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The company was founded by Chicago broadcasting veteran John Weigel, whose career dated back to the 1930s. With $1,000 of his own money and another $1,000 from his attorney, Daniel J. McCarthy, Weigel bought the broadcasting license for what became the first UHF television station in the Chicago area. WCIU signed on the air on February 6, 1964.
WBEZ was among the earliest FM stations in Chicago. first went on the air on April 7, 1943, [4] carrying instructional programming for the Chicago Public Schools. [5] [6] However, initially only a few classrooms were able to tune in, because most did not have FM receivers. [5] It originally broadcast at 42.5 MHz, before moving to 91.5 MHz in ...
Chicago Public Media (CPM) is a not-for-profit radio and print media company. CPM operates as the primary National Public Radio member organization for Chicago. It owns three non-commercial educational FM broadcast stations and one FM translator. In addition to local news and information productions, it produces the programs Wait Wait...
FuboTV was the first live-TV streaming service to support 4K HDR video (2018 World Cup), and was the first to adopt an industry standard for handling sports blackouts. [7] In December 2018, Fubo announced that it was going to expand into Spain.
WMAQ-TV logo, used from 1992 to 1995. The '5' in this logo, set in Helvetica, was also used from 1976 to 1985. Although NBC had long owned the WMAQ radio stations, the television station continued to maintain a callsign separate from those used by its co-owned radio outlets; this changed on August 31, 1964, when the network changed the station's calls to WMAQ-TV.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivers his 2024 State of the State and budget address on Feb. 21, 2024 ©BlueRoomStream
WPWR-TV (channel 50), branded as Fox Chicago Plus, is a television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States.It is one of two commercial television stations in the Chicago market to be licensed in Indiana (alongside WJYS [channel 62] in Hammond).
Two major daily newspapers are published in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.The former has the larger circulation. There are also a number of regional and special-interest newspapers such as the Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, RedEye, Third Coast Press, Hypertext Magazine and the Chicago Reader.