WGN America is America's basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Tribune Broadcasting. This channel is one of the few flagship properties owned by Chicago-based parent Tribune Media, which also owns the station's former channel television during its superstation, WGN-TV (channel 9), the regional cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV) and WGN radio stations (720 AM). The channel borrowed its name from the slogan " W orld's G reatest N ewspaper from the main newspaper of its parent company, Chicago Tribune , which was applied earlier as a re-call of the Tribune television and radio station in Chicago.
In July 2015, WGN America was available in approximately 72,987 million pay-TV households (62.7% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.
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WGN America carries programs comprised mostly of off-the-shelf comedies and classical dramas, drama series and widescreen films, along with an original television series produced specifically for the channel. While retaining the name "WGN" borrowed from its former master station, since December 15, 2014, it no longer brings any local programs, syndicates or sports that air in the Chicago market on WGN-TV. In contrast, WGN-TV does not carry the original WGN America series, beyond the special presentation of the program's premier series (such as with the premiere of July Manhattan , broadcast on WGN-TV and several other Tribune Stations on the night of its debut at WGN America).
As of December 31, 2015, WGN America broadcasts on the Eastern Time schedule (with programs shown at a later time or later depending on location). Thus, the promo for the WGN America program refers to airtime for the East and Pacific time zones (for example, Most Colorful Home Video promoted when aired on "6 pm East/3 pm West", scheduling reference formats used in promotions beginning in 2008, rather than referring to both zones as "East" and "Pacific"). WGN America launched the Pacific Time Zone feed on January 1, 2016, an addition made as part of the Tribune Broadcasting update of the channel train agreement with AT & amp; T on October 26, 2015, which expanded distribution by an additional five million subscribers through two pay television providers who carry East Coast food initially, AT & amp; T U-verse and DirecTV.
Availability
WGN America is available in the United States on most cable providers, as well as on DirecTV, Dish Network, AT & amp; T U-verse and Verizon FiOS. However, it continues to be unavailable on cables in the western part of the United States and much of New England in the northeastern United States. In addition, some cable providers in certain markets where Tribune Broadcasting has television stations do not bring WGN America on analog or digital cables. Specifically, the channel was not available in some metropolitan areas of New York City until January 15, 2016, when Cablevision began to bring the network as part of an overall deal with Tribune Media which also included a purchase of a 2.8% stake in News Tribune in Newsday Holdings.
In the Chicago metropolitan area, WGN America is not available over-the-air as a WGN-TV digital sub-channel. This channel is available in the Chicago market through three major cable providers in the region (Comcast Xfinity, RCN and WOW!), AT & amp; T U-verse and DirecTV, in addition to WGN-TV broadcast signals. Before conversion became a basic cable channel in December 2014, those living in the market could only accept the American WGN on the last two satellite providers.
WGN America was previously conducted in Canada on most cable and satellite providers; However, its distribution in the country decreased significantly on January 17, 2007, when Shaw Broadcast Services - the main supplier of WGN in Canada - replaced the superstation feed with the WGN-TV broadcast signal Chicago. The decision to switch to a Chicago area feed is believed to have been done to avoid paying the necessary fees to bring WGN's later supplement feed. Although the Star Choice satellite provider (now Shaw Direct) and most Canadian cable systems that have brought WGN America began receiving WGN-TV/Chicago ever since (Bell TV satellite providers have been carrying Chicago area signals for several years), select cable providers to carry WGN's national feed as a substitute or - as is the case with providers such as MTS TV and Cable Cogeco - along with WGN-TV Chicago, resulting in duplication of CW networks and many syndication programs available within the country on other broadcasts and special channels (such as fellow KTLA superstations and WSBK-TV).
While Canada Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved the broadcast signal of Chicago and national cable feeds for transport to domestic multi-channel video programming distributors (including cable, satellite, IPTV and MMDS provider), WGN conversion America from superstation to a conventional cable channel and program separation resulting from WGN-TV led by Tribune Broadcasting to announce on December 15, 2014 that it will end all Canada distribution rights to WGN America, effective January 1, 2015, possibly due to later genre protection rules enforced by the CRTC which prohibits domestic or foreign cable channels from maintaining the general entertainment programming format. However, most cable and satellite providers in Canada - including some who lost access to WGN America - continue to receive WGN-TV (which, in addition to premium channel subscribers like The Movie Network and Super Channel, are also performed in Canada as part of the package sports NHL Center Ice, especially for the Chicago Blackhawks simulcast game), because the station is still official for domestic distribution as a superstation.
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History
As superstation
WGN-TV becomes national
On November 9, 1978, United Video Satellite Group upgraded the signal of Chicago WGN-TV independent station (channel 9) to Satcom-3 satellite for distribution to cable and satellite subscribers across the United States. For about eleven years thereafter, the national WGN-TV signal brings the same program schedule as seen in the Chicago area; the national feed also uses the same air branding as the Chicago area signal (referred to the air at the time as "Channel 9" or "WGN Channel 9") until 1997, when it was known simply as "WGN" outside of Chicago (although maintaining various shape of the word WGN logo until 2008). When United Video launched its Prevue Guide (now Pop-based entertainment) in the late 1980s, it utilized the WGN subcarrier audio channel - which the viewer never heard - to send programming schedules in 2400 bit/s data streams to local cable providers.
On May 18, 1988, the Federal Communications Commission issued the Syndication Exclusivity Code (or "SyndEx") into law; regulations require cable providers to eliminate syndicated programs displayed on off-the-market television stations hosted by stations, when stations in the television market gain exclusive rights to broadcast certain programs. In response, a separate WGN-TV national feed was launched on January 1, 1990 to avoid potential power outages, except for some sports programs (initially similar feeds in structure to the now defunct WWOR EMI Services, superstation feeds from Secaucus, WWOR-TV based in New Jersey, launched seven months after WGN-TV achieved superstation status, with fewer programming outages). In the early 1990s, WGN began to increase its national coverage as many cable systems began to exchange WWOR and rivals in New York City (and sister station to WGN-TV) WPIX to feed WGN superstations; its distribution is increasingly widespread as it gradually gains carriages on direct broadcast satellites via DirecTV, Dish Network and Primestar during the decade.
On December 3, 1993, Tribune Broadcasting entered into an affiliation agreement with WGN-TV/Chicago to become an affiliate of The WB Television Network, a joint venture between Warner Bros. units. Television Time Warner, the Tribune Company, and the original network president Jamie Kellner (the last two partners hold minority holdings in the network); This made the affiliate station of the broadcast network for the first time since the August 1956 closure of the DuMont Television Network (WGN-TV had become the primary CBS/DuMont secondary affiliate of sign-on on April 6, 1948, before becoming exclusively affiliated with DuMont after CBS moved to WBKB-TV (channel 4, now WBBM-TV on channel 2) in 1953). Through the agreement and share ownership of the Tribune in The WB - which resulted in most of the company's independent stations becoming the affiliate charter of the network - The WB enabled WGN's feed superstation to distribute prime time nationwide (and when it was added by The WB in September 1995, the children ) programming, to make the network available to the territory of the United States that initially had no local affiliation. The WB is the second network to make its programs available directly to pay television providers to "white areas" without broadcast affiliate permissions; Fox has previously launched Foxnet, a tailored cable channel for the same push behind the WGN-WB agreement, which operated from June 1991 through September 2006.
The Superstation feed became the de facto national WB affiliate at the January 11, 1995 network launch, giving The WB an early advantage over United Paramount Network (UPN), which refused to allow WWOR to run its program into an unaffiliated area. While The WB's programming was originally shared between two stations in the Chicago market, WGN-TV (which aired prime-time network programming), and WCIU-TV (channel 26) (which runs children's WB programs for children to move to WGN- TV in September 2004), The entire WB program schedule was brought by WGN's feed superstation. Additionally, since The WB only did the programming on Sunday when it was launched and would not expand its prime time schedule to six nights a week until September 1999, the superstation feed - like most WB over-the-air affiliates during the early days of the network - was charged at 8 : 00 to 10:00 pm Eastern Time Slot at night without WB network programming with sports broadcasts from WGN-TV opened for national broadcasts (which WB expanded its program into other nights over a four year period starting with the launch of Wednesday's ranks on the month September 1995, will produce pre-emptions from network programs until the end of the week) or movies.
In December 1996, shortly after WGN-TV lost the right to broadcast the Chicago Bulls basketball game due to a lawsuit between the station and the National Basketball Association, WGN's supernation feed was dropped from a cable system operated by Tele-Communications, Inc. several US cities outside the Chicago area. This move is partly to provide space for additional cable networks due to space constraints (cable providers across the country at present are regularly upgrading to their headend infrastructure to allow for the transport of additional channels, culminating in the adoption of digital cables in the latter part of the decade). The removal of WGN by TCI has little complication for The WB because even though the network has slowly added the station to its roster at the time, it still has no local affiliates in many middle and small markets. The screams from some TCI customers over the decision to drop WGN resulted in cable providers then backed away from plans to drop superstation feeds in five Midwestern states. In 1997, TCI and Tribune discussed a proposal to sell a 50% stake in the WGN feed superstation to TCI and turn it into a basic cable channel (similar to what the WTBS Atlanta superstation did in the same year, as well as the Tribune conversion from WGN America to service basis beginning in 2014); this is ultimately not advanced.
On 7 October 1999, WGN ceased carrying the WB program on superstation feeds on network requests, on a reciprocal basis between Time Warner and the Tribune that The WB has increased its national broadcast coverage (through affiliation agreements signed with local broadcasting stations after its launch). and the debut of a special cable affiliate group in a market where no over-the-air affiliates were present in September of the previous year) to the point of stopping the carriage of the network on superstation feeds deemed necessary. Children's WB programs in the morning on weekdays and afternoons and on Saturday mornings are replaced with syndicated series, while feature films replace the WB's premiere program, so the superstation schedule is more like an independent station than a public entertainment cable network due to the presence of local programming from WGN-TV.
The removal of WB programming from superstation feeds reduced the potential of WB's household viewers by 10 million homes, and cited as the reason behind the network downgrades during the 1999-2000 television season (The WB fell to sixth place in Nielsen's season ranking behind UPN) because the network lost about 19% of its household audience through the decision. For similar reasons for those requiring the decision to remove WB programming from the channel, WGN America also did not bring any program from The CW when WGN-TV became a charter affiliate for the Chicago market at the launch of the network in September 2006, due to the fact that CW is available extensively throughout the United States via over-the-air broadcasting stations and affiliations with digital sub-channels and local cable outlets (including via The CW Plus in smaller markets) when the network was launched in September 2006.
In September 2001, the superstation feed was renamed to WGN Superstation , before being changed to another name as Superstation WGN in November 2002, coinciding with the introduction of the current Chicago WGN-TV logo ( where superstation feeds use a stylish version that adds a die-cut "S" emblem to represent its superstation status, in addition to the text logo that includes the WGN-TV words).
Change to WGN America
On May 24, 2008, Superstation WGN changed its name to WGN America (initially, the use of the new name was limited to airborne promotions, as Suport's WMS channel ID still exists). WGN America's new name and logo was fully used on May 26, 2008. The new logo is also the first time used by superstation feeds to exclude WGN-TV on-air branding in multiple capacities; instead of showing the illustrations of a woman's eyes in addition to the new slogan "TV You Can not Ignore".
The channel began slowly changing its programming range, beginning with the introduction of the weekly classic comedy block "Outta Sight Retro Night" (which runs from August 2007 to 5 September 2010, aired on Sunday night from 5:00 am to 2:00 pm Eastern Time, with a break hour at 10:00 pm Eastern for channel broadcasts from WGN News in Nine and Instant Replay ). This block displays series like WKRP in Cincinnati , Newhart , ALF , Barney Miller and The Honeymooners. Some of these programs have previously been shown in WGN before the implementation of SyndEx rules, or even after the rules apply to Chicago signals alone, and in some cases, superstations as well. (Some shows aired as part of the block also since aired on TV Antenna, the classic TV broadcasting network launched by Tribune on January 1, 2011, four months after WGN America stopped "Outta Sight Retro Night"). Several events were canceled from the channel, such as the former US WGN stamp. Farm Report and Soul Train , mainly due to the dissolution of the Tribune television production and distribution unit. At the end of July 2008, the network logo bug was revised with the logo eye element transformed into the text "WGN America". The eyes remained part of the common logo in all other uses until January 2009, when they did not emphasize the use of text wordmark channels as the main logo.
In the fall of 2008, then chairman/CEO of the Tribun, Sam Zell and co-CEO Randy Michaels told the media during a nationwide tour promoting the Tribune property that the company was interested in producing a late-night talk show hosted by comedian Jay Leno following the end of early run as host of NBC's The Tonight Show that year, launching it on the Tribune television station and using WGN America to broadcast performances nationwide. However, in December 2008, NBC approved an agreement to let Leno hold a primetime talk show on weekdays at 10:00 pm. The Eastern Time is called The Jay Leno Show (which was canceled in February 2010, due to low ratings, with Leno returning as host tonight one month later).
In April 2009, WGN America underwent a name change, with a new retro-style logo (updated on July 1, 2010 to a more minimal graphic style), a new five note sound (also used on WGN radio in Chicago), graphics new, new slogan ("Everywhere America Calls Home"), and the introduction of some original programs. Changes were made to upgrade cable trains beyond the traditional coverage area of ​​the channel and position themselves as a public entertainment network programmed across the nation, not just Chicago and the Midwest.
Convert to base cable
With ownership and management changes taking place in the Tribune Company out of Chapter 11 of the protracted bankruptcy reorganization process in December 2012 (which led to the spin-off of the August 2014 publishing division to focus on broadcasting companies, digital media and real estate units), the Tribune announced plans to turn WGN America from superstation into a conventional cable network, similar to the TBS transition to basic cable channels in the 1990s. Ironically, it was the splitting of the national TBS cable channel from its parent station Atlanta WTBS (channel 17, which became WPCH-TV) in October 2007 that resulted in WGN America being the last remaining national superstation in the US to be distributed via cable and satellite television.
WGN America is also one of the four superstations owned by the Tribune, with the KWL/Los Angeles, KWGN-TV/Denver and WPIX/New York City KWGN-TV/Denver affiliates, the last three available on cable in each region of the United States. State and Dish Network nationwide for those who subscribe to the a la carte tier superstations before their decision to stop selling to new customers in September 2013; KTLA and WPIX are also available in Canadian cable and satellite providers through authorization by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as WGN-TV is fixed to this day because providers in countries that have previously replaced national channels with Chicago WGN-TV Signals although KWGN-TV was also authorized by the CRTC for trains in Canada, the station was not conducted on pay-TV providers in the country).
The plan calls on WGN America to include programmatic native programming, to migrate from "basic" (or "live") programming level (where it is brought with local broadcast stations and public channels, education and government access) to " expanded "the level of cable providers, and to adopt retransmission approval models in future train agreements where the Tribune would receive revenue for the rail network (changing the existing model in which paying television providers carrying the American WGN pay royalties to the United States Copyright Office at under the terms of a compulsory license to retransmit stations outside the market). Matt Cherniss was named first president and general manager of WGN America and Tribune Studios, a newly formed production unit that will produce some original network content, on March 19, 2013.
The network logo was revamped in January 2014, prior to the launch of the first original draft program, to a simpler, neutral variant that erased the Tribune era of Zell/Michaels era, and focused more on the "WGN" call of letters for branding; the new imaging was inaugurated on December 19, 2013, as part of a promotional trailer for the first drama series, Salem . Salem and WGN America saw a huge promotional push beginning with Fox's broadcast from Super Bowl XLVIII on February 2, during which local advertising time in fifteen Fox Tribune Broadcasting affiliates (including stations in Seattle and Denver, two cities which its local NFL team plays in the game) is used to air an extended promotional ad for Salem , followed by further promotion at another local Tribune television station ahead of the premiere show on April 20th.
In the May 2014 symposium at MoffattNathanson Media & amp; The Communications Summit, Tribune Company President and CEO Peter Liguori (former Fox and Discovery Communications executive who joined the Tribune in December 2012) stated that with his new programming strategy, about 50% of US cable providers will start offering WGN America as a conventional cable channel. at the end of 2014, with all cable providers offering it as a basic cable service around 2016. Especially, on December 15, 2014, the Tribune reached a train agreement with Comcast Xfinity who saw WGN America move from limited to expanded base level on its system in four markets Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Seattle) the next day on December 16, while also making it available in the cable market in Chicago for the first time on a regional provider system.
On June 12, 2016, Dish Network removed 43 Tribune Broadcasting and WGN America television stations from the lineup at 7:00. East time that night, after the two companies can not reconcile the provisions on renewing existing train contracts. The WGN America channel slot was replaced by TNT duplicate feeds during power outages (broadcast television stations, such as the former WGN-TV main station, replaced with recurrent video message recording prepared by Dish Network). After the television property of the satellite provider for 1 ½ months, the Tribune reached an agreement to return the network to Dish Network on September 3, with channels being re-entered to Dish hours after the announcement.
Merged Tribune Media proposed with Sinclair Broadcast Group
On May 8, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group officially announced its intention to purchase Tribune Media in a cash-and-stock transaction valuing the company at $ 3.9 billion, along with an assumed $ 2.7 billion in debt held by the Tribune. After the purchase announcement, Sinclair CEO Christopher Ripley revealed plans to position WGN America around the earned series and original "cost-effective" program, in an effort to direct the network to "profitable growth". As a result, building a shift from script content by Interim President/CEO Peter Kern (who replaced Liguori as head of the company in March 2017) begins with the cancelation of Outsiders drama series, Sinclair will emphasize the series regarding high- end programming of the American WGN programming suite, with Ripley stating that the original network programming budgets can not currently be justified on the basis of channel rankings (although not among the top 25 top cable networks, WGN America's gradually increased since the introduction of the original draft series, posted the highest monthly rankings in March 2017, during which the average number of viewers was 446,000 viewers and audiences among adults aged 25 to 54 totaling 157,000).
Ripley's statement immediately questioned the future of the Underground Slavery drama, which aired on the network in March 2016 and ended its second season two days after the announcement of the May 10 acquisition of the Tribune. states that Sony Pictures Television, which produces Underground, will search for other network and streaming partners to continue the program (with Hulu, which manages content agreements with WGN America, be one possible candidate); WGN will announce its decision to cancel the series on May 30th.
The agreement also encourages speculation that Sinclair will take advantage of WGN America's vast national reach to launch a conservative cable news rival for Fox News Channel and Newsmax TV over existing transponders and WGN channel spaces (such speculation has been floating for more than a year, dating to the purchase of the Tennis Channel in January 2016, citing the company's production of segments to be run by the state for its cited stations having a real conservative view since the implementation of the News Central format in the early 2000s, a major concern levied by Democrats Congressman and anti-consolidation media activist groups oppose the agreement). However, reporter Cynthia Littleton notes that such a change may not be feasible fiscally, as it would risk stacking additional debt above what Sinclair had earned through a spate of station purchases he had made. since the acquisition of the 2011 Four Points Media Group (estimated at $ 3.268 billion as of March 31, 2017), and the debt to be assumed through the Tribune agreement.
Former professional wrestling executive Eric Bischoff spoke in favor of the Sinclair-Tribune agreement during the Q & A session on his official Periscop account on March 14, 2018, feeling that Sinclair could use the American WGN to extend the reach of Sinclair's Ring of Honor in the same way as the Turner Broadcasting System makes use of World Championship Wrestling and his predecessors include Jim Crockett Promotions and Georgia Championship Wrestling. The possibility of Ring of Honor Wrestling broadcasting will mark WGN America's first fight to professional wrestling since WWE Superstars left the network in 2011.
Programming
In 2017, the US WGN programming slate relies primarily on reruns like How I Met Your Mother , 30 Stones , Blue Blood , M * A * S * H ​​â € <â € <, Parks and Recreation , Legal & amp; Messages , Elementary , Walker, Texas Ranger , In Heat of the Night and Rules of Engagement >. As is common for cable networks, some channel-based events are also available on other broadcast television stations across the United States; for most of its post-Syndex existence as a superstation, many of these programs are cleaned up by syndicated television distributors for a "full signal" right - allowing them to air on WGN America because they are not included in the syndicated exclusivity rules (eg, > How I Meet Your Mother is syndicated to other national television stations, including WGN-TV/Chicago, allowed to air on WGN America due to her permission by the 20th Television for "full signal" transport). However, in 2013, WGN America began acquiring exclusive cable rights for eligible programs for syndication, such as Influences , as part of its change towards conventional cable networks.
The feature films at WGN America are also open for "full-signal" trains, when the channel plays movies from movie packages distributed for local broadcast syndication by Warner Bros. Television, Disney-ABC Domestic Television, Television 20th, Sony Pictures Television and other distributors.. The film formed many prime time superstation schedules for most of its existence until the "Superstation WGN" era - although there are exceptions: fewer prime time movies were aired during the four-year run week as affiliates only The WB's 1995-1999 cable as network programming extended to an additional night, with the movie airing every night again after WB programming was dropped (the film was later removed from Sunday night with the launch of the "Outta Sight Retro Night" block in 2007 and from Thursday night between 2009 and 2010). WGN America then lowered its movie broadcast until Sunday afternoon and late night weekend from 18 September 2010 to prime time movie back on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in May 2013.
Until 2012, the channel's morning and afternoon schedule depended heavily on reruns of television series produced between the 1960s and early 1990s. During the early 2000s, WGN America acquired sub-run syndication rights for the series previously aired in their original broadcast during the channel affiliation with The WB, including 7th Heaven , The Wayans Bros. , Brother, Big Brother , and The Parent 'Hood . Between 2006 and 2009, WGN America runs teenage and preteen sitcoms during afternoon afternoon time such as Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens and Sister, Sister >, only for these events are quickly moved to the cemetery overnight, when the target audience of the event usually does not wake up, and then deleted completely shortly thereafter. This may be due to the restructuring of the Tribune television division and distribution agreements with the Disney Channel which proved too costly to maintain.
Genuine programming
On August 21, 2008, WGN America announced a partnership with Indianapolis radio station WFBQ to broadcast the TV The Bob & amp; Tom Show radio program - originally produced for the Tribune duopoly of Fox WXIN affiliates (channel 59) and affiliate CW WTTV (channel 4, now CBS affiliate) in that market. The program debuted at WGN America on November 3, 2008, initially aired in standard night slots, before being moved into the night until the television broadcast ended on September 13, 2010. On December 19, 2008, WGN America reached an agreement with the World of Wrestling Entertainment to broadcast > WWE Superstars as an hourly weekly program, starting April 16, 2009. The program was removed from WGN America after airing on April 7, 2011 (when it was available for WWE-based WWE Network subscriptions until its cancellation in November 2016).
In April 2010, WGN America announced it would start bringing Earl Pitts Uhmerikun , a television version of the radio commentary series created by Gary Burbank, which began airing the same month. Burbank had long maintained close ties with certain Tribune Company executives at the time, who approached him about bringing segments to television. The comments were aired in a series of 90-second segments aired on the US WGN through November 2011, usually during WGN-TV broadcast news broadcasts.
As part of WGN America's restructuring, the channel is beginning to develop original programs - some of which will be produced through Tribune Studios, a production and distribution unit established in March 2013 to develop a syndicated program that will be seen primarily in Tribune Broadcasting television properties (child's predecessor, Tribune Entertainment, is the supplier of syndicated program contributions to WGN America before the 2007 shutdown unit). On June 4, 2013, WGN America placed an order of 13 episodes for its first original draft program, Salem drama series (based on Salem wizard court), which aired on April 20, 2014. The network debuted the series without the first draft, Wrestling with Death , on January 13, 2015.
WGN-TV Programming
News List
WGN America has been broadcasting news programs from WGN-TV since the Chicago signal was uplinked to the satellite in 1978, with syndication programming that replaced it after the national channel became a conventional cable network. It originally aired John Drury and Newsnine , a traditional evening news broadcast that evolved into WGN-TV today at 9pm. program with an expansion to an hour in October 1980. From the implementation of SyndEx in 1990, syndication program replaces The Nine O'Clock News WGN News in Nine at WGN America every time sporting events are not emptied into the air outside of the Chicago market and/or (with the exception of the period from 13 September 2010 to May 2013, when it fills the list of prime time lineup with sitcom) films intended to be broadcast only on national channels scheduled for past 9 pm Central Time. WGN America moved 9 pm. live simulcast news after January 30, 2014 edition; The recent Sunday Communications program of Instant Replay Sports was aired nationally on January 26th (also dropped as a result, are specials produced by the WGN-TV news department and many weather specialists meteorologist Tom Skilling , which usually aired after a half hour shortened edition of the news broadcast). Although the CEO of Tribune Broadcasting, Matt Cherniss stated that he did not wish for news coverage to cause any problems with viewers, the rejection of the move by some former Chicago residents living elsewhere in the United States resulted in the creation of a Facebook page requesting a broadcast to be returned to WGN America's schedule, citing concerns about perceived inability to stay updated on news from the Chicago area.
The WGN Midday News , which originated as an hour-long newscast Newscope in 1984, also sees the occasional - though, much less rarely - pre-emptions due to Cubs basketball or White Sox game scheduled to broadcast on WGN-TV/WGN America at 1 pm Eastern time; only at 12 o'clock in the evening of the program aired nationally (though gradually expanding to include at 11 am locally in October 2009) before being dropped from WGN America on December 13, 2014. The WGN Morning News was aired on national debut from September 1994 to September 1996 and resumed on February 3, 2014, at that time, only at 4 am (Central Time) broadcast. The SyndEx Rules on paid segments shown in newscasts (where WGN-TV's sales department negotiates appearances and conditions, where national rates apply if segments aired outside the Chicago market) are reported to result in early removal of the program and banned the last five hours (from 5 to 10 am Central Time) from airing outside Chicago when the morning news broadcasts return. Beginning on December 15, 2014, WGN America added 5 am CT, but limited its broadcast in some markets with paid programs as alternate alternatives.
WGN America also broadcast Nightbeat, an overnight news program that lasted until 1983, as well as WGN-TV's weekend morning news efforts during the 1990s, both dropped by superstation feeds as a result of the news release: the edition a Saturday that lasted from 1992 to 1998 and a Sunday edition that ran from 1992 to 1994. For unspecified reasons, WGN America never cleaned up other local news releases that WGN-TV has added since September 2008 to national channels of conversion to channels conventional cables: working days at 4 pm and weekdays at 5 pm newscasts (first launched in September 2014, while the latter was launched in September 2008 as a 5:30 pm news broadcast and expanded until the weekend of July 2014) , and the current incarnation of the morning news broadcast at the weekend (which was launched in October 2010). The WGN-TV marker refers to the WGN America simulcast at the start of every nationally broadcasted news beginning in 2008 (until the 9th night news broadcast was dropped, this excluded weekend night and pre-emptions pre-determined range of news broadcasts outside Chicago).
Other WGN-TV programs
In addition to programming shared by local and national supplied feeding supplies for "full signal" transport, other local programs are shared by both feeds until the American WGN is restructured as a conventional cable network in December 2014 (excluding news broadcasts), including programs local public affairs Saturday morning two weeks Adelante, Chicago and People to People . WGN America is also broadcasting other Chicago-based programs produced by WGN's local programming department via simulcast or delay, such as local parades, past events coverage and retrospective events of WGN-TV (including McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade and special Bozo, Gar and Ray: WGN TV Classics ). WGN-TV/Chicago and national supplement feed initially maintained similar program schedules in the years after the SyndEx rule became law, running many of the same programs with limited substitutions outside of Chicago - although from the early 2000s onwards (especially since changing image being WGN America), WGN-TV/Chicago and national channels share much less common programs between two feeds.
From 1978 to 1987 and again from 1994 to 2014, WGN America aired the Illinois Lottery daily lottery (making it the only US state lottery of its image, including multi-jurisdictional games, broadcast nationally). The middle day and night images are shown daily during the news simulcast; however, if the news broadcast aired in the specified 'time period' image has been pre-empunked or not provided by WGN-TV and WGN America during the scheduled time of the draw, the winning number is instead shown as one of the static screens full or lower than the three graphics. WGN America effectively acted as the raw image anchor for the Mega Millions (starting in early 1998 as The Big Game) and Powerball (starting when Illinois became a participant in 2011) in participating areas in the lottery where no local television stations broadcast pictures (Iowa Lottery uses Illinois lottery numbers for its own Pick 3 and Pick 4 daily games as a result of the country's vast distribution until April 2014, to coincide with the expiration of the WGN national lottery drawing); both games are broadcast on each drawing night (Tuesday and Friday for Millions Mega, Wednesday and Saturday for Powerball) at 10:59 pm. Eastern time, except during ongoing sports broadcasts. Night drawings (held at 9:22 pm Central Time) as well as Powerball and Mega Millions were dropped with the abolition of 9:00 pm. the simulcast news on January 31, 2014, with a midday image (held at 12:40 am Central Time) follows according to December 15th.
Through WGN-TV's longtime association as the MDA Love Network station for Chicago, WGN America has performed the annual MDA Show of Strength on Labor Day and Sunday night every September (telethon has been shown in 21½ - format from 1979 until 2010, the six-hour night format was used in 2011 and the three-hour primetime format used in 2012), including locally-produced segments featuring WGN-TV characters; as a result, donations to the Chicago-based telethon segment also come from different regions of the United States and Canada. MDA transferred the telethon from syndication to ABC starting with 2013 broadcast (which lasted just one more year before MDA chose to end its annual telecon live in March 2015), ending WGN America broadcast rights and WGN-TV rights to telethon with the 2012 edition.
Sports programming
Beginning at the beginning of its establishment through WGN-TV satellite uplinking for distribution to cable providers, WGN America carries most of the sporting events produced and broadcast by its former Chicago broadcast host. Throughout 2014, the national channel aired all the Chicago Cubs and White Sox Major League Baseball games, and about 20 to 30 NBA Chicago Bulls games broadcast by WGN-TV/Chicago. WGN-TV/Chicago has the right to bring additional Bulls games, as well as a number of Chicago Blackhawks NHL matches; However, due to the broadcasting rights restriction imposed by the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League, WGN America is not allowed to bring any other games of the Bulls schedule on outside television stations that are allowed to be broadcast outside the Chicago market, or other Blackhawks games. that the local station carries (in the latter case due to an exclusive broadcast contract with the NHL, such as an exclusive contract with Comcast/NBCUniversal that began in 2008). The American WGN substitute game is not cleared for national trains with movies or syndication programs.
Certain locally-specific programs, such as the Blackhawks winning march after the Stanley Cup 2010 Playoffs and a half-hour special tribute to Cubs players and Ron Santo broadcasters in 2011, have also not been featured on WGN America, although some Tribune partner stations and local TV owned aired funerals in their digital subchannels and the Blackhawks triumphant parade displayed on the NHL Network using WGN-TV feeds.
As a side effect of the WGN America Tribune conversion into a public entertainment cable channel, the network gradually halted WGN-TV sports broadcasts, with Tribune president/CEO Peter Liguori citing limited views and advertising revenue generated from sports broadcasts relative to the cost (Cubs package costing five times as much for the right cost as the income it carries).
Final WGN Sports-produced broadcast game for air at WGN America is a contest between the Bulls and Golden State Warriors, from Chicago United Center on December 6, 2014. WGN America then aired the Cubs victory parade after the 2016 World Series on 4 November that year.
WGN America HD
WGN America HD is a WGN America high definition simulcast feed, which broadcasts the available programs in HD 1080i image format. The original programming and selecting programs (such as Elementary , How I Meet Your Mother and Law & Order: Criminal Intent ) are currently broadcast in high definition about the feed. HD feeds are available regionally through Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Xfinity by Comcast, AT & amp; T U-verse, Verizon FiOS and other cable providers, and nationally through the DirecTV satellite provider.
See also
In conjunction with previous WGN America history as cable affiliate The WB, the following article discusses the same affiliate cable television network:
- The WB 100 Station group - a station group created by The WB in September 1998, comprises the majority of locally managed cable television channels in small and mid-sized US markets that have no air affiliation advantages, which replacing the WBN America de facto affiliate status for this area
- CW Plus - The WB 100 successor; the station group consisting mainly of cable-specific outlets that previously served as an affiliate of the WB 100 Station Group and the digital multicast channel
- Foxnet - a special cable network similar to the Fox-less affiliate market, operating from 1991 to 2006
- CTV Two Alberta - a cable-specific affiliate of CTV Two in the Canadian province of Alberta Alberta
- CTV Two Atlantic - the only cable affiliation similar to CTV Two in Atlantic Canada
- The city of Saskatchewan - the only cable-affiliated affiliate of the city's television network in the Canadian Saskatchewan province
References
External links
- The official American WGN website
- WGN.com
- Interview with WGN America
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