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1947–1954[]
WMAR-TV first began broadcasting on October 27, 1947. It was the first television station in Maryland, and was the fourteenth commercial television station to sign on in the United States (another two stations were experimental). WMAR was founded by the A. S. Abell Company, publisher of the Sunpapers (The Baltimore Sun and its evening counterpart, The Evening Sun) and was the first completed phase of the Sunpapers' expansion into broadcasting; the newspapers also held construction permits for WMAR-FM, which signed-on at 97.9 MHz (frequency now occupied by WIYY) in January 1948 and a proposed WMAR (AM), which never made it to air (planned for 850, it eventually went on the air in 1955 as WAYE on 860).
On March 29, 1948, WMAR-TV was announced as CBS' third full-time television affiliate, after WCBS-TV in New York City and WCAU-TV (now owned and operated NBC affiliate) in Philadelphia. It also had secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont for its early days, but it later lost both affiliations to upstart WAAM-TV (channel 13, now WJZ-TV) when the station signed on in November.
1954–1958, 1975–1981[]
Also used by KGAN from 1981-1986.
1954-1958[]
1975–1981[]
1958–1960[]
1960–1968[]
1968–1975[]
1981–1995[]
On August 30, 1981, WMAR and WBAL-TV switched affiliations, with WMAR joining NBC. The 1975 Kabel Black '2' logo was slightly redone, adding a line to give it a "split" effect.
1992–1995[]
1995–1998[]
On January 2, 1995, WMAR-TV switched to ABC, with NBC returning to WBAL-TV. The "bisected" 2 was slightly redone, the upper stroke does not reach the diagonal part of the '2' now.
1998–2002[]
2002–2018[]
This logo, and the variants that followed through 2018—is similar to Scripps sister station KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona. KNXV received a similar design around the same time.
2002–2007[]
2007–2012[]
2012–2018[]
2018–present[]
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On April 16, 2018, WMAR-TV changed its branding to "WMAR 2 [News], Working for You," and introduced a new logo incorporating a minor alteration of the 1975–81 "2" design.
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