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| City | Schenectady, New York |
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| Branding | CBS 6 |
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| WCWN | |
| History | |
| Founded | January 13, 1928 (as experimental station W2XB) |
First air date | February 26, 1942 |
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Call sign meaning | Walter Ransom Gail Baker (GE engineer and head of NTSC); color of phospor |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 73942 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 392 m (1,286 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°37′31.3″N 74°0′36.7″W / 42.625361°N 74.010194°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | cbs6albany |
WRGB (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CW affiliate WCWN (channel 45, also licensed to Schenectady). The two stations share studios on Balltown Road in Niskayuna, New York (with a Schenectady postal address); WRGB's transmitter is located on the Helderberg Escarpment west of New Salem.
WRGB is notable for being one of the first television stations in the world. It began broadcasting experimentally in early 1928, with the first daily programs being broadcast later that year. It later became one of a handful of television stations licensed for commercial broadcasting operation before the end of World War II, being the fourth overall to sign on and by far the smallest TV station during World War II.
The station launched the on-camera careers of TV chefs Art "Mr. Food" Ginsburg in the mid-1970s; and of Rachael Ray, who launched her "30 Minute Meals" segment on WRGB's newscasts in the mid-1990s.
- ^ "Report and Order", Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, June 16, 2021, Retrieved June 16, 2021.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WRGB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.