Each of the big four U. S. television networks, CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox, directly owns and operates a high-definition television station in Chicago ( WBBM, WLS, WMAQ and WFLD, respectively ).

60 Minutes is also aired via CBS Radio on several of their radio stations at the same time as the television broadcast ( in each station's own local market ), such as WCBS in New York, KNX in Los Angeles, WBBM in Chicago, WWJ in Detroit, KCBS in San Francisco, and other stations owned by CBS.

Other owned-and-operated stations were KNX Los Angeles, KCBS San Francisco ( originally KQW ), WBBM Chicago, WCAU Philadelphia, WJSV Washington, D. C. ( later WTOP, which moved to the FM dial in 2005 ; the AM facility today is WFED, also a secondary CBS affiliate ), KMOX St. Louis, and WCCO Minneapolis.

WBBM in Chicago once had a morning show called " Monsters and Money in the Morning " in which panelists talked about news stories for a set amount of time.

The full list includes KCBS ( AM ) in San Francisco, KNX ( AM ) in Los Angeles, KRLD ( AM ) in Dallas, WBBM ( AM ) in Chicago, WWJ ( AM ) in Detroit, KYW ( AM ) in Philadelphia, WCBS ( AM ) and WINS ( AM ) in New York, WNEW-FM in Washington, D. C., and WBZ ( AM ) in Boston.

He departed in 1998 to manage WBBM Radio in Chicago.

On November 13, 2009, Kurtis reunited for one evening with his co-anchor of 20 years earlier, Walter Jacobson, to anchor the WBBM 10 PM news in Chicago while the usual anchor, Rob Johnson, was on vacation.

* 1943: Began commercial broadcasting over WBKB in Chicago ( now WBBM ).

From 1985 until 1989, she worked as a television reporter and weekend anchor in Los Angeles ( KTLA ), Chicago ( WBBM ), and Miami ( WCIX ).

This move coincided with the debut of channel 2's newscasts in high definition, making them the fourth Chicago television station to do so ( early in 2006, the WBBM radio stations moved into new studios within Two Prudential Plaza ).

As of the digital transition, WBBM is one of only three CBS O & Os ( and the only full-powered Chicago station ) to broadcast on the VHF dial ( the other two are KTVT in Fort Worth and WJZ-TV in Baltimore ); however, one of these three ( KTVT ) has been granted FCC approval to permanently move to a UHF frequency due to reception problems which adversely affected viewership.

On February 20, 2009, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that WBBM was signing its personalities on contracts that were " as short as possible ", and the rumored possibility of discontinuing newscasts altogether due to the current economic crisis.

Early sketches had posters in the background with the call letters WBBM, the CBS O & O TV, AM and FM stations in Chicago, though later sketches changed the call letters to WCBM.

WHTZ and WXRK in New York City, KIIS and KAMP in Los Angeles, KKHH in Houston, WKSC and WBBM in Chicago, WHYI in Miami, WNCI in Columbus, KDWB in Minneapolis / St.

During the 1970s and 1980s, WIND also tinkered with a part-time news format, though it had little success against the dominant all-news station in Chicago, CBS-owned WBBM.

WBBM may refer to any of four stations in the Chicago, Illinois area owned and operated by CBS:

* WBBM ( AM ), a radio station ( 780 AM ) licensed to Chicago and broadcasting an all-news format

* WCFS-FM, a radio station ( 105. 9 FM ) licensed to the Chicago suburb of Elmwood Park, Illinois that simulcasts the all-news format of WBBM ( AM ).

It was also the first move in CBS Radio's long-term plans to convert its group of AM stations — along with WCBS, the group was then composed of KNX in Los Angeles, WBBM in Chicago, WCAU in Philadelphia, KMOX in St. Louis, WEEI in Boston, and KCBS in San Francisco — to some form of news programming.

Others which do this are WBBM in Chicago ( like KTVT, CBS owned-and-operated ), WTVF in Nashville, KOLR in Springfield, MO, and WHBF in Quad Cities, IL-IA.

And, in the mid-1970s Westinghouse's second Chicago station, WIND, carried the format part-time while competing against CBS-owned, all-news WBBM.

WBBM ( 780 kHz ) is an all-news radio station in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The Atlasses sold their battery company in 1924 to devote their full attention to WBBM, and moved to Chicago that same year.

For many years, WBBM has been in a spirited battle with rival news / talk / sports station WGN for the number one AM or FM radio station in the Chicago media market.

In 1968 Musburger began a 22-year association with CBS, first as a sports anchor for WBBM radio and later for WBBM-TV.

KCBS, KNX and WBBM all transitioned in 1968.

On February 12, one day after the merger took effect, channel 4 took the WBBM-TV call letters ( after WBBM radio, which CBS has owned since 1929 ).

, CBS Radio operates ten of the country's largest all-news radio stations: WCBS, KNX, WBBM, WINS, KCBS, KYW, and WWJ, KRLD and WNEW-FM, WBZ-AM

Some all-news stations, like KYW, WBBM and WCBS, carry sports, and all-news stations may occasionally carry public affairs programs, simulcasts of TV news magazine or political affairs shows like 60 Minutes and Face the Nation, and national radio shows revolving around news such as the CBS News Weekend Roundup.

Some all news stations, like KNX and WBZ, run talk radio programs on weekends and during off peak hours, while WBBM also carries programming revolving around the NFL Chicago Bears, as that station airs the play-by-play for the team.

KTLA and WBBM were recognized by the FCC as DuMont O & O stations, even though the former was only an affiliate in 1947 and the latter never carried a DuMont program.

* 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.

* 1969 – The " Chicago Eight " plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Since 1968, the Joseph Jefferson Awards are given annually to acknowledge excellence in theater in the Chicago area.

In 1968 and 1969, members of the Chicago Imagists, such as Roger Brown, Leon Golub, Robert Lostutter, Jim Nutt, and Barbara Rossi produced bizarre representational paintings.

* 1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Tom Brand, owner of Galaxy Press on the south side of Chicago, in 1968 had some printing to deliver to a coffee shop called " The Whole ".

From 1966 to 1968, the league expanded from 9 to 14 teams, introducing the Chicago Bulls, Seattle SuperSonics ( now Oklahoma City Thunder ), San Diego Rockets ( who relocated to Houston four years later ), Milwaukee Bucks, and Phoenix Suns.

Initially concentrated mainly in big cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, DC, and on the West Coast, radical feminist groups spread across the country rapidly from 1968 to 1972.

* August 22 – August 30 – Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago, Illinois, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U. S. President, and Edmund Muskie for Vice President.

* February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

She had planned on becoming an English teacher, but she and Buckingham dropped out in 1968 to move to Los Angeles in pursuit of a music career when Nicks ' family moved to Chicago.

In 1968 the first international Special Olympics were held, in Chicago.

* Sea Routes to Polynesia ( Chicago: Rand McNally, 1968 ), 232 pages.

In August, the 1968 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago.

* The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song " Chicago " ( written by Graham Nash ) was about the 1968 Democratic convention.

In 1968, Daley appointed her head of consumer affairs in Chicago.

The 1968 Democratic National Convention of the U. S. Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968.

The police assault in front of the Hilton Hotel became the most famous image of the Chicago demonstrations of 1968.

Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

* The Chicago Convention: A Baptism Called A Burial, by Jo Freeman ( 1968 )

* Chicago ' 68 by Alvin Susumu Tokunow ( 1968 )

* American Experience: Chicago 1968