The Tribune stations ( which included the television group's flagship station WGN-TV in Chicago, as well as WPIX in New York City and KTLA in Los Angeles ) became de facto owned-and-operated stations of the network through Tribune's minority interest in the network.

As well, a package of pay TV channels is also available for further fees, including movie networks such as The Movie Network, Movie Central, Super Channel and Super Écran, and American superstations such as WSBK, WPIX, WGN and KTLA ( which are often affiliated with The CW and MyNetworkTV.

** Calls / Branding Morning News — Tribune Broadcasting's local morning news show format usually seen on Tribune's CW and Fox affiliates, such as WPIX in New York City, New York ; WGN in Chicago, Illinois ; KTLA in Los Angeles, California ; KCPQ in Seattle, Washington ; and WXIN in Indianapolis, Indiana ; though this format has also been used on non-Tribune owned Fox and CW stations ( e. g. ; Fox 25 Morning News on KOKH in Oklahoma City ) under a more generic title form

on the CW on September 22, 2006, Tribune Broadcasting television stations in six major markets ( including WPIX in New York City and KTLA in Los Angeles ) aired WWE's Friday Night SmackDown !.

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.

However, the station is not available on satellite television in Canada through the Shaw Direct and Bell TV systems due to the carriage of fellow CW affiliates WPIX in New York City, WGN-TV in Chicago and KTLA in Los Angeles.

Canadian subscribers to premium movie channels The Movie Network and / or Moviepix also receive several major US superstations like KTLA and WPIX, depending on their cable provider.

WGN America is also one of four superstations owned by Tribune Company ( KTLA / Los Angeles, KWGN / Denver and WPIX / New York City are distributed nationwide on Dish Network, and are regionally available on cable in the Western and Northeastern United States respectively, and throughout Canada on both cable and satellite ).

Stations that carried the reruns included WPWR-TV in Chicago, WPIX in New York, KTLA in Los Angeles, WTXF in Philadelphia, KTVU in San Francisco, WSBK-TV in Boston, KTXA in Dallas WBDC in Washington, D. C., WGNX in Atlanta, WDWB in Detroit, KHTV in Houston, KSTW in Seattle, WLAX in La Crosse, and WEUX in Eau Claire.

* KBCW is actually one of four flagships for The CW due to CBS not owning KTLA or WPIX., thus giving them the distinction of being the only West Coast network flagship not in Los Angeles.

Simultaneously, Zero had a live TV show on WPIX ( Channel 11 in NYC, which launched its broadcasts in June 1948 ) called " Channel Zero ".

In the 1970s WPIX in Pittsburgh broadcast a live Bos Scaggz performance which had the audio simultaneously broadcast on two FM radio stations to create a quadrophonic sound, the first of its kind.

When Chicago White Sox pitcher and former Mets ace Tom Seaver went for his 300th victory in August 1985 against the host New York Yankees, the Yankees TV flagship station WPIX had Nelson call the final half-inning of Seaver's history-making win.

Bartholomew divorced his first wife in 1953, and in December of that year he married television chef and author Aileen Paul, whom he had met at WPIX.

It didn't help matters that New York City's WPIX was available on cable, as had been the case for more than a decade.

Prior to WEWB's relaunch, WPIX had been the default WB affiliate for the Capital District.

After that date, WJAR was able to enjoy a much larger coverage area, since the interference with WPIX had ended.

During its time under Tribune ownership, WQCD had been headquartered with WPIX at the ( now-landmarked ) Daily News Building in Midtown Manhattan.

He took over as the main presenter for the weeknight edition in 1979 after Bill Jorgensen, who had presented the newscast from its start in 1967, left to join the rival station WPIX.

* December 24 – WPIX in New York City premieres the Yule Log Christmas special which ran every year from 1966 to 1989, but returned in 2001.

The Yule Log is a television program which is broadcast traditionally on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning ( except for the 1990s and the year 2000 when the program wasn't broadcast ), originally by New York City television station WPIX but now by many other Tribune Company-owned television stations, including WGN America, and by Antenna TV starting in 2011.

The Yule Log was created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, President and CEO of WPIX, Inc.

Beginning in 1997, WPIX offered various versions of The Yule Log on the Internet.

In 2003, Tribune Broadcasting, parent company of WPIX, announced that in addition to being broadcast in New York City, The Yule Log would be broadcast in additional U. S. television markets on other Tribune-owned television stations, and would also be broadcast by high definition television that year as well.

Some of the stations and cable channels that have broadcast imitations of the Yule Log simulcast the Christmas music from a radio station that is playing it, and before 1989, the WPIX version also secondarily promoted the playing of the same Christmas music in a simulcast over their sister FM station, WPIX-FM ( 101. 9 ), for those unable view the Yule Log on television.

* The original footage from The WPIX Yule Log was filmed on 16 mm film at Gracie Mansion, and shown from 1966 to 1969 on WPIX-TV.

From 1966 to 1988, WPIX-FM simulcast the background holiday music played during WPIX Television's annual Yule Log program on Christmas Eve.

* Yule Log, which broadcast on WPIX on Christmas night

The cost of broadcasting the program without commercial interruption prompted a new WPIX general manager, Michael Eigner, to cancel it in 1990 — the same year that director Whit Stillman included a scene of a New Yorker viewing the Log in his movie Metropolitan.

The satellite feed of one station, WPIX, froze on the last image received from the WTC mast ; the image ( a remote-camera shot of the burning towers ), viewable across North America ( as WPIX is available on cable TV in many areas ), remained on the screen for much of the day until WPIX was able to set up alternate transmission facilities.

In a sequence cut from most of the television prints ( the version shown on WPIX in New York retains this sequence ), Tom-Tom sings a lullaby ( Victor Herbert's Go to Sleep, Slumber Deep ) to Bo-Peep in an enormous cave set with giant spider webs.

In New York, it was run on WPIX TV channel 11, as March of the Wooden Soldiers, and still runs on that station in daytime on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day: on Channel 11 and other stations, it has run more times than the nationwide network runs of The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

So in 1970, WPIX found a fireplace with similar andirons at a residence in California and filmed a burning log on 35 mm film there on a hot August day.

In December 2001, WPIX VP / General Manager Betty Ellen Berlamino announced on WPLJ radio that the special would return after eleven years of not being broadcast.

* WPIX Morning News-July 7, 2009

New York – based WPIX, for instance, edited out the audience member segment, but left the Chinese stereotype in place.

This meant that, for example, WPIX in New York and KPLR-TV in St. Louis were both referred to as " WB11 ".

There was some talk that WBIS would secure broadcast rights for the New York Yankees, but that team opted to remain with WPIX for the 1997 season.

Currently a baseball analyst working on Mets telecasts for SportsNet New York and WPIX since 2006, he has gained a cult following from his broadcasting career.

Another web site, PrevueNet, was co-launched to provide more history and useful information for the Prevue Channel, as well as for Sneak Prevue, UVTV, WGN Chicago, and WPIX New York.

He is still active as a live performer, appears regularly on WPIX in New York City, and appears annually on the Fox News Channel and CNN to give his New Year's Day predictions for the coming year.

* Steve Salvatore, medical correspondent for WPIX in New York

His first stint with the Yankees was during the 1986 season, where he called around 100 games for WPIX.

He went to work for WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois, overseeing program development and children's programming, as well as at WPIX in New York City.

Zacherley and Chiller Theatre returned to the WPIX airwaves on October 25, 2008 for a special showing of the 1955 Universal Pictures science fiction classic Tarantula !.

Repeats aired for a time in syndication during late 1977, most notably on WPIX in New York and KHJ in Los Angeles.

* In the field of entertainment, Manhattan graduates include: Frank Campanella, TV and motion picture actor on Captain Video ; Joseph Campanella, TV, stage, and motion picture actor on Mannix ; Alexandra Chando, TV actress known for role as Maddie on As The World Turns ; Dennis Day, TV and radio personality on The Jack Benny Program ; Barnard Hughes, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor on Hugh Leonard's Da ; Mike Mazurki, professional wrestler and character actor who appeared in over 100 movies ; Hugo Montenegro, TV and movie soundtrack composer known for theme song for I Dream of Jeannie and The Outcasts ; and Glenn Hughes, founding member of The Village People, radio personality Bob Stei ; and Dan Mannarino, local TV News Reporter at WPIX in NYC.