WCCO-TV

WCCO-TV

Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota United States
City	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Channels	Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 4
Branding	WCCO; WCCO News / CBS News Minnesota
Programming
Affiliations	4.1: CBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	CBS News and Stations (CBS Broadcasting Inc.)
History
First air date	July 1, 1949 (75 years ago) (1949-07-01)
Former call signs	WTCN-TV (1949–1952)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 4 (VHF, 1949–2009)
Former affiliations	ABC (secondary, 1949–1953)
Call sign meaning	Derived from WCCO radio
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	9629
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	455.9 m (1,496 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°3′45″N 93°8′22″W / 45.06250°N 93.13944°W / 45.06250; -93.13944
Translator(s)	see § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/

WCCO-TV (channel 4), branded CBS Minnesota, is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving as the CBS outlet for the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, and maintains studios on South 11th Street along Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis; its transmitter is located at the Telefarm complex in Shoreview, Minnesota.

WCCO-TV's programming is also seen on full-power satellite station KCCW-TV (channel 12) in Walker (with transmitter near Hackensack). Nielsen Media Research treats WCCO-TV and KCCW-TV as one station in local ratings books, using the identifier name WCCO+. From 1987 until 2017, WCCO-TV operated a second satellite, KCCO-TV (virtual and VHF digital channel 7) in Alexandria (with transmitter near Westport).

WCCO is one of three owned-and-operated network affiliates in the Twin Cities market, the others being Fox O&O KMSP-TV (channel 9) and MyNetworkTV O&O WFTC (channel 9.2).