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WGN-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW.It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is sister to the company's sole radio property, news/talk/sports station WGN (720 AM).
WGN America was an American subscription television network that operated from November 9, 1978 to February 28, 2021. The service was originally uplinked to satellite by United Video Inc. as a national feed of Chicago independent station WGN-TV, making the station's programming available to cable and satellite providers throughout the United States as the second nationally distributed ...
WGN News at Nine (formerly The Nine O'Clock News; simulcast of 9 p.m. newscast; September 1980–January 30, 2014) WGN Midday News (formerly Chicago's Midday News and WGN News at Noon; simulcast of noon-1 p.m. CT portion, 1983–2014) [3] Heritage of Faith (1983–92) Chicago's Very Own (1988–92) $100,000 Fortune Hunt (1989–94) People to ...
WGN America logo, used from January 2014 until it was renamed as NewsNation in March 2021. On September 1, 2020, WGN America launched a three-hour-long prime time newscast, NewsNation, which began development in October 2019, when Nexstar management commissioned research from television subscribers that determined a share of survey participants were dissatisfied with opinion-based programming ...
Since WGN America (the former national feed of WGN-TV, which began converting into a news channel as NewsNation in March 2021) converted into a conventional cable channel in 2014, no national superstations exist in the United States and the six remaining regional superstations are limited to distribution via Dish Network and C-band satellite as ...
WGN may refer to: "World's Greatest Newspaper", former slogan of the Chicago Tribune and the namesake for the WGN broadcasting outlets in Chicago, Illinois. WGN (AM), a radio station (720 AM) licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States; WGN-TV, a television station (channel 9.1 virtual/19 digital) licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States
A major factor in this decision was WGN-TV's large use of local sports programming at the time, which led to many pre-emptions of The CW while WGN-TV had to move as many as 30 games a year to another local station in Chicago. [180] The CW affiliation moved to WPWR-TV, a Fox Television Stations-owned MyNetworkTV station. [181]
The channel began operations on January 1, 1993, originally broadcasting out of studios located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.On February 4, 2009, the Tribune Company announced that it would combine CLTV's operations with the company's flagship television station WGN-TV, though CLTV would continue to operate as a standalone cable news channel.