

Paramount also owned KTLA in Los Angeles since DuMont already owned WABD (now WNYW) in New York City, WTTG in Washington, D.C. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that Paramount's holdings were large enough that the studio effectively controlled DuMont. At the time, Paramount Pictures owned a stake in DuMont. WBKB played an indirect role in DuMont's demise.
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In 1949, Balaban and Katz became part of United Paramount Theatres, after Paramount Pictures was forced to divest its chain of movie theaters by order of the United States Supreme Court. In December 1948, WBKB began sharing the market's CBS affiliation with WGN-TV (channel 9), after that station affiliated with the network. One of the station's early highlights was its telecast of the National Football League's championship game between the Chicago Cardinals and the Philadelphia Eagles on December 28, 1947. Louis became the first television station west of the Eastern Time Zone to affiliate with a major network. Channel 4 originally operated as an independent station, since at the time it was not clear that it would be an affiliate of either CBS or the DuMont Television Network eventually, KSD-TV (now KSDK) in St. WBKB aired some of the earliest CBS programs, including the 1947 debut of Junior Jamboree (later renamed Kukla, Fran and Ollie after it moved to NBC in 1948).
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On September 6, 1946, the station received a commercial license as WBKB (for Balaban and Katz Broadcasting) on VHF channel 4, becoming the first commercial station located outside the Eastern Time Zone it was also the sixth commercial TV station in the United States behind WNBT (now WNBC), WCBW (now WCBS-TV), WABD (now WNYW) all in New York City WRGB in Schenectady, New York and WPTZ (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia. While operating the Navy school, Eddy continued to lead W9XBK and wrote a book that defined commercial television for many years. When World War II began, Eddy used the W9XBK facilities as a prototype school for training Navy electronics technicians. "Bill" Eddy away from RCA's experimental station W2XBS in New York City. In order to establish the station, the company hired television pioneer William C. Balaban and Katz was already well known for owning several movie theaters in the Chicago area. WBBM-TV traces its history to 1940 when Balaban and Katz, a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, signed on experimental station W9XBK, the first all-electronic television facility in Chicago. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington Street in the Loop district, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower. WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's CBS network outlet.
