KOVR is a television station licensed to Stockton, California, United States, serving as the CBS outlet for the Sacramento area. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside KMAX-TV, an independent station. The two stations share studios on KOVR Drive in West Sacramento; KOVR's transmitter is located in Walnut Grove, California.
KOVR broadcast from Mount Diablo from 1954 to 1957.
In 1955, KOVR opened secondary studios and offices in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Closeup of the top of the KXTV/KOVR tower in Walnut Grove, from which KOVR's signal is broadcast
Rick Blangiardi was president of River City Broadcasting and interim general manager of KOVR when it switched to CBS, adopting an early prime time schedule for channel 13.
CBS News and Stations is a division of the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global that owns and operates a group of American television stations along with CBS News. As of January 2021, the division owns 28 stations: 14 are the core stations of the CBS television network, thirteen independent stations, and one primary-channel affiliate of the digital subchannel network Start TV. It also maintains a half-interest in Start TV, which is co-owned with Weigel Broadcasting.
The CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, home of WCBS and WLNY
KCBS and KCAL operate at the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles' Studio City neighborhood.
The WBBM studio building at the Block 37 development in Chicago
A news van for KYW/WPSG in Philadelphia, parked in The Wildwoods area
