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WMAQ-TV
Chicago, Illinois
Branding NBC 5 Chicago
Channels Analog: 5 (VHF)

Digital: 29 (UHF)
Affiliations NBC
Owner NBC Universal
(NBC Telemundo License Company)
Founded October 8, 1948
Call letters’ meaning We Must Answer Questions
(derived from former sister station WMAQ radio)
Sister station(s) WSNS-TV
Former callsigns WNBQ (1948-1964)
Transmitter Power 20 kW (analog)
350 kW (digital)
Height 494 m (analog)
508 m (digital)
Facility ID 47905
Transmitter Coordinates 41°52′44″N, 87°38′10.2″W
Website www.nbc5.com

WMAQ-TV, channel 5, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, located in Chicago, Illinois. 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 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 Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. 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 The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property NBC Universal is a media and Entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric 's NBC with Vivendi Universal Events 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the 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 In Broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels (or "sibling stations" in gender-neutral form are radio and/or Television stations WSNS-TV 44 is the Telemundo affiliate in Chicago Illinois. It is owned by NBC Universal. In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise 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 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 The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. WMAQ-TV's main studios and offices are located within the NBC Tower in the Streeterville neighborhood, with an auxiliary street-level studio on the Magnificent Mile, and its transmitter is atop the Sears Tower. The NBC Tower is an office tower in the Streeterville neighborhood on the Near north side of Chicago, Illinois. Neighborhoods Cabrini-Green See also Cabrini-Green Cabrini-Green was a notorious Public housing project The Sears Tower, a Skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, has been the tallest building in North America since 1973 WMAQ-TV is a sister station to WSNS-TV (channel 44), affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo, which is also owned by NBC Universal. WSNS-TV 44 is the Telemundo affiliate in Chicago Illinois. It is owned by NBC Universal. Telemundo is an American television network based in Hialeah Florida a suburb of Miami Florida. NBC Universal is a media and Entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric 's NBC with Vivendi Universal

Contents

History

The station officially signed on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ, the last of Chicago's four commercial VHF stations to launch, and the third of the five original NBC owned-and-operated stations, ten months ahead of WNBK (now WKYC-TV) in Cleveland. Events 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. WKYC-TV, channel 3 is an NBC -affiliated television station located in Cleveland Ohio, owned by the Gannett Company. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state Eight years later, it became the first station in the world to broadcast all of its programs in color. Though NBC had long owned WMAQ radio (670 AM, now WSCR), it did not change the TV station's call letters to WMAQ-TV until 1964. WMAQ was an AM radio station in located in Chicago Illinois, USA, and broadcast at 670 kHz with 50000 watts WSCR is a Sports radio station in the Chicago Illinois radio market The calls of its sister radio station were initially assigned by the government, but went on to form the phrase "We Must Ask Questions," which the radio station took on as its motto in the 1920s.

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 reporters Johnny Morris and Greg Gumbel, and commentator Len O'Connor. Floyd Kalber (December 23 1924 – May 13 2004 was a noted American Television Journalist and Anchorman, nicknamed "The Big Tuna John Spencer Palmer (born September 10, 1935, in Kingsport Tennessee) is a former news correspondent for NBC News. Harry Volkman is a popular former Meteorologist from Oklahoma and later Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV, channel 2 is the CBS owned and operated Television station in Chicago, Illinois. WGN-TV, channel 9 is a Television station in Chicago Illinois. WFLD, channel 32 is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation -owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Chicago Illinois. Greg Gumbel (born May 3, 1946) is an American Television Sportscaster. In 1975, Jane Pauley, later of NBC's Today Show, briefly co-anchored WMAQ-TV's 10 p. Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950, in Indianapolis Indiana) is an American Television Journalist, and has been Today, also referred to as The Today Show, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. m. news with Kalber. The station operated from the Merchandise Mart before moving to the NBC Tower in 1989. When opened in 1930 the Merchandise Mart or the Mart, located in Chicago Illinois, was the largest building in the world with of floor space

The station was not only a launching pad for Pauley, but also for a few other personalities before they went national as well, including CBS sportscaster Greg Gumbel, CNN Headline News morning anchor Robin Meade, Inside Edition host Deborah Norville, Maury Povich and The Insider host Pat O'Brien. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Greg Gumbel (born May 3, 1946) is an American Television Sportscaster. Headline News is a Spin-off network from the original Cable News Network ( CNN) television news network in the United States. Robin Michelle Meade (born April 21, 1969) is the lead News anchor for CNN Headline News ' morning show Morning Express with Robin Inside Edition is a syndicated news program on the air since January 9, 1989. Deborah Norville (born August 8, 1958 in Dalton Georgia) is an American television broadcaster and journalist Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich (born January 17, 1939) is an American TV Talk show personality who currently hosts The Insider is a Tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities Pat O'Brien (born February 14, 1948 in Sioux Falls South Dakota) is the former host of The Insider, a spin-off of Entertainment

On January 14, 2008, WMAQ-TV became the second television station in Chicago to broadcast their news in high definition. Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common High-definition television (HDTV is a Digital television Broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition

Controversies

Jerry Springer

WMAQ achieved notoriety in 1997 when the station, in an effort to boost its newscast ratings, hired Jerry Springer as a commentator. Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer (born February 13, 1944) is an English -born American Television personality, a former [1] At the same time, the station adopted a more tabloid news format by bringing in Joel Cheatwood. Joel Cheatwood is an American Television executive best known for creating modern news formats which combine flashy presentation with substantive information to make Previously, Cheatwood was known for establishing fast-paced tabloid newscasts at WSVN in Miami and WHDH-TV in Boston. WSVN, channel 7 is the Fox -affiliated Television station for South Florida, licensed to Miami.

Though Springer was once a two-term mayor of Cincinnati before becoming a news anchor for that city's NBC affiliate WLWT, his association with his infamous talk show (which was, and is, broadcast from WMAQ's NBC Tower studios, and is now distributed by NBC Universal) led to the belief that the newscast was being dumbed down. WLWT, also known as News 5, is a Television station in Cincinnati Ohio, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 5 as an NBC affiliate The Jerry Springer Show is a television Tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer, a former politician broadcast in the United States and other There were a handful of Springer supporters; nevertheless, the incident triggered a lot of negative publicity, both locally and nationally. The station's well-respected longtime anchor team, Carol Marin and Ron Magers, resigned in protest. Carol Marin is a television and print journalist based in Chicago Illinois. Ron Magers is one of the weeknight anchors on WLS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Chicago. News broadcasts at that time originated from a studio that opened onto the station's newsroom. As Marin signed off her last newscast, station personnel stood en masse in the newsroom behind her in a symbolic show of support for her decision to resign. The station saw a drop in its ratings. Springer only made two commentaries before being let go, and station management later called his hiring a mistake.

Magers wound up at rival WLS-TV, where he still is today. WLS-TV, channel 7 is a Television station in Chicago, Illinois. Marin joined rival WBBM-TV while contributing reports at CBS before returning to WMAQ in 2004 as a special correspondent. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network.

Amy Jacobson

On July 10, 2007, Amy Jacobson negotiated her exit with WMAQ, after being videotaped in a bikini with her two sons at the home of Craig Stebic. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Amy Jacobson (born November 1969 is a Chicago broadcaster who was a general assignment Reporter for WMAQ-TV, the NBC Television affiliate in Craig's wife Lisa was missing and had not been found as of that date. Lisa Michelle Stebic, née Ruttenberg (born May 19, 1969) is an American Missing person. The incident raised the issue whether Jacobson crossed a journalistic ethical line in being friendly with a subject of the story. Jacobson reported at WMAQ for the previous 10 years. [2] The video of her at Craig Stebic's home was either taken by or given to WBBM-TV, which has the entire six minute video on their website.


Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannel Programming
5. 1 / 29. 1 main WMAQ-TV/NBC programming
5. 2 / 29. 2 NBC Weather Plus

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [3], WMAQ-TV will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 29. NBC Weather Plus is a 24-hour commercially-sponsored weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and the local affiliates of the [4] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WMAQ-TV's virtual channel as 5. 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

WMAQ's helicopter - Sky5
WMAQ's helicopter - Sky5

Current personalities

Anchors
Reporters
Weather
Sports

Notable alumni

   

Newscast titles

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Steve (July/August 1997). Dick Johnson may refer to Dick Johnson (racing driver, Australian race car driver Dick Johnson (reporter, American television news anchor Carol Marin is a television and print journalist based in Chicago Illinois. Michael David Adamle (born October 4 1949) is a sports personality and former National Football League player The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. Ryan Daniel Peter Baker is a Fictional character in the Australian Soap opera Home and Away, portrayed since mid- 2005 John Coleman is an American news weathercaster He founded The Weather Channel (but is no longer affiliated with it and presently works as an on-camera weathercaster at Chet Coppock (born 1949 is an Emmy award-winning radio broadcaster television broadcaster and sports talk personality Jim Cummins may refer to Jim Cummins (professor, instructor at the University of Toronto Jim Cummins (hockey, retired professional ice Mark Giangreco is a sports anchor for WLS-TV in Chicago. He joined ABC in 1994 Greg Gumbel (born May 3, 1946) is an American Television Sportscaster. Chuck Henry (born January 1, 1946 in Los Angeles California) is a popular Los Angeles Television personality and an Emmy Award -winning Walter Jacobson (born July 28 1937 is a Chicago Television news personality and former anchor who hosted FOX Chicago Perspective, a one-hour Amy Jacobson (born November 1969 is a Chicago broadcaster who was a general assignment Reporter for WMAQ-TV, the NBC Television affiliate in Floyd Kalber (December 23 1924 – May 13 2004 was a noted American Television Journalist and Anchorman, nicknamed "The Big Tuna Jon Kelley (born August 5, 1965) is an award winning American sports journalist author producer and television personality Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966 in Louisiana) is an American journalist currently anchoring the primetime weekend version of CNN Newsroom. Ron Magers is one of the weeknight anchors on WLS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Chicago. Robin Michelle Meade (born April 21, 1969) is the lead News anchor for CNN Headline News ' morning show Morning Express with Robin Erin Moriarty is a CBS News correspondent From 1983-86 Moriarty served as a consumer reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Johnny Edward Morris (born September 26, 1935 in Long Beach California) is a former American football Running back / Wide receiver Rich Newberg is a reporter for News 4 Buffalo, WIVB -TV He joined the CBS affiliate in 1978 as a weekend anchorman Deborah Norville (born August 8, 1958 in Dalton Georgia) is an American television broadcaster and journalist Pat O'Brien (born February 14, 1948 in Sioux Falls South Dakota) is the former host of The Insider, a spin-off of Entertainment Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950, in Indianapolis Indiana) is an American Television Journalist, and has been Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich (born January 17, 1939) is an American TV Talk show personality who currently hosts Max Robinson ( May 1, 1939 – December 20, 1988) was an American Television Journalist and was the Chicago Mark Schanowski Chicago Sports broadcasting veteran Schanowski is primary host for the network's Chicago Bulls studio coverage on Bulls Pre-Game Live as Carole Simpson was an American Television news anchor at ABC News. Tammie Souza is a Meteorologist in Chicago, Illinois. She will be moving to WTSP-TV in Tampa Florida this October to take the Rafael Suarez Jr (born March 5, 1957) better known as Ray Suarez, is a senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Mark Eugene Suppelsa (born June 25 1962 in Milwaukee Wisconsin) is the co-anchor of the WGN-TV News at Nine with Allison Payne. Jerry Taft (born March 11, 1943) is the chief meteorologist for WLS-TV in Chicago Harry Volkman is a popular former Meteorologist from Oklahoma and later Chicago, Illinois. Linda Yu ( Xian, China, 1947) is a news anchor for WLS-TV in Chicago. NewsCenter ( NotiCentro in Spanish) is the name given to a number of local-news operations at American Television stations How Low Can TV News Go?. Columbia Journalism Review.
  2. ^ Rosenthal, Phil (2007-07-10). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Jacobson out at WMAQ. Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Tribune is a major daily Newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and owned by the Tribune Company Retrieved on 2007-07-10. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
  3. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  4. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101233071&formid=387&fac_num=47905

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