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The station first signed on the air on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ; it was the fourth television station to sign on in Chicago. [1] [3] It was also the third of NBC's five original owned-and-operated television stations to begin operations, after WNBC-TV in New York City and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and before WKYC in Cleveland and KNBC in Los Angeles.
WPVN-CD (channel 24) is a low-power, Class A television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The station is owned by Innovate Corp. [ 2 ] WPVN-CD's studios are located on West Belmont Avenue in northwest Chicago, and its transmitter is located atop the John Hancock Center in downtown Chicago.
On November 22, 1987, WTTW's signal was hijacked by an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom mask—the second such signal interruption incident to occur in the Chicago area that night, with the first taking place during the 9 p.m. newscast on independent station WGN-TV (channel 9) two hours prior to the hacker's intrusion of the WTTW signal ...
MeTV on 27.2, Antenna TV on 27.3 Chicago: Chicago: 2 12 WBBM-TV: CBS: Start TV on 2.2, Dabl on 2.3, Fave TV on 2.4 Since February 5, 2024 the ATSC 1.0 broadcast is sharing RF 19 with WGN [1] Chicago: Chicago: 5 33 WMAQ-TV: NBC: Cozi TV on 5.2, Lx on 5.3, Oxygen on 5.4 Chicago: Chicago: 7 22 WLS-TV: ABC: Localish on 7.2, Charge! on 7.3 Chicago ...
The license to cover for WMEU's digital signal was approved by the FCC on June 13, 2011; the station signed on its digital signal one month later on July 11, under the call sign WMEU-CD. [27] However, since WMEU-CD's signal does not cover the entire Chicago market, WCIU continues to simulcast WMEU's programming on digital subchannel 26.2.
WGN-TV also was the first Chicago television station to televise a local appearance by a U.S. President (carrying Harry S. Truman's 1948 visit to Chicago) and provided mobile coverage of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's visit to the city (in April 1951); it has also provided coverage of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions each ...
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Chicago Tonight is a television news program broadcast weeknights on WTTW in Chicago, United States.It reports primarily on local politics, education, business, culture, science, and health, with a mix of in-studio panel discussions, one-on-one interviews, and short documentary-style packages.