11 Facts About WBBM-TV

WBBM-TV is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the CBS network.

WBBM-TV moved their news set upstairs to a more traditional studio in September 2017 after an obligation to maintain their main studio in the streetside space for ten years was fulfilled, with CBS eventually removing the LED screen and putting the space up for retail lease in 2019, though with no interest coming in during the COVID-19 pandemic, WBBM-TV returned to using it late in 2020 to allow for wider social distancing of station workspaces.

Presently, WBBM-TV carries Bears regular season games only during weeks in which the team was scheduled to host an American Football Conference opponent at Soldier Field in a Sunday afternoon timeslot.

From 1973 to 1990, WBBM-TV aired select Chicago Bulls games via the NBA on CBS.

From 2003 to 2007, WBBM-TV served as the host broadcaster of the Chicago Marathon, which is held annually in October, taking over from NBC owned-and-operated station WMAQ-TV; to accommodate the telecast, some CBS News programs were preempted or delayed.

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In 1982, Kurtis left WBBM-TV to join CBS News as anchor of the CBS Morning News; he was replaced as anchor of WBBM's weeknight newscasts by former WMAQ-TV anchor Don Craig.

WBBM-TV later hired African-American journalist Lester Holt to replace Porterfield as evening anchor.

In May 2007, WBBM-TV slipped to fourth from sign-on to sign-off behind WLS-TV, CW affiliate WGN-TV and NBC station WMAQ, and just barely ahead of Fox station WFLD.

In June 2020, WBBM-TV was honored with a Peabody Award for the report "Unwarranted", a 2019 investigation into botched police raids in Chicago and the impact they left on families and their homes.

From 2006 to 2008, WBBM-TV used an updated version of the theme, composed by Frank's son Christian Gari.

WBBM-TV is currently the only "full-power" television station in Chicago that operates its digital signal on the VHF band .