WGN-TV , virtual channel 9 (UHF 19 digital channel), is an independent television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States, serves as the main television property of a Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company, which also has WGN radio stations (720 AM) and the local cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV). The digital sub-channels of both stations serve as TV Antenna TV stations owned and operated by classical TV stations.
WGN-TV manages studio and office facilities at 2501 West Bradley Place in the North Center Chicago community area (thus, this is the only major commercial television station in Chicago with studio facilities located outside the downtown business district), and its transmitter is located above the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop.
WGN-TV is also a pioneering superstation, and previously programmed alternative feeds for cable and satellite customers across the United States and selected Canadian areas. The former "superstation", WGN America, was converted by the Tribune into a conventional basic cable network in December 2014 through channel deletion of all WGN-TV news, sports and event shows produced and concurrent additions to cable providers in the Chicago market (including Comcast Xfinity, AT & amp; T U-verse, WOW! And RCN) - in addition to local trains on DirecTV and Dish Network satellite services. However, WGN-TV regains national availability as the Chicago area feed is included as part of an initial offer of LinearTV Channel Master service, launched in spring 2015.
The old slogan of WGN, "Chicago's Own Own" (which has been used by stations since its introduction in 1983), was the basis for the popular 1980s and 1990s drawing campaigns, as did the native of Chicago, Lou Rawls.
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Histori
Awal tahun (1948-1956)
WGN Television started experimental broadcasts in February 1948 and started a regular program on April 5 with two special hours, WGN-TV Salute to Chicago , at 7:45 am. that night. It was founded by the Chicago Tribune - the slogan " W orld's G reatest N ewspaper" is the basis for the summons used by television stations and his brother's radio. WGN-TV initially holds two major affiliates with CBS and DuMont Television Network, sharing both networks with WBKB (channel 4). During the first 13 years in the air, WGN-TV has operated from the Tribune Tower with their brother's radio station on 435 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, the space currently occupied by Dylan's Candy Bar.
Channel 9 lost its CBS affiliate as a sidebar for the February merger of ABC and United Paramount Theaters; at the time, CBS had purchased a VHF 4 channel license in Chicago (now WBBM-TV, which then moved to channel 2, forcing Phonevision out of the air) from United Paramount Theaters - which absorbed the founders of WBKB, Balaban and Katz in 1949, after the US Supreme Court order forced Paramount Pictures to divest its cinema network - for $ 6.75 million, as the newly-joined entity could not keep the WBKB and the station owned and operated by ABC, WENR-TV (channel 7, now WLS-TV ) Because Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations are then enacted that prohibit the public ownership of two television stations licensed to the same market. After a two-month cancellation clause, all CBS programs broadcasted by WGN-TV are moved to an improved WBBM-TV, leaving channel 9 exclusively with DuMont.
WGN-TV soon became one of DuMont's strongest affiliates, as well as a major production center for the network. Some DuMont programs are produced from station facilities, including the The Al Morgan Show , Chicago Symphony , Chicagoland Mysterious Players , Music From Chicago , The Music Show , They Stand Accused , It's Music , Windy City Jamboree and Down You Go . WGN-TV has also shown performances from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, starting in 1953, when Fritz Reiner is the director of orchestral music.
Independence (1956-1995)
The station lost its DuMont affiliates when the network ceased operations on August 6, 1956; at that point, WGN-TV became an independent station. Channel 9 then spends most of the next two decades as the top independent in Chicago, offering a variety of public entertainment programs including movies, sports, network reruns and children's programs. For much of its existence, WGN-TV generated a large number of its own programs in his studio. A historic moment on Chicago television occurred when Sheldon Cooper launched The All-Time Hits, a 13-week-long musical variety show featuring The Buckinghams; program is broadcast in color. During the late 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. In 1957, WGN-TV became one of the first television stations on the Chicago market to broadcast a live color program.
The leading WGN-TV productions of the 1960s through the 1980s included several incarnations of the hugely popular circus Bozo's Circus Ray Rayner and His Friends, Garfield Goose and Friends i> (hosted by Frazier Thomas, who also hosted popular family movie shows at stations titled Family Classics ), The Mulqueens , and the series popular children's education The Space Explorers . WGN-TV served as Chicago's affiliate of the United Network for a month of its existence in 1967, broadcasting The Las Vegas Show . From 1974 to 1982, Don Donue's syndicated talk show Donahue came from the WGN-TV studio. In 1975, the US agricultural program. Farm Report debuted in the national syndication, also from the WGN-TV studio.
In 1961, WGN station moved to a studio facility in West Bradley Place in the North Central neighborhood, a move done on civil defense issues to provide a safe location station for broadcast in the case of a hostile attack targeting downtown Chicago. Radio WGN eventually moved back to North Michigan Avenue at the Pioneer Court extension in 1986, then returned to the Tribune Tower in October 2012; Television stations, however, remain at the Bradley Place facility to this day.
In 1968, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prohibited companies from owning newspapers and broadcasting outlets in the same market; The FCC granted the Tribune Company the permission to incorporate a combination of Chicago Tribune , WGN-TV and WGN radio through a cross-ownership abandonment. In 2014, the Tribun entered into a local marketing agreement with Venture Technologies Group, owner of WKQX-LP, a low-power analogue television station on VHF 6 channel that uses word play in the FM band plan to broadcast audio formats on radio over 87.7 FM ; this became a sports chat station operated as a sibling station to WGN radio. The station, which changed its call to the WGWG-LP, is not covered under the FCC limitation (this issue becomes moot with the Tribune splitting of the Tribune Company); The Tribune's LMA with WGWG-LP (now WRME-LP) ended on February 23, 2015, when it was transferred to Weigel Broadcasting and converted into an old/beautiful music format as a radio extension of the company's MeTV brand. National superstation (1978-1990)
WGN-TV began to be distributed throughout the United States on cable television in October 1978, after Tulsa, the Oklahoma United Video Satellite Group raised station signals via satellite. This signal is taken by many cable providers, as well as directly to satellite owners, turning WGN-TV into one of the first superstations, along with WOR-TV New York City (now WWOR-TV) and WTBS Atlanta (now WPCH-TV).
When WGN-TV gained national exposure, the station became vulnerable in the Chicago area and underestimated the ability of UFF competitor WFLD (channel 32, now Fox owned and operated) to obtain a high-end syndication program (such as> M * A * S * H ​​â € < â € <, Happy Days and All in Family ). As a result, WFLD rose in front of WGN-TV in the rankings at the end of 1979. WGN-TV continued with its programming format, competing with WFLD and other independent UHF stations, WSNS-TV (channel 44, now Telemundo owned- and operated stations). WSNS will leave the competition when it is affiliated with ONTV subscription television service during a curfew in 1980, becoming a full-time affiliate in 1982. On November 10, 1984, WGN-TV became an affiliate of the MGM/UA Premiere Network, a film-based ad hoc television network , with the show Clash of the Titans .
On 19 May 1988, the FCC endorsed the Syndicated Exclusivity Rights (or "SyndEx") rules, which require cable providers to dissolve syndicated programs shown on any station outside the market, if a television station gets exclusive air rights exclusively. specific programs. When the law came into force on 1 January 1990, WGN-TV launched a separate national feed supplied with an alternative program with no station claiming exclusive rights in any market (along with sporting events, news broadcasts and some shows aired in WGN-TV is also not subject to claims of exclusivity). In September 1994, the station transferred the Bozo Show from a long weekday morning slot to Sunday morning, where it remained and was eventually reformatted to conform to the FCC's educational programming guidelines until the program was discontinued controversially by management station in 2001.
WB affiliation (1995-2006)
On November 2, 1993, the Warner Bros. division. Television Time Warner and the Tribune Company announced the creation of The WB; through a part-ownership network, the Tribune signed an agreement for the majority affiliation of an independent company station with the network. Although its parent company will be a partner in The WB, WGN-TV was originally planned to remain an independent station due to concerns by station management by balancing network affiliations and meeting the station's broadcasting sports commitments. However, regardless of the reason, the station competes with WPWR-TV (channel 50) to become a chartered affiliate of the Chicago United Paramount Network (UPN), another network planned by Chris-Craft/United Television in partnership with Paramount Television; UPN chose to sign an affiliation agreement with WPWR on November 10, 1993.
WGN-TV subsequently reversed its previous decision to reject WB affiliates, and signed an affiliate agreement with the network one month later on December 3, 1993; prior to signing the agreement, the network had planned to affiliate with competing independent WGBO-TV (channel 66), who instead joined Univision two weeks prior to the launch of The WB on December 30, 1994. As part of the agreement, WGN will bring the prime time schedule of WB (and after his debut in September 1995, WB children's children's program) at his national superstation, with the aim of making the network available to the United States where The WB has no affiliation from the start.
WGN-TV became the affiliate of The WB's charter when it was launched on January 11, 1995. Channel 9 only aired prime-time network programming until 2004; Saturday and Saturday Children's blocks are scheduled to be shown locally in the former affiliated Univision WCIU-TV (channel 26), which has been converted into an English-language independent station on the same date as WGBO into a Univision-owned and operated station, through a separate Agreement on February 19, 1995. As with other affiliate-WB stations during the network's early years, WGN-TV was basically continuously programmed as an independent de facto station. WGN programming after becoming a WB affiliate has remained unchanged, as the network only broadcast a major time show on Wednesday night at its launch and will not carry a six-night week program until September 1999 (runs Sunday through Friday). The feature films fill the time period that leads to the late-night news broadcast of the station on the nights when the network program is off the air, eventually degraded to Saturday in 1999. In addition to the WB programming, the station airs the Action Pack programming block at least in 1995.
The WB expands the coverage of over-the-air affiliates over time, and launches wire-affiliate groups just for areas where it can not align with over-the-air stations; this was created using a superstation feed as the default affiliate no longer needed as a result, leading to the October 1999 network request that WGN stop bringing WB programs outside the Chicago market. In 2000, WGN-TV set up a new newsroom in the eastern part of its studio facility, increasing the building space to 29,000 square feet (the original newsroom converted to station weather center). In 2004, WGN-TV began broadcasting Chicago Cubs, White Sox and Bulls in high definition.
Affiliate CW (2006-2016)
On January 24, 2006, Warner Bros. unit Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that both companies will close The WB and UPN. In their place, the company will combine the programming of each of the two networks to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. On the same date, The CW signed WGN-TV as a Chicago affiliate network as part of a ten-year agreement that saw Tribune Broadcasting signing 16 of 18 other WB affiliated stations at that time to serve as a network charter station. WGN turned to CW when it was launched on September 18, 2006 (WGN America has never implemented CW programming during its final years as a WGN-TV feed superstation, since it has enough broadcast coverage through over-the-air stations, digital multicast channels and cable affiliates that exclude the need for WGN America to provide CW with additional national coverage).
On April 2, 2007, Chicago investor Sam Zell announced plans to buy the Tribune Company, with the intention of taking publicly traded private companies; The deal was completed on December 20, 2007. Prior to the closing of the sale, WGN-TV was one of two commercial television stations in Chicago (excluding network owned networks) to never engage in ownership transactions (WCIU is another one, owned by Weigel Broadcasting since sign-on in February 1964). The Tribune then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2008, owing to debts earned from Zell's leveraged purchases and the costs of the privatization of the company; Tribune emerged from bankruptcy in December 2012 under the control of its senior debt holders Oaktree Capital Management, Angelo, Gordon & amp; Co and JPMorgan Chase.
On October 13, 2008, WGN-TV began a partnership with WGN radio to provide weather forecasts for the station; it replaces The Weather Channel as a content partner, as the cable network terminates its ten-year forecast partnership with WGN radio on that date. On February 4, 2009, Tribune Broadcasting announced it would combine CLTV operations with channel news department 9 (in addition to sharing resources with WGN-TV, CLTV also shared newsgathering resources with the Chicago Tribune). In 2009, WGN-TV started streaming during the day and 5:00 noon. live news broadcast on its website. On February 22, 2010, WGN-TV became the first television station on the Chicago market to allow iPhone users to watch live broadcasts; blocks from 6:00 to 9:00 from WGN Morning News , noon and 5:00 am. news broadcasts initially available for streaming to iPhone users; now, all news broadcasts are broadcast through the station's website and on Apple devices, although the sports segment is blocked (served only with audio feeds) due to rights restrictions with major sports leagues.
On July 10, 2013, the Tribune announced plans to separate its publishing division into a separate company. After the split was settled on 4 August 2014, ending the station's joint ownership with the
As a CW affiliate, WGN-TV has become one of the higher ranking affiliates in terms of viewing, often attracting more viewers than Fox's WFLD, even in prime time despite Fox's latest program. As was the case for the last two years as a WB affiliate, WGN-TV broadcasted the entire schedule of CW networks, including network children's program block (Children's WB, The CW4Kids/Toonzai, Vortexx and One Magnificent Morning); However, from September 2013 to disaffiliated from the network, it has aired The Bill Cunningham Show - which aired as part of The CW Daytime - an hour earlier (2:00) from other networks of Central Time Affiliates Zone, in line with the time aired in Eastern Time Zone.
Return to independence (2016-present)
On May 23, 2016, Tribune Broadcasting and CW reached a five-year affiliate agreement renewing network affiliation with twelve CW-affiliate Tribune stations through the 2020-21 television season; the agreement came after a one-year dispute between the managing partners of CW CBS Corporation and the Tribune regarding financial requirements, in particular the amount of reverse compensation that CW requested from CW group affiliates.
When negotiating terms of agreement with CBS Corporation, Tribune Broadcasting decided not to renew CW affiliation with WGN-TV after the initial ten-year network agreement with the Tribune ended on 31 August 2016. With this, the Tribune announced that Channel 9 would be an independent station on September 1 , filling the time slot previously occupied by the CW network shows with additional syndication programs and extended weekly morning news broadcasts, and in particular, an increase in prime time game time involving the Chicago Cubs, White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks during the calendar year. CW affiliates will then move to MyNetworkTV station owned and operated by WPWR-TV (which will mark the second time Fox TV Station has a CW-affiliated station, since it operates the Charlotte sister station WJZY as a CW affiliate for approximately 3Ã,½ months after the closing of the station's purchase in April 2013, honoring the affiliate contract that's already scheduled to expire before the WJZY conversion into Fox O & amp; O announced).
Step thrust - which marks the first time in 21 years that WGN-TV will not be affiliated with major broadcast networks - is to alleviate scheduling issues with station sports programs due to contractual terms set by The CW (and by The WGN-TV). Previous WB) that limits the number of daytime and prime time programming preemptions that can be performed annually (beyond the required news coverage), resulting in WGN having to maintain buy-time agreements with other local stations - WCIU-TV from 1999 to 2015, and then WPWR-TV afterward - to delay some aired games assigned to produce and broadcast. During his tenure with The WB and The CW, WGN must record delayed network delay programs for sporting events scheduled for specific programming hours for broadcast on weekends (usually on Saturday and/or Sunday nights, since The CW does not air prime programs time on weekends, the station did not show any delayed CW program on Sunday night until the network handed out a five hour prime time slot to its affiliates in September 2009).
On July 12, 2016, Tribune Broadcasting appointed Paul Rennie as President and General Manager of WGN-TV. The last CW program to broadcast on WGN-TV is Who is Line Is It Anyway? at 8:30. Central Time on August 31, 2016, headed for the station's main news broadcast. All CW networking programs moved to WPWR the following day on September 1st, starting with the day's broadcast of The Bill Cunningham Show with the existing MyNetworkTV station program being diverted into the air after CW's prime time schedule on Monday until Friday night. Thus, WPWR replaced WLVI in Boston (owned by Tribune Broadcasting from 1994 to sell television stations to Sunbeam Television in 2006) as the largest CW station not owned by the Tribune or CBS Corporation (the latest subsidiary of the television station, CBS Television Station , has WBBM-TV (channel 2), which is the largest CBS-owned and operated station that is not operated as part of the duopoly).
On May 8, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it would acquire Tribune Media for $ 3.9 billion, subject to government approval. Sinclair's prospect of obtaining WGN is filled with concern among station employees, as concerns over possible corporate influence on station news content. Sinclair has been known for requiring his station to run news reports and comments reflecting a conservative perspective; The city of Chicago and some adjacent suburbs are generally liberal, while some remote areas elsewhere in the slim market are conservative. However, Sinclair then announced it would sell WGN-TV and the WPIX sister station in New York City to a third party which will be determined later, in order to comply with the FCC's ownership limit. On February 28, 2018, the Tribune filed for WGN-TV to sell to a limited company controlled by Steven Fader, a Maryland auto dealer who has been a business associate for executive chairman Sinclair David Smith, for $ 60 million; under terms of agreement, Sinclair will provide programming and sales services to the station, and will have the option to purchase WGN-TV live in eight years. The proposed sale to Fader does not include WGN or WGN America radio.
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Digital television
Digital channels
Digital station signals duplicated:
Subchannels
As of June 2008, subchannels.2 became LATV affiliates. On January 1, 2011, Tribune launched the Antenna TV programming service in the 0.2 station sub-channel. On May 13, 2013, Tribune Broadcasting announced that they would replace Weigel Broadcasting (which, like the Tribune, is headquartered in Chicago and decided to abandon the joint venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to concentrate on the same formatted movie movie channel! ) of the classic television network MeTV) as a partner on this TV on November 1 of that year. As a result, the Chicago affiliate network moved to WGN-TV on that date on a new 9.3 digital sub-channel.
Analog-to-digital Transitions
WGN-TV turned off its analog signal, via VHF 9 channel, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which the full-power television stations in the United States shifted from analog to digital broadcasting under federal mandate. The station's digital signals continue to broadcast on pre-transition UHF channels 19. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as an earlier VHF analog channel 9. Although not a participant in the SAFER Act, WWME-CA (channel 23) simulcast WGN-TV 9 : 00a, pm news broadcast (except in sports delays) and WMAQ-TV (channel 5) morning and afternoon newscasts through July 12 to provide analog "lifelines" for an audience that is not ready or who has reception problems after the digital transition.
Programming
Due to the heavy news schedule, WGN, despite returning to its status as an independent after ending 21 years of network affiliates, only broadcasts a four-hour syndicated program in daytime schedules on weekdays. The syndication program at WGN-TV (as of September 2017) includes Maury , Crime Watch Daily , Rachael Ray , Two Half Men , and Mother
Prior to the effective separation of the two services in December 2014, WGN-TV and the basic feed-changing basic cable channel that became the foundations of WGN America had very different program offerings because of the syndicated exclusivity rule; although local and national baits initially shared a large number of general programming after SyndEx law was implemented, WGN-TV and the American WGN schedule became increasingly different during the 1990s and 2000s. In 2013, the WGN-TV's only Tribune program holds a full-signal broadcast of national air rights at WGN America including local news and sports programs, select specials and special events (such as McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade and Mummer Parade); public affairs program People to People and Adelante, Chicago ; limited supply of off-network syndication reruns; religious program Singsasi! , Discover the Truth and Tomorrow's World ; and select widescreen movies (served in time slots different from those in WGN-TV/Chicago). Likewise, WGN-TV does not carry the original drama series WGN America Salem or Manhattan outside the promotional preview promo (as a result and before the channel was added by the Chicago-area cabling system, native WGN programming America can only be seen in the Chicago market by DirecTV and Dish Network customers, although WGN America has also made arrangements to stream both series through Hulu).
News operations
WGN-TV currently broadcast 70 ½ hours of locally-produced news releases every week (by 12 ½ hours on weekdays and four hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in terms of the number of hours devoted to locally produced news events, this is the highest newscast output of any television station in Chicago and the state of Illinois. In addition, the station generates Instant Replay , a 20-minute spotlight program that airs on Sunday night for the last 20 minutes from 9:00 pm. broadcast news and guided by Dan Roan's old sporting director. Since July 8, 2010, CLTV aired a half-hour edition of WGN-TV 9:00 TV broadcasts. Newscasts on certain nights where WGN-TV is scheduled to broadcast a sporting event held on the West Coast at 09:00. (an additional half-hour live news later airs after the game on WGN-TV). The WGN-TV news department is famous for its long-life on-air news staff, with many news anchories working on channel 9 for at least ten years. WGN-TV is also the largest television station based on market size that is a broadcast partner in the WeatherBug real-time automated weather monitoring network.
News has played an important role at WGN-TV since the beginning of the station, partly because of its relationship with the Chicago Tribune . From the sign-on station, WGN generated late night news broadcasts as well as Nightbeat, a 15-minute news broadcast overnight (when the program was canceled in 1983, Nightbeat was usually presented as an introduction from the late night station presentation of the station). In 1965, WGN-TV introduced the first newsreader team, Gary Park and Jim Ruddle. On March 10, 1980, WGN-TV debuted with the first primetime news broadcast in the Midwest, at half hour at 10:00 pm. newscast (later given the title John Drury and Newsnine ) until 9:00. and expand it into an hour, launching it as The Nine O'Clock News . The second half hour of the program was dropped on June 9, 1980, with news broadcasts accompanied by 9:30 am. by syndication of the nationwide Independent Network News produced by the WPIX sister station in New York City; INN was paired with local prime time news releases until the cancellation of a national program in June 1990.
Since reformatting as a major newscast, WGN-TV has been a ranking leader at 9:00 pm. timeslot, with or without news competition in the arena. In the spring of 1988, The Nine O'Clock News (finally titled WGN News at Nine in 1993, when the station brings together the branding of all newscasts under the moniker "WGN News") gained competition when Fox-owned and operated station, WFLD - which launched the news department in August 1987 with a half-hour premiere at 7:00 and 11:00. news broadcasts - consolidating those programs into one broadcast that goes up against WGN newscasts that have been formed at 09:00. While the WFLD aggressively markets new news releases to younger viewers and fresher styles than the more traditional WGN news format, viewers remain faithful to channel 9, which remains ranked # 1 at 9:00 since then. For this reason, the WFLD relocated its main newscast to its previous time slot in September 1988, leaving WGN as the only 9:00 newscast on the Chicago market; the two stations will become competitors again in September 1989, when the WFLD returns to put its press release against WGN in the 9:00 slot, in anticipation of Fox's prime time schedule expansion plan.
In 1984, WGN made its debut one hour news broadcast at noon on noon every Monday to Friday, originally under the title Newscope . The midday news broadcast will eventually evolve to 90 minutes (starting at 11:30 am) on September 15, 2008, and then to two hours (11:00 am) on October 5, 2009. The station made its first attack on a weekend morning. news with the debut of news broadcasts during 8:00 am on Saturdays and Sundays in 1992 (an unusual situation given that the morning morning newscasts will not debut for two more years); the Sunday edition was canceled in September 1994 - simultaneously with the 'Bozo Show' move to Sunday morning due to the launch of WGN Morning News during the morning workdays; the Saturday edition finally followed in 1998. The weekend morning newscast was returned on October 2, 2010, with a one-hour edition debut at 6:00 am on Saturday and Sunday.
The station stopped the children's morning work program on September 6, 1994, replacing them with an hour WGN Morning News ; the news broadcast gradually evolved over time: first to two hours in January 1996, then to three hours from 6:00 to 9:00 am eight months later, with a half-hour expansion in January 2001 (being 5: 30 am), January 2004 (until 5:00 am), August 16, 2010 (until 4:30 am), and July 11, 2011 (until 4:00 am), with an expansion of one hour (up to 10:00 am) on September 3, 2013. In July 1996, WGN-TV began using the Eurocopter AS350 B2 helicopter for the news gathering event, "Skycam 9," which is used for news events and specific traffic reporting.
On November 1, 2007, WGN debuted a new music news package Chicago's Very Own by 615 Music (which shared its name with John Hegner's news theme used from 1993 to 1997). On July 19, 2008, WGN-TV became the third television station on the Chicago market to start broadcasting its local news broadcasts in high definition (as of July 2010, WGN-TV is the first station on the market to broadcast all local parts coming from news broadcasts, including Direct field reports, in HD, are different from other major English language news stations in Chicago, all of which broadcast in-studio segments in HD and some or all of their live field footage in standard 16: 9 definition screens).
WGN first launched a news broadcast on the night of September 15, 2008, when it aired the WGN Evening News, a half-hour program at 5:30 am. Monday to Friday. The evening news broadcasts were expanded to one hour (starting at 5:00) on October 5, 2009, and then until Saturday and Sunday night on July 12, 2014; the weekly edition of the news broadcast was then expanded to cover a second hour (starting at 4:00 pm) two months later on September 8, 2014, and then up to three hours (extended until 6:00 pm) on April 4, 2017. On October 5, 2015, the station recovered at 10:00 newscast - which only airs from Monday to Friday - into the schedule after 35 years.
National trains at WGN America
From 1978 until the conversion of the channel into a conventional cable network in 2014, WGN America brought news and public affairs programs from WGN-TV. As a WGN-TV superstation feed, they initially used the first incarnation of 10:00 in the afternoon. news broadcasts, and then the main news broadcast is currently launched in March 1980, as well as Nightbeat and the previous incarnation of the morning radio news broadcasts of the radio stations it produced during the 1990s. From 1990 until the program was dropped from the channel on January 30, 2014, Sunday night 9:00 WGN-TV. news broadcasts are sometimes preceded outside Chicago if the right issue prevents sports television broadcasts scheduled to begin on or passes at 9:00 pm. Central Time from cleared for broadcast at WGN America. The midday news also occasionally comes first - though, much less frequently - because the Cubs or White Sox game starts at WGN-TV/WGN America at 12:00 noon. local time. The syndicated exclusivity rule of the paid segment shown in the newscast (because the WGN-TV sales department negotiates appearances and requirements, which will result in higher tariff charges if the segment is nationally published) reportedly resulted in the early removal of WGN Morning News from WGN America in September 1996 (the only known incident in which SyndEx rules resulted in the preemption of a news program about cable providers outside its main broadcast area); the simulcast of WGN Morning News returned to the national channel on February 3, 2014, when WGN America began airing at 4:00 pm, a.m.
For unknown reasons, the superstate feed never cleans the 11:00 noon hour of the midday news, weekend and weekend newscasts added by WGN-TV between 2008 and the start of the American WGN conversion to a conventional cable channel. From 2008 to 2014, WGN-TV newscasters refer to the US WGN television broadcast at the start of a news broadcast on weekdays (except in case when news broadcasts are triggered by feed superstation). All news simulcasts were dropped from the American WGN on December 13, 2014, although some cable providers carrying channels on their limited basic programming level continued to simulcast the first two hours of the weekday newscast news on temporary till the train agreement was changed to allow the national WGN to move to their expanded base level.
WGN America brings WGN-TV coverage of the Chicago Cubs' victory parade to win the 2016 World Series on November 4, 2016 in full, even though the same coverage was also broadcast by MLB Network.
Ratings
Station at 9:00 pm news broadcasts typically receive much higher views than the competing WFLD newscasts in the slot, regardless of the latest Fox programming sequence, and generally have a larger audience than 10:00 pm. news broadcast on CBS's CBD-WBBM. The WGN Morning News also attracted a large number of viewers in the Chicago market, often coming in first place overall, more than the morning news program WFLD Good Day Chicago .
In the local Nielsen ratings in May 2015, WGN's news broadcasts ranked third overall among Chicago television stations. At 9 o'clock in the evening. news broadcasts are dominated by the only WFLD prime time news contender with a rating of 4.3 (up 5% from the May 2014 sweeping period) and placed first across major demographic ranges (including adults, men and women aged 25-54, and adults 18-49), in addition to defeating WBBM-TV 10: 00Ã, pm newscast for third place among Chicago market weekend newscasts. The morning newscast is tied (with WLS-TV) in all demographics at 5:00 and 6:00 AM, second in total viewers at 7:00 am and first among the big demos over the last four hours of the broadcast; while the midday news broadcast beat WLS-TV's Windy City Live talk show in all key demographics during 11:00 am. The station also ranks second among the evening newscasts across all the younger demographics (behind WLS - TV) with a 50% increase in views at 4:00 pm compared to syndicated programming that filled the clock in May 2014 On the local rankings of February 2015, at 9:00 pm. news broadcasts placed first among the headlines of market time with a 5.0 rating, which although down 0.3 compared to February 2014, is still ahead of the 2.5 WFLD ranking for late news releases.
News team
- Jackie Bange
- And Ponce
- Lourdes Duarte
- Joe Donlon
- The Weather Team
In addition to providing weather forecasts for WGN-TV, the Weathercenter WGN Team also provides estimates for the Chicago Tribune, WGN (720Ã, kHz) and CLTV.
- Tom Skilling (AMS Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist
- Journalist
- Nancy Loo - common task reporter
- Dean Richards - entertainment reporter and movie critic
Notable former on-air staff
Sports programming
Throughout its history, WGN-TV has had a long relationship with the Chicago sport. Each of the city's premier professional sports franchises, along with several local college teams, has played their games regularly on television on channel 9. WGN-TV maintains contracts with Chicago Cubs, White Sox, Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks for the right to broadcast the game they (with some local television rights shared with Comcast SportsNet Chicago); because WGN network affiliate contracts limit the number of programming preemptions each year, some games produced by stations may even be broadcast locally on WPWR-TV (some WGN-TV broadcast games previously aired on WCIU-TV from 1999 to 2014). WGN-TV also distributes the White Sox and Bulls broadcasts to television stations in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa within each of the team-designated market areas (including WHO-DT twin stations in Des Moines and WQAD in Davenport, Iowa, which both carry games in digital subchannels, and fellow CW WISH-TV affiliates in Indianapolis).
WGN Sports has historically had a long relationship with the Chicago Cubs, dating ownership of both organizations under the Tribune Company from 1981 to 2008. In November 2013, the team exercised an option to terminate the existing deal with WGN after the 2014 season (initially ends in 2022), and demanded a higher-value contract lasting during the 2019 season. On January 7, 2015, WGN-TV announced that it will retain broadcasting rights for 45 Cubs games per season until the 2019 season, all of which will air on the Chicago market ; the remaining games are aired by Comcast SportsNet Chicago and stations owned and operated by ABC, WLS-TV.
When permitted under his contract, WGN America occasionally airs a national simulcast of the WGN sports program. In May 2014, the Tribune announced that it will no longer broadcast WGN Sports at WGN America starting 2015. Tribune Media president and CEO Peter Liguori cites limited views and advertising revenue generated from sports broadcasts relative to the cost (the Cubs package costs five times more for the cost of own right as incoming revenue), as a reason for change.
However, WGN-TV broadcasts from Cubs and White Sox games are often available on the DirecTV version of the MLB Extra Innings package, sometimes complete with local ads and station promos not featured on the WGN America in recent years. This also applies to WGN-produced games featured on WPWR-TV, as well as WLS-TV broadcasts.
On October 1, 2012, WGN-TV aired a Monday Night Football game between Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys locally (NFL rules require national games broadcast by cable networks to be syndicated to broadcasting stations in the team's home market participation ). Although WLS-TV has the first right of refusal to MNF because its parent majority ownership Mayt Disney Company ESPN, WLS continues to bring the game to broadcast Dancing with the Stars Other locally produced programming
In addition to newscasting, WGN-TV also produces other non-news or topical local programs; this includes the public affairs program People to People (hosted by Micah Materre anchor, which includes local and national news and community events from last week) and Adelante, Chicago (hosted) by the anchor of Lourdes Duarte, featuring discussions and feature segments focused on the Hispanic community of Chicago), aired weekly on Saturday mornings; and Chicago's Best lifestyle programs (hosted by Brittney Payton and Elliott Bambrough, focusing on cuisine, attractions, and events in Chicago). In addition, the station broadcasts several local events including the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade, and the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia (with arrangements with MyNetworkTV's affiliated sister stations in the market, WPHL-TV); WGN-TV previously held the rights to Bud Pawiken Parade from 1978 to 2012, with WLS-TV (which has also aired the march since 1984) gaining primary rights for the broadcast starting in 2013.
WGN-TV is the last station of origin for the Illinois Lottery, whose images are taken twice a day at Bradley Place studios, until October 1, 2015, when the lottery starts using a random number generator from their headquarters to draw the winning numbers. WGN-TV lost the rights to the Illinois Lottery lottery to the Fox-owned WFLD in 1987, and later regained rights from CBS's CBS-WBBM in 1994. Except for examples where night images could not be broadcast due to sports permit restrictions that blocked broadcasts news from airs outside of Chicago, all images (including Mega Millions and Powerball multi-state) are broadcast simultaneously at WGN America, which until they were dropped by the channel on December 12, 2014, making Illinois the only state - run a lottery in the US the picture is broadcast nationally.
WGN-TV in Canada
In Canada, WGN-TV is available on most cable providers as well as in satellite providers Bell TV and Shaw Direct, typically as part of a la carte superstation package available to premium cable channel subscribers (such as The Movie Network and his brother The Movie Network Encore , Movie Center, Super Channel, and Encore Avenue). Bell TV always brings food in the Chicago area, in lieu of the station's current superstation; However, Shaw Direct and many cable providers in the country replaced WGN America with WGN-TV/Chicago on January 17, 2007, as Shaw Broadcast Services (a major supplier of WGN feed superstations in Canada) diverted WGN feeds distributed within countries from superstations to regional signals Chicago.
As a result of its transport by Canadian cable and satellite providers, WGN-TV provides CW network programs to most Canadian regions located further away from the US border and therefore may be beyond the reach of over-the-air signals from other CW affiliates from city- an American city located near the Canadian-US border. WGN sports results are also available in Canada through this facility, due to the complete blackout of programming whose rights are owned by Canadian broadcasters only applicable to US special channels conducted in Canada, rather than over-the-air channels. However, the simultaneous substitution rule may still apply to CW programming that is also aired by Canadian terrestrial channels. The WGN feed has been used for NHL Center Ice on some systems.
Since the channel conversion of the superstation became the basic cable channel the day before, Tribune Broadcasting sent a notice on December 15, 2014, that it would stop all national distribution rights for WGN America in Canada effective January 1, 2015. Canada Canada Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC ) has approved the signals of its Chicago station broadcaster and its national cable feeds for transport to domestic multi-channel video programming distributors (including cable providers, satellites, IPTV and MMDS), the move may be because the genre protection rules are then enforced by the Commission prohibits the format of general entertainment programming by domestic or overseas cable channels. The distribution of WGN-TV in the country is not affected by the changes, as it is still official for domestic distribution as a superstation.
See also
- Max Headroom intrusion signal broadcast - the incident of broadcast signal intrusion that affected the station in November 1987.
References
External links
- Official website
- WGN America
- Request for FCC TV station database for WGN-TV
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