WUSA (TV)

WUSA

Washington, D.C. United States
Channels	Digital: 9 (VHF), shared with WJAL[1] Virtual: 9
Branding	WUSA 9
Programming
Affiliations	9.1: CBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Tegna Inc. (WUSA-TV, Inc.)
History
First air date	January 16, 1949 (75 years ago) (1949-01-16)
Former call signs	WOIC (1949–1950) WTOP-TV (1950–1978) WDVM-TV (1978–1986)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 9 (VHF, 1949–2009) Digital: 34 (UHF, 1998–2009)
Call sign meaning	United States of America USA Today (owned by Gannett, WUSA's former owner)
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	65593
ERP	52 kW
HAAT	235.6 m (773 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°57′1″N 77°4′47″W / 38.95028°N 77.07972°W / 38.95028; -77.07972 (WUSA)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wusa9.com

WUSA (channel 9) is a television station in Washington, D.C., affiliated with CBS. It is the flagship property of Tegna Inc., which is based in suburban McLean, Virginia. WUSA's studios and transmitter are at Broadcast House on Wisconsin Avenue in northwest Washington's Tenleytown neighborhood.^[3] Among CBS affiliates not owned and operated by the network, WUSA is the third-largest by market size (after Gray Television's WANF in Atlanta and Tegna's KHOU in Houston).^[4]

The station's signal is relayed on a low-power digital translator station, W27EI-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia^[5] (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative). It has a channel-sharing agreement with Silver Spring, Maryland–licensed WJAL (channel 68, owned by Entravision Communications).