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List of CBS television affiliates

wikimedia list article

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ6565361 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of affiliates for CBS, a television network based in the United States. All affiliates owned by the network's CBS News and Stations division are owned-and-operated stations.

Stations are listed in alphabetical order by state, district or territory and media market.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 45-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, television and affiliates is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of CBS television affiliates” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.