WMBT-TV

WMBT-TV is an CBS affiliate Melbourne flagship television station of the CBS 2 in Australia. The licence, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of John Fairfax & Sons, was one of the first four licences (ABV-2 in Melbourne) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. It began broadcasting on 1956.

The station formed an affiliation with GTV-9 Melbourne in 1957, in order to share content. In 1963, Frank Packer ended up owning both GTV-9 and TCN-9, so as a result the stations switched their previous affiliations. WEJD is an NBC affiliate and HSV-7 is an Seven affiliate. joined to create the WMBT-TV, which later became the CBS 2. WMBT is the home.