Their current preseason TV announcers on WFLD ( Channel 32 ), which also carries the majority of the team's regular season games through the NFL on Fox, are Sam Rosen ( play-by-play ), Erik Kramer ( color commentary ) and Lou Canellis ( sideline reporter ).

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 ).

Murdoch sold the paper in 1986 ( to buy its former sister television station WFLD to launch the Fox network ) for $ 145 million in cash in a leveraged buyout to an investor group led by the paper's publisher, Robert E. Page, and the New York investment firm Adler & Shaykin.

In May 2007, WBBM-TV slipped to fourth from sign-on to sign-off behind WLS-TV, CW affiliate WGN-TV and NBC station WMAQ ( in descending ratings order ), and just barely ahead of Fox station WFLD.

WFLD is the Fox owned-and-operated television station in Chicago, Illinois.

Owned by the Fox Television Stations unit of News Corporation, WFLD is sister to Gary, Indiana-licensed MyNetworkTV outlet WPWR-TV ( channel 50 ) and both stations share studios on Michigan Avenue and Lake Street in the Chicago Loop.

Metromedia's television stations, including WFLD, were sold to the News Corporation in 1986, and they formed the core of the new Fox Broadcasting Company.

When Fox ended the weekday kids block in January 2002, WFLD added more first-run reality and talk shows to the lineup.

WFLD is currently the only Fox O & O that does not use the usual Fox branding of " Fox ( Channel Number )", even though most Chicagoans still refer to WFLD as " Fox 32 " or " channel 32.

In 1994, WFLD became the unofficial " home " station of the Chicago Bears when Fox acquired the television rights to the National Football Conference of the NFL, of which the Bears are a member.

In January 2003, WFLD dropped the Fox Saturday morning cartoon block, by then outsourced by Fox to producer 4Kids Entertainment and subsequently rebranded 4Kids TV, and the programs were moved to WPWR which aired them in the same four-hour time block until the block went off the air on December 27, 2008.

WFLD was the first of the original six Fox-owned stations ( owned prior to the New World stations purchase ) to drop Fox's Saturday children's programming, and one of the few non-New World Fox O & Os ( the other is KMSP in the Twin Cities ) that currently does not run Weekend Marketplace, which WPWR now airs.

In September 2006, WFLD joined other Fox O & Os and re-launched its website using the new MyFox platform, which added more content, multimedia, and social networking features.

WFLD is the only remaining Fox owned-and-operated station without a weeknight early evening newscast, and is the second largest Fox-owned station ( in terms of market size ) without an early evening newscast.

With this the station has established a deep relationship with Chicago's WGN-TV, sharing video and stories with that station, although they still maintain a relationship with Fox's Chicago O & O WFLD via Fox News's affiliate service.

WPWR-TV is owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox network outlet WFLD ( channel 32 ).

* Keyfax Nite-Owl was a service that provided news, weather, sports, and entertainment information on WFLD Channel 32 in Chicago.

In addition to his radio broadcasting work, he hosted cartoon shows on Field Communications television stations in Chicago ( WFLD 32 ), Detroit ( WKBD 50 ), Philadelphia ( WKBS 48 ) and San Francisco ( KBHK 44 ) for over a decade.

Svengoolie debuted on Screaming Yellow Theater, which aired on WFLD ( Channel 32 ) from September 18, 1970 until late-summer 1973.

Local television station WFLD, ( FOX Channel 32 ) operated from Marina City for eighteen years until they were bought by Metromedia.

The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, which would acquire the afternoon Chicago Daily News in 1959 and launch WFLD television in 1966.

The July 2010 ratings period found WBBM-TV's 10 p. m. newscast slipping to fourth place among the five late-night newscasts in Chicago ( ahead of only WFLD ) in large part due to the lack of a co-anchor on most nights.

In 1968, WFLD acquired broadcast rights to the Chicago White Sox baseball team from WGN-TV, carrying them initially until 1972, and again from 1982 to 1989.

From 1985 to 1989, WFLD also aired games of the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls, until WGN-TV acquired broadcast rights to both teams in late 1989 ( Chicago-area attorney and real estate investor Jerry Reinsdorf owns both franchises ).

As part of the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, WFLD shut down its analog transmitter, on June 12, 2009 at 11: 59 p. m. WFLD was the only station in Chicago which participated in the " Analog Nightlight " program until its analog transmitter on top of the John Hancock Center was turned off for good on June 26, 2009.

WFLD broadcasts a total of 39. 5 hours of local news a week ( 7 1 / 2 hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays ), second to WGN-TV ( 8. 5 hours on weekdays and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays ) in the Chicago market.

On April 9, 2007, WFLD launched a new 10 p. m. newscast called The TEN, anchored by David Novarro and former WLS-TV and WBBM-TV anchor / reporter Lauren Cohn which, according to the Chicago Sun-Times Robert Feder's April 18, 2007 column, beat CBS O & O WBBM-TV's 10 p. m. news on its second day on the air.

On January 12, 2009 WFLD and NBC O & O WMAQ-TV began sharing a news helicopter and its news footage in Chicago, and the agreement paves the way for a larger pooling effort.

Currently, WFLD and WGN are the only two major news stations in the Chicago market who are not broadcasting in a " street side studio.

The Kaiser Broadcasting family of UHF stations included San Francisco ( KBHK, now KBCW-TV ); Chicago ( WFLD ); Cleveland (

A few other services were offered by some large-market TV stations in the US throughout the 1980s, such as Metrotext from KTTV in Los Angeles and KeyFax from WFLD in Chicago.

From 1989 to 1993, Koz returned to WFLD ( now " Fox Chicago ") to host a new hosted movie show where he appeared to be " breaking in " to the Fox signal ( a take-off of an actual event where WGN and WTTW had their signals pirated.

Rosen's current responsibilities include Rangers telecasts, Chicago Bears preseason football for WFLD, and Sunday NFL games for Fox.

WGN opted to leave that spot vacant for several months, while having other WGN hosts fill-in on a rotating basis, including weekend host Nick Digilio, and Bob Sirott, who formerly hosted " The Noon Show " on the same station, in addition to a weekend program that is pre-recorded with his wife, Marianne Murciano ( he also was a prominent news anchor at NBC 5 and is now at WFLD ).

Applegate took Jacobson off the anchor desk ( Jacobson eventually left for WFLD in 1993 ) and made the newscasts much flashier than they had previously been ; the reporting staff during this time was impressive.

For most of the next decade, WLS and WMAQ fought it out for first, while WBBM-TV's once-proud news division often trailed syndicated reruns on WFLD.

On May 7, 2006, WFLD adopted a new look for its newscasts, featuring an updated set, new music, and new graphics.

WMAQ-TV gained fame for its newscasts during the 1960s, anchored by Floyd Kalber, John Palmer, Jim Ruddle, and Jorie Lueloff, with weatherman Harry Volkman ( later of WBBM-TV, WGN-TV and WFLD ), sports reporter Johnny Morris, and commentator Len O ' Connor.

In 1986, after the station was acquired by the News Corporation, WFLD cancelled Svengoolie, believing the show not dignified for a network affiliate.

Jacobson left for WFLD in 1993 after a dispute with WBBM's management.

Occasionally as time permits, WPWR may now air Fox network programming whenever WFLD cannot in the event of an emergency.