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The present-day cable version of the Chicago station, known as WGN America ( formerly Superstation WGN ), reaches about 60 million U. S. homes outside Chicago through cable and direct broadcast satellite.
" Skillful ", as his late WGN colleague Bob Collins called him, was consulted for the movie The Weather Man, which was set in Skilling's hometown of Chicago at a fictionalized version of WGN.
Tribune Broadcasting now has 23 television stations located in 19 markets ( including four duopolies ), and the cable / satellite version of WGN-TV, known as WGN America.
One of very many adaptations of the work, this version was frequently revived in theatres by MGM, was shown on local television stations throughout the 1960s, and was once a staple of Chicago's WGN television station.
In April 2010, WGN America announced it would begin carrying Earl Pitts Uhmerikun, a television version of the radio commentary series created by Gary Burbank, it began airing that same month.

WGN and from
" Talk Radio " host John Williams, of Chicago's WGN 720 AM, has used " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " from Life of Brian in a segment of his Friday shows.
WGN Radio ( 720 kHz ) broadcasts from the building, with ground-level studios overlooking nearby Pioneer Court and Michigan Avenue.
Until they ended their show on WGN, Steve and Johnnie continued to honor Les on Tuesday Mornings at 2: 35 AM with their segment " A Little More Les " drawing from around 30 hours of recorded conversations with Les.
Absent from the airwaves for over two years, it returned shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack, heard in the midwest on the Chicago Tribunes WGN.
The majority of the early programming, from WOR and WGN, consisted of musical features and inexpensive dramatic serials.
Owned and operated by the Tribune Company since its inception, WGN Television is one of several flagship properties owned by the company, alongside radio station WGN ( 720 AM ); the Chicago Tribune ( whose slogan, " World's Greatest Newspaper ", was the basis for the call letters used by both stations ); and local news and weather channel Chicagoland Television ( CLTV ), which shares resources from both WGN-TV and the Chicago Tribune.
On September 6, 1994, the station dropped children's programs airing on weekday mornings, replacing them with the WGN Morning News ( which was dropped by the national feed in 1996, reportedly because certain segments of the newscast were not allowed to air outside of Chicago ; the national feed still airs the second hour of Midday News and the 9 p. m. newscast, though the first hour of WGN Midday News, the weekend morning and weeknight 5 p. m. newscasts do not air on the superstation feed for undetermined reasons ), the morning newscast gradually expanded from an hour-long program at start, to two hours in January 1996, then to three hours from 6-9 a. m. eight months later, to 3½ hours in January 2001, four hours starting at 5 a. m. in January 2004, four-and-a-half hours in August 2010 and then to its current five hours in July 2011.
The show was also syndicated on local stations and WGN America, but has been removed from syndication from both outlets due to low ratings.
This led to his absence from the broadcast booth through most of the first two months of the regular season, with WGN featuring a series of celebrity guest announcers on game telecasts while Caray recuperated.
Cable systems can also air satellite-relayed over-the-air stations originating from other areas of the United States, known as superstations ( of which there are currently only six around the country, the most prominent being WGN America, which airs some programming carried by WGN-TV in Chicago ), which for the most part are often aired in rural areas and if carried nationally, may have a separate feed carrying different programming than that of the local area feed that is SyndEx-proof ( i. e., syndicated programming that the superstation has obtained full signal rights to ) and may omit network programming from that station's network affiliation ; all superstations, except for WSBK-TV in Boston, are currently affiliated with a broadcast television network as WGN-TV, WPIX in New York City, KWGN in Denver and KTLA in Los Angeles all being affiliated with The CW and WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey affiliated with MyNetworkTV.
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds the WGN Radio Station Studio Orchestra Music Library and Records, 1925-1956, which consists of scripts, programs, production notes, correspondence, music library rental records, sheet music manuscripts, and music scores with annotations that document the WGN Studio Symphonic Orchestra from the 1925 to 1956.
WGN morning host, Spike O ' Dell retired from radio, and WGN moved then midday host, John Williams to mornings.
In June 2010, WGN announced the hiring of longtime Cincinnati-based host Mike McConnell from WLW ; he took the late morning ( 8: 30 a. m .-12: 30 p. m .) slot, shifting Williams back to his original midday time slot ( now from 12: 30 p. m .-3: 00 p. m .) starting on August 9, 2010.
With Brandmeier's addition to the WGN Radio weekday lineup, the morning drive timeslot shifts to 5: 30-9 a. m., followed by Mike McConnell from 9 a. m .- 12 p. m., John Williams from 12-3 p. m., and Garry Meier from 3-7 p. m. News anchor Steve Bertrand will move to mornings with Brandmeier and Jim Gudas will shift to middays / afternoons.

WGN and syndicated
It was distributed by Global TV ( Fireworks ' parent company ) in Canada and syndicated in the United States on WGN and other channels.
Paulsen is also the off-camera voice of the syndicated television series Funniest Pets and People which is seen on Superstation WGN and other television stations throughout the United States and abroad.
Developed at the Blackett, Sample and Hummert advertising agency in Chicago, Captain Midnight began as a syndicated show in 1938, airing through the spring of 1940 on a few Midwest stations, including Chicago's WGN.
This is primarily due to WGN-TV's relatively strong news department, local sports programming, higher-rated syndicated programming, and due to the fact that WGN has a rich history in the Chicago news history ..
This resulted in the duplication of CW programs and many syndicated shows available domestically on other channels ( examples being fellow superstations WSBK-TV and KTLA-TV ), and effectively displaced the WGN national feed from most Canadian cable systems and satellite provider Star Choice ( although Bell TV had been carrying the Chicago area signal for several years ).
Most shows airing on the channel can also be seen on other over-the-air broadcast stations nationwide, but have been cleared by the studios ' television syndication distribution units for " full-signal " rights, and therefore are allowed to air on WGN America as they do not fall under syndication exclusivity regulations ( for example, although syndicated reruns of 30 Rock now air on other television stations nationwide, including WGN-TV / Chicago, it is allowed to air on WGN America due to its clearance by NBCUniversal for " full-signal " carriage ).
As of September 2012, the only programs carried on WGN-TV / Chicago that are cleared for full-signal carriage on WGN America ( outside of local newscasts ) are People to People and Adelante, Chicago, as well as The Bill Cunningham Show ( which airs on WGN-TV as part of The CW's daytime programming ), syndicated series Bloopers !, syndicated reruns of 30 Rock, and religious programs Singsation !, Tomorrow's World and Believer's Walk of Faith with Pastor Bill Winston.
WGN America substitutes games not cleared for national carriage with either movies or syndicated programming.

WGN and network
Until January, 1940, six groups bore the expense of the network operation in varying degree: stations WGN and WOR owned all the stock of the corporation and guaranteed to make up any deficit ; the Colonial Network in New England, the Don Lee System on the Pacific Coast, and the group of stations owned by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, participated in responsibility for running expenses.
For example, WGN is the flagship station of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, which has an extensive Cubs radio network spanning several states.
The new network launched on September 18, 2006 ( WGN America does not run The CW's programming schedule as it has sufficient broadcast coverage through over-the-air stations, digital multicast channels and cable-only affiliates negating the need for WGN America to provide additional nationwide coverage of the network ).
Digital broadcast network Antenna TV ( both it and WGN America are owned by Tribune Broadcasting ) added WKRP in Cincinnati to its programming schedule on April 8, 2012 ; however, unlike WGN America, the episodes airing on Antenna TV do not feature the original music, instead using sound-alike instrumental music.
There are also plans to broadcast The Yule Log on Tribune's new digital subchannel network, Antenna TV, beginning in 2011, bringing the concept to many more additional markets without dependence on WGN America.
** WGN America, a cable television network based in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Brickhouse also covered many other events, sports and otherwise ( such as professional wrestling for WGN and political conventions for the Mutual radio network ).
This was due to Paramount ( although Chris-Craft owned the station ) using SyndEx to keep the UPN shows off the national WWOR feed, although rival Superstation WGN ( now WGN America ) showed The WB network programming on their national feed until nationwide terrestrial coverage was deemed sufficient in 1999.
The creation of the series was a direct result of Phillips ' resignation from her pioneering WGN series Painted Dreams when the station refused to allow her to take the program to a network.
Through the affiliation agreement and Tribune's minority ownership stake in The WB ( which resulted in most of the company's independent stations becoming WB charter affiliates ), the network allowed the WGN superstation feed to carry its primetime ( and by September 1995, children's ) programming to a national audience, in order to make The WB available to areas without a local affiliate.
While The WB's programming was initially split between two stations in the Chicago area, WGN-TV ( which aired its primetime programming ) and WCIU-TV ( which ran Kids ' WB children's programming until 2004, when it moved to WGN-TV ), The WB's entire network schedule was carried by the WGN superstation feed.
In the early 21st century, WGN America acquired sub-run syndication rights to series that had been shown on the channel previously in first-run form between 1995 and 1999 when it carried WB network programming.
Though WVTV was relatively unaffected by all of these shuffles and didn't take the CBS affiliation for Milwaukee ( which eventually went to then-small WDJT ( channel 58 )), Warner Bros. decided to not honor affiliation deals for Gaylord stations, keeping WVTV an independent and forcing Milwaukee viewers to watch The WB on cable via Superstation WGN, which was then carrying the network nationally on cable.
Before this network change, WB programming in Northeastern Wisconsin was previously seen either through cable systems that carried WGN and / or Milwaukee's WVTV or during off hours on UPN affiliate WACY-TV ( Kids ' WB programming aired as part of WACY's children's lineup ).
Prior to the station's launch, there was no affiliate with the network in Wichita ; WB programming could only be viewed in the Wichita market through Chicago-based cable superstation WGN, which carried the network's programming nationwide from its January 1995 launch until the summer of 1999.

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