TV in Chicago and the weekend meteorologist/weekday entertainment reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City.
In the broadcasting industry, a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network. This distinguishes such a television or radio station from an owned-and-operated station (O&O), which is owned by the parent network.
Craig Allen is a meteorologist whose weather reports can be heard weekdays on WCBS Newsradio 880 in New York City and globally on Audacy.com. He also does freelance forecasting for the News 12 Networks. He recently returned to CBS2 Weekend mornings to help out the First Alert Weather Team after the tragic passing of one of their members
Alice Gainer is an American anchor and reporter for WCBS-TV and WLNY-TV, New York. Previously, she co-anchored the News At Nine on CBS2's sister station WLNY, with Dick Brennan. Prior to WCBS Gainer worked at WNYW Fox 5, New York and for eight years before that, worked as an Anchor/Reporter at News 12 New Jersey. She has also appeared on News 12 Westchester, CNN, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Happy Hour.
Otis Livingston is a weekday sports anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City and is a sideline reporter on CBS Sports. He has won numerous Emmy Awards.
