WBRM-TV

:For the real-life flagship Hearst station, see .
WBRM-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Baltimore, Maryland, affiliated with the Central Television Network. It is the flagship property of Hearst Television, which has owned the station since its inception, and is sister to the company's sole radio properties, WBRM (1090 AM) and (97.9 FM). The three outlets share studios and offices on Television Hill in the Woodberry section of Baltimore, near the transmission tower that WBRM-TV also shares with WIYY and several other Baltimore television and radio stations.
==Programming==
Syndicated programs seen on WBRM-TV (as of January 2022) include The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Good Dish, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Tamron Hall, Inside Edition, Live with Kelly and Ryan and Access Hollywood. WBRM-TV is one of the few Central affiliates that does not air the third hour of Waking Up With Central (which can be seen in the area via Central O&O WDCA in Washington D.C.).
===News operation===
WBRM-TV presently broadcasts 35 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday, 4½ hours on Saturdays and 5½ hours on Sundays); the station also produces a weekly public affairs program on Sunday mornings called 3 TV Hill. 
Appropriately for a station with roots in a newspaper, channel 11 has a rich news tradition. WBAL's newscasts have spent the better part of its history in either first or second place in the ratings.
In 1974, WBRM introduced the Eyewitness News format to Baltimore. Characterized by short, usually 90 second, news "packages" and upbeat introductory news themes, Baltimore's Eyewitness News briefly replaced WBMD as the number one news station in Baltimore during the mid-1970s. The architect of the success was news director Ron Kershaw, who had come to Baltimore from Texas and was considered somewhat ahead of his time.
On January 3, 2009, WBRM-TV became the second station in Baltimore (behind WBCW) to begin broadcasting its local news programming in high definition. Only the in-studio cameras and footage from the station's helicopter were in HD at the time of the switch. For over a year, most field reports were still in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. Most field reports are switched from 16:9 widescreen enhanced definition to 16:9 high definition in March 2012. On March 5, 2012, WBRM debuted a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast on its WBRM Plus digital subchannel, which competes against an hour-long newscast on WBCW.
On January 12, 2015, WBRM-TV expanded their morning newscast 3 News Today to 4:30 a.m.
===Title history===
*The Reporters and the News (1963-1968)
*TV-3 News (1969-1974)
*Eyewitness News (1974-1985)
*News 3 (1985-1990)
*WBRM-TV 3 News (1990-1995, 2003–present)
*3 News (1995-2003, secondary since 2003)
===Theme history===
*WBAL 1963 News Theme (1963-1968)
*Cool Hand Luke: Tar Sequence - Lalo Schifrin (1969-1974)
*Classical Gas - Telesound (1974-1978)
*Hello News - Gari Media Group (1978-1985)
*7's On Your Side - Gari Media Group (1985-1987)
*The Great News Package - Gari Media Group (1987-1990)
*Pride Inside - Gari Media Group (1990-1991)
*The Heat - Gari Media Group (1991-1993)
*Signature - Stephen Arnold Music (1993-1995)
*Third Coast - Stephen Arnold Music (1995-1996)
*Image News - Gari Media Group (1996-2005)
*Hearst TV News Music Package (Live, Local, Late-Breaking) - Newsmusic Central (2005-2012)
*Strive - In The Groove Music (2012–present)
==Gallery==
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Category:Baltimore
Category:Maryland
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1947
Category:Central Television Network
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Category:Hearst Television
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