Many people ask if "KDKA" stands for anything -- and the simple answer is: no. The call letters "KDKA" were assigned from a roster maintained to provide identification for ships and marine shore stations, these being the only regular services then in operation under formal license by the Federal Government.

It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Jeannette-licensed WPKD-TV (channel 19), an independent station. The two stations share studios at the Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh; KDKA-TV's transmitter is located in the city's Perry North neighborhood.

KDKA's logo from the 1920s. So began the first broadcast by a commercially-licensed radio station. KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station on November 2, 1920.

The KDKA TV 2 News Team provides a look at the latest news events of the day, the sports scores, an up-to-the-minute weather forecast and traffic report. A wealthy woman with only a few months to live due to terminal cancer is found murdered, and the team has to piece together who was behind it.