WGN Sports (sports telecasts) WGN switched to The CW when it launched on September 18, 2006 (WGN America never carried The CW's programming during its final years as WGN-TV's superstation feed, as the network has sufficient broadcast coverage through over-the-air stations, digital multicast channels and cable-only affiliates negating the need for WGN America to provide The CW with additional nationwide coverage). WGN-TV became a charter affiliate of The WB when it launched on January 11, 1995. In 1961, the WGN stations moved to studio facilities on West Bradley Place in the North Center neighborhood, a move undertaken for civil defense concerns in order to provide the station a safe location to broadcast in case of a hostile attack targeting downtown Chicago. WGN-TV maintains studio facilities and offices at 2501 West Bradley Place (between North Campbell and North Talman Avenues) in Chicago's North Center community (as such, it is the only major commercial television station in Chicago with studio facilities located outside the downtown business district), and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. The proposed sale to Fader did not include WGN radio or WGN America.
Previously, White Sox local television broadcasts were split between two channels: the majority of games were broadcast on cable by NBC Sports Chicago, and remaining games were produced by WGN Sports and were broadcast locally on WGN-TV. From September 16, 1989 to December 19, 1992 and from January 8 to July 2, 1994, the station aired In September 1996, the station began carrying The Big Game multi-state drawing (replaced by Throughout its history, WGN-TV has had a long association with Chicago sports, with most of the city's major professional sports franchises – particularly the Chicago Cubs, White Sox, The Cubs and White Sox were the first teams to be carried on the station, when on April 23, 1948, WGN aired a The Bulls began carrying their games with its inaugural season in From November 1978 until October 2014, WGN America frequently simulcast WGN Sports broadcasts (mostly Cubs, White Sox and Bulls games) nationwide, when permitted under the station's sports contracts. 2010–2014. Early on, WGN-TV was affiliated with the WGN-TV soon became one of DuMont's strongest affiliates, as well as a major production center for that network. The prospect of Sinclair acquiring WGN was met with consternation among station employees, due to concerns over the influence the company might have on the station's news content. WGN-TV served as the Chicago affiliate of the United Network for its one month of existence in 1967, airing The Las Vegas Show. WGN America was originally established on November 9, 1978, when United Video Inc. began redistributing the signal of WGN-TV (channel 9) in Chicago, Illinois—which, alongside WGN America, Chicago-based local cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV) and news/talk/sports radio station WGN (720 AM), was among the flagship broadcasting properties of Tribune Media (formerly … Prior to working at WGN/CLTV, Courtney worked for WBBM-TV in Chicago as a reporter and earned the 2014 Illinois Associated Press Award. WGN-TV originally held dual primary affiliations with CBS and the DuMont Television Network, sharing both networks with WBKB (channel 4). The national feed does not run all of WGN's newscasts however, as WGN America has not cleared the 11 a.m.-noon portion of the midday newscast, the weeknight 5 p.m. newscast and the weekend morning newscasts for broadcast on the superstation feed for undetermined reasons; SyndEx rules prohibiting certain segments of the newscast from airing outside the Chicago area reportedly caused the removal of the On August 16, 2010, WGN-TV added an additional half-hour to its weekday morning newscast, running from 4:30-9 a.m.; the station is the third Chicago station to begin its morning newscast at 4:30 a.m., along with NBC O&O WMAQ-TV (which debuted in its current form in 2009), and ABC O&O WLS-TV (which debuted a newscast in that timeslot two weeks earlier).WGN Channel 9 - The Chicagoland Newsreel open from Early-Mid April 1948WGN-TV News - Carl Greyson And The News open from 1965WGN Channel 9 - The Incredible Hulk - Weekdays promo from 1981WGN News - The 9 O'Clock News Weeknight - John Drury promo from 1981WGN TV9 - The Big Valley - Weekdays...Premieres Monday!
WGN-TV had also telecast performances of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, beginning in 1953, when Fritz Reiner was the orchestra's music director. WGN Television was one of several flagship properties owned by the Tribune Company, which also owns radio station WGN's longtime slogan, "Chicago's Very Own", was the basis for a popular image campaign of the 1980s and 1990s, as performed by WGN Television began test broadcasts in February 1948 and began regular programming on April 5 with a two-hour special, "WGN-TV Salute to Chicago", at 7:45 p.m. Elle distribue aussi deux sous-canaux numériques affiliés respectivement à Antenna TV et This TV. On February 4, 2009, Tribune Broadcasting announced it would merge CLTV's operations with channel 9's news department[40][41] (in addition to sharing resources with WGN-TV, CLTV also shares newsgathering resources with the Chicago Tribune). In 1999, at the network's request, Superstation WGN stopped carrying primetime WB and Kids' WB network programming; by this time, The WB felt its national distribution footprint became large enough, after having signed affiliation agreements with over-the-air broadcast stations and the addition of cable-only affiliates on local cable systems in markets where an over-the-air affiliate was not present to where broadcasting WB network programming on WGN-TV's superstation feed was no longer deemed necessary. An historic moment in Chicago's local television programming occurred when Sheldon Cooper launched a musical variety show for 13 weeks entitled "In 1995, WGN-TV became a network affiliate once again when it and all of Tribune's other independent stations joined the newly-launched Initially, Superstation WGN aired WB primetime and children's programming nationally; this was done to make WB programming available in areas not yet served by a WB affiliate.