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{{Short description|Television station in Portland, Maine}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WCSH
| logo = WCSH NBC 6 Portland, Maine Logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| logo_alt = In a blue box with gray trim, the letters WCSH in a sans serif next to a serif 6 in a red-purple gradient and the NBC peacock.
| branding = WCSH 6; ''News Center Maine''
| digital = 31 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 6
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''6.1:''' [[NBC]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| airdate = {{start date and age|1953|12|20|p=y|br=yes}}
| image = WCSH NewsCenter Maine 2024.svg
| image_alt = The words "News Center" in a bold, all-caps sans serif above the word MAINE, lighter and spread out in a black-bordered box, next to the NBC peacock.
| image_size = 200px
| location = [[Portland, Maine]]
| country = United States
| callsign_meaning = "Congress Square Hotel"
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 6 ([[VHF]], 1953–2009)|'''Digital:''' 44 (UHF, 2002–2020)}}
| owner = [[Tegna Inc.]]
| licensee = TEGNA [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] Broadcasting, [[LLC]]
| sister_stations = [[WLBZ]]
| former_callsigns = WCSH-TV (1953–1997)
| erp = 1,000 kW
| haat = {{convert|587.9|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 39664
| coordinates = {{coord|43|51|30|N|70|42|39|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.newscentermaine.com/}}
}}
'''WCSH''' (channel 6) is a [[television station]] in [[Portland, Maine]], United States, affiliated with [[NBC]] and owned by [[Tegna Inc.]] The station's studios are located on Congress Square in [[Neighborhoods of Portland, Maine|Downtown Portland]], and its transmitter is located on Winn Mountain in [[Sebago, Maine|Sebago]]. Together with [[WLBZ]] (channel 2) in [[Bangor, Maine|Bangor]], which simulcasts most of WCSH's local newscasts, it is known as '''News Center Maine'''.

WCSH is the oldest operating television station in Portland, signing on in December 1953. It was an outgrowth of [[WZAN|WCSH radio]], one of NBC's charter affiliates when it was constituted as a radio network in 1926, and broadcast from its namesake, the Congress Square Hotel in downtown Portland, for nearly 25 years. Founded by [[Henry P. Rines]] and sold to Tegna predecessor [[Gannett Company]] in 1997, it has generally been the highest-rated station in TV news in the market since the mid-1980s.