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| Branding | WCSH 6; News Center Maine |
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| History | |
First air date | December 20, 1953 |
Former call signs | WCSH-TV (1953–1997) |
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Call sign meaning | "Congress Square Hotel" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 39664 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 587.9 m (1,929 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°51′30″N 70°42′39″W / 43.85833°N 70.71083°W |
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| Website | www |
WCSH (channel 6) is a television station in Portland, Maine, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Congress Square in Downtown Portland, and its transmitter is located on Winn Mountain in Sebago. Together with WLBZ (channel 2) in Bangor, which simulcasts most of WCSH's local newscasts, it is known as News Center Maine.
WCSH is the oldest operating television station in Portland, signing on in December 1953. It was an outgrowth of WCSH radio, one of NBC's charter affiliates when it was constituted as a radio network in 1926, and broadcast from its namesake, the Congress Square Hotel in downtown Portland, for nearly 25 years. Founded by the Rines family and sold to Tegna predecessor Gannett Company in 1997, it has generally been the highest-rated station in TV news in the market since the mid-1980s.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WCSH". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.