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WFLD
Chicago, Illinois
Branding Fox Chicago (general)
Fox News Chicago (newscasts)
Slogan The Most Powerful Name in Local News
Channels Analog: 32 (UHF)

Digital: 31 (UHF)
Affiliations Fox
Owner Fox Television Stations
(Fox Television Stations, Inc. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property The Fox Television Stations are a group of television stations located within the United States which are Owned-and-operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company )
First air date January 4, 1966
Call letters’ meaning FieLD Communications
(the station's founding owner)
Sister station(s) WPWR-TV
Former affiliations Independent (1966-1986)
Transmitter Power 5000 kW (analog)
690 kW (digital)
Height 418. Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise Field Communications was a division of Field Enterprises, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News In Broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels (or "sibling stations" in gender-neutral form are radio and/or Television stations WPWR-TV, channel 50 is a MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station licensed to Gary Indiana, and serving the Chicago Illinois area An independent station is Television terminology used to describe a Television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not In radio Telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power (ERP is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency (RF The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. Height above average terrain ( HAAT) (or less popularly EHAAT, Effective Height Above Average Terrain is used extensively in FM Radio and 4 m (analog)
475 m (digital)
Facility ID 22211
Transmitter Coordinates 41°53′55.7″N, 87°37′23.9″W (analog)
41°52′44″N, 87°38′10.2″W (digital)
Website www.myfoxchicago.com

WFLD is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Chicago, Illinois. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The station operates on channel 32, though it is identified on the air as simply "Fox Chicago. " WFLD is co-owned with WPWR-TV (channel 50), Chicago's MyNetworkTV affiliate. WPWR-TV, channel 50 is a MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station licensed to Gary Indiana, and serving the Chicago Illinois area MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company WFLD's studios and offices are located in Chicago's Loop neighborhood, and its transmitter sits on top of the John Hancock Center. Population According to the 2000 Census, 16388 people live in the Loop The John Hancock Center at 875 N Michigan Ave. in Chicago, Illinois, is a 100- story, 1127-foot (344 m tall Skyscraper

WFLD is a typical Fox station airing over thirty-seven hours of news every week along with syndicated first run talk/court/reality shows, off-network sitcoms, Fox's primetime network programming, and sports.

Contents

History

The station signed on January 4, 1966, from its original studios within the Marina City complex on State Street. Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Marina City is a mixed-use residential/commercial building complex occupying an entire city block on State Street in Chicago, State Street is a major north-south thoroughfare in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Its founding owner was Field Enterprises, which also owned the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News and was owned by heirs of the Marshall Field's department store chain. Field Communications was a division of Field Enterprises, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily Newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily Newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago Illinois. Marshall Field's ( Marshall Field & Company) was an iconic Chicago Illinois, Department store that grew to become a major chain before being acquired The station was christened the "Station of Tomorrow" by the Sun-Times in an April 1966 article because of its innovative technical developments in broadcasting its signal. It also broadcast news from the Sun-Times/Daily News newsroom.

Field Enterprises sold controlling interest in WFLD to Kaiser Broadcasting in 1972, and the two companies' new partnership would see WFLD joining Kaiser's stable of UHF independent stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit. Kaiser Broadcasting was the name of an entity that owned and operated Broadcast television stations in the United States from 1958 to 1977 KVEA, "Telemundo 52" is an NBC -owned and operated television station in the Los Angeles area and is the West Coast flagship station of the WLVI-TV, channel 56 is a CW Television Network affiliate licensed to Cambridge Massachusetts, and serving the Boston Massachusetts television market WKBS-TV was an independent television station licensed to Burlington New Jersey, which served the Philadelphia Pennsylvania area from 1965 to 1983 This page is about the existing television station in Cleveland Ohio. WKBD, channel 50 is an owned-and-operated station of the CW Television Network, based in Detroit Michigan. In 1977, Kaiser ended the partnership by selling its share of the stations back to Field Enterprises.

From the late 1960s to the 1980s, WFLD carried a wide variety of syndicated series, movies, and local public affairs programming. To counter-program against its more established VHF rivals, channel 32 offered documentaries, adult dramas, westerns, and live sports, though for much of the time it trailed WGN-TV (channel 9) in the ratings among Chicago's independent stations until the late 1970s. Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. WGN-TV, channel 9 is a Television station in Chicago Illinois. When it won bids to air shows in syndication such as M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Happy Days, and others, the station finally beat WGN-TV in the ratings, and the two stations continued to go head-to-head throughout the 1980s. M*A*S*H was a Medical drama / Black comedy produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS. All in the Family is an American Situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12 1971 to April Happy Days is an American Television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 to 1984 on ABC.

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. The Chicago White Sox are a professional Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. During the 1980s WFLD also aired games of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, until WGN-TV acquired broadcast rights to both teams in 1990 (Chicago-area attorney and real estate investor Jerry Reinsdorf owns both franchises). The Chicago Bulls are an American professional Basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Jerry M Reinsdorf (born February 25 1936) is a CPA, lawyer and the majority owner of both the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago WFLD was also noteworthy as the longtime home of the local B-movie program Svengoolie. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double Svengoolie is the name of a character from a long-running series of locally produced Television programs in the Chicago Illinois area There were two versions of this show; the original began in 1971 as "Screming Yellow Theatre" with local disc jockey Jerry G. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Bishop doing scary voices and later wearing a long blond wig and such. Bishop became such a hit with viewers that the show was popularly called "Svengoolie" after his character (although the name didn't change), and this version lasted until 1973. The second version began in 1979 with Rich Koz as "Son Of Svengoolie", and it ran until 1986. Rich Koz (b 1952 is a Chicago area Actor and broadcaster best known as horror-movie host Svengoolie. The show currently airs on WCIU-TV (channel 26). WCIU-TV is an independent television station, located in Chicago Illinois.

In 1983, Field sold WFLD to Metromedia as part of a company-wide liquidation. Metromedia (also often MetroMedia) was a media company that owned radio and Television stations in the United States from 1956 At that time programming changed slightly but graphics were abruptly changed to reflect the new ownership. 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. News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation

Following the 1986 sale to the new Fox ownership, the station continued to compete aggressively in the market. Now known on-air as Fox 32, the station expanded its news presence as well. Fox's news presence began in 1987 with the premiere of the half-hour "Fox 32 News at 7" (touted as "the news that doesn't get home before you do") along with a half-hour 11:00 PM newscast[1] which lasted until they consolidated both newscasts to compete with then-independent WGN's 9PM newscast. The newscast was moved back to 7:00 PM by the fall of 1988,[2] and returned to 9:00 PM by the fall of 1989,[3] in anticipation of Fox's expanding prime time schedule. Sometime in 1991, the newscast was rebranded its news operation from "Fox 32 News" to "Fox News Chicago" (though most verbal references are to simply "Fox News"). The station started airing a morning newscast called Fox Thing in the Morning in place of the morning cartoon block.

The afternoon cartoon block, which became Fox Kids by 1992, continued on the station, as well as the top-rated off-network sitcoms in the evening. Fox Kids (officially Fox Family Worldwide Inc and prior to that Fox Children's Productions and Fox Kids Worldwide was the FOX network's children's programming division It also added more first-run talk shows and court shows. When Fox ended the weekday kids block in January of 2002, WFLD added more first-run reality and talk shows to the lineup.

In the mid-1990s, after several years of being known on the air as "Fox 32" (or even "Fox Thirty-Two"), the station rebranded itself as "Fox Chicago" due to the fact that many Chicagoans watch WFLD via cable (Channel 12 or Channel 3 on most area cable systems). Fox purchased WPWR-TV in 2002, and WPWR's operations were integrated into WFLD's facilities in downtown Chicago.

In January 2003, WFLD dropped the Fox Saturday morning cartoon block, now outsourced by Fox to producer "4 Kids TV", and the programs now air on WPWR in the same four-hour time block. WFLD is 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.

On May 7, 2006, WFLD adopted a new look for its newscasts, featuring a brand new set, new music, and new graphics. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Similar appearance packages are also being rolled out to other Fox-owned stations such as WNYW. Unlike other affiliates using the look, WFLD does not use the usual Fox mandate of the Fox (Channel Number) branding due to being the largest FOX owned-and-operated station on the UHF dial. When the new look debuted, the main station logo wasn't changed much (only the new color scheme was added).

On September 11, 2006, WFLD relaunched its website under the MyFox platform (which was rolled out to other Fox-owned stations throughout 2006), now located at myfoxchicago.com. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. On April 9, 2007, WFLD launched a new 10:00 PM 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 10PM news on its second day on the air. Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. David Novarro is an American journalist He is anchor of "The Ten" alongside Lauren Cohn on Fox News Chicago WLS-TV, channel 7 is a Television station in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV, channel 2 is the CBS owned and operated Television station in Chicago, Illinois. Lauren Cohn (1966- co-anchors the weekday edition of FOX News Chicago at 10 p The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily Newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV, channel 2 is the CBS owned and operated Television station in Chicago, Illinois. In September 2007, WFLD's morning newscast "Fox News in the Morning" was re-named "Good Day Chicago".

For some time, WFLD's newscasts have had less of a tabloid feel than those on its Fox sisters. Tabloid television is similar to Tabloid Newspapers Tabloid television newscasts usually incorporate flashy graphics However, they are somewhat flashier than the other newscasts in

As a Fox Television Network affilate, WFLD broadcasts the Chicago Bears football games as they are an National Football Conference franchise and Fox is the primary network for NFC teams of the NFL. The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. The National Football Conference ( NFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league.

Digital television

Channel Programming
32. 1 / 31. 1 main WFLD/Fox programming

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [4], WFLD will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 31. [5] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WFLD's virtual channel as 32. The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP is the protocol used in the ATSC and DVB digital television systems for carrying Metadata In Telecommunications, a logical channel number (LCN also known as virtual channel in North America, is a channel designation which differs

News personalities

Current

Anchors

Reporters

Fox Chicago Weather Team

Sports

Former

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

Station slogans

References

  1. ^ TV Guide Chicago Issue #1798
  2. ^ TV Guide Chicago Issue #1853
  3. ^ TV Guide Chicago Issue #1902
  4. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  5. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101232742&formid=387&fac_num=22211

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