WRGB (fictional)

WRGB, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States and serving New York's Capital District (Albany–Schenectady–Troy) as well as Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with CW owned-and-operated station 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, a hamlet of New Scotland. WCWN additionally carries a simulcast of WRGB's main channel in 720p high definition on subchannel 45.3 for the convenience of UHF viewers who have trouble receiving WRGB's VHF signal.

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.

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.

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Freedom announced on November 2, 2011 that it would bow out of television and sell its stations to Sinclair Broadcast Group. Freedom excluded WRGB and WCWN from the sale, instead opting to sell them to CBS Television Stations, who had showed interest in buying both stations before. The sale of WRGB and WCWN to CBS closed on March 16, 2012, after which CBS obtained a waiver allowing the company to keep both WRGB and WCWN. Following the sale, WRGB became the second "Big Four" O&O in the Albany–Schenectady–Troy market after ABC's WTEN (channel 10).

Newscast themes

 * CBS Enforcer - Gari Media (2000-2003, 2007-present)
 * News in Focus - John Hegner (2003-2007)