WCBS is the callsign of CBS's three flagshipbroadcast stations in [[New York City|New York] In broadcasting and radio communication, a callsign or call sign (also call letters) is a unique designation for a transmitting station. ... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... A flagship is the ship used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships. ... A broadcast station may be: a radio station a television station It does not include television networks or radio networks. ...
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WCBS, the flagship station of the CBS Radio Network, is owned by Infinity Broadcasting; a company that manages 180 stations in 40 markets spread over 22 states.
Like many MOR stations at the time, WCBS did mix in softer songs by rock and roll artists, as their ratings at the time were mediocre compaired to the higher ratings at WOR and WNEW, both of which also had MOR formats.
In 2001 WCBS won the rights to carry radio broadcasts of the New York Yankees, which the station had previously carried from 1939 to 1940 (when the outlet had the WABC call letters) and 1960 to 1966 (prior to its conversion to an all-news format).
WCBS was the highest-rated news operation in New York for most of the time from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s.
Jensen had only come to WCBS a year earlier, but was already well-known for his coverage of Robert F. Kennedy's campaign for Senate a year earlier.
On May 24, 2005, WCBS chose to lead their 11 PM newscast with a story and exclusive video of actor Burt Reynolds slapping a CBS producer on the same day of an important vote on funding for stem cell research in the House of Representatives.
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