The commission could impose fines of $27,500 for each CBS-owned station and affiliate.
Only 4 of the 14 CBS-owned stations are transmitting digitally now; 8 more are expected to be doing so by the end of 1999.
In Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, CBS-owned stations had a monopoly on the all-news format.
Although its talk radio format was popular, the station went all-news in 1974, following the lead of several other CBS-owned stations.
Currently the station is located in Two Prudential Plaza, along with several other CBS-owned stations.
The show will have news host is Alan Frio, a former news anchor from the CBS-owned station in Philadelphia.
Other CBS-owned stations soon began using the theme.
In 1962 he helped establish Channel 13 and was its first general manager; before that he supervised the editorials written by CBS-owned stations.
As with all CBS-owned stations, it carries only one 1080i high definition channel without subchannel services.
NBC- and CBS-owned stations made just as much for their parent companies as the networks did.