WMAR-TV
WMAR-TV, channel 2, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. WMAR-TV's studios and offices are located on York Road (Maryland Route 45) in Towson (though with a Baltimore City mailing address), north of the Baltimore City-Baltimore County border. Its landmark three-pronged candelabra transmitter and broadcast tower is located on Television Hill in the Woodberry neighborhood of Baltimore.
History
Early years; CBS affiliation (1948-1981)
WMAR-TV first began broadcasting to Baltimore and central Maryland on October 27, 1947. It was the fourteenth television station in the United States, and the first to sign on in Maryland. It was owned by The A.S. Abell Company, publisher of the then "The Sunpapers", twice daily newspapers of Baltimore, along with the original radio station WMAR-FM (97.9 MHz, frequency now occupied by WIYY-FM). Its first studios and broadcasting facilities were located for the first four years in the old Sun Building at so-called "Sun Square" at the southwestern corner of South Charles Street and West Baltimore Street in downtown Baltimore. With the 1950s and early 1960s redevelopment of downtown with Charles Center and the later razing of the Sun Building to be replaced by the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre and the relocation of the newspaper's offices and printing plant to 501 North Calvert Street, facilities for the station were temporarily located there.
