A report on WGN-TV

Former logo, used from August 1983 to May 3, 1993.
Former logo, used from May 3, 1993, to November 10, 2002; as a network affiliate, The WB's logo was placed next to the "9" (which is mirrored as the "G" in the call sign bar).
Former logo, used from November 11, 2002, to May 15, 2017; as a network affiliate, the logos of The WB and The CW, respectively, appeared next to the boxed "9" (which was originally rendered in blue until 2016).
News van outside the Dirksen Federal Building in June 2018.

Independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Silverman in 1979

Fred Silverman

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American television executive and producer.

American television executive and producer.

Silverman in 1979

His 406-page masters thesis analyzed ten years worth of ABC programming and led to his hiring at WGN-TV in Chicago, which was followed by positions at WPIX in New York, and then at CBS.

Mark Suppelsa

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Mark Eugene Suppelsa (born June 25, 1962 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a retired journalist, who worked as an anchor and investigative reporter for WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois.

Skilling's WGN News Chicago professional headshot

Tom Skilling

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American television meteorologist.

American television meteorologist.

Skilling's WGN News Chicago professional headshot

Since 1978, he has worked as a meteorologist at WGN-TV in Chicago.

One Prudential Plaza with Two Prudential Plaza towering behind

One Prudential Plaza

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41-story structure in Chicago completed in 1955 as the headquarters for Prudential's Mid-America company.

41-story structure in Chicago completed in 1955 as the headquarters for Prudential's Mid-America company.

One Prudential Plaza with Two Prudential Plaza towering behind
The structure being built in the 1950s
in 1964
1943 view from One Prudential Plaza location

Its mast served as a broadcasting antenna for Chicago's WGN-TV.

Jackie Bange

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Jackie Bange is the weekend anchor and reporter for independent station WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois.

Illinois State Lottery

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American lottery for the U.S. state of Illinois, operated by Camelot Illinois.

American lottery for the U.S. state of Illinois, operated by Camelot Illinois.

The drawings are supervised by the accounting firm of E.C. Ortiz & Co., LLP and verified by the auditing firm of Mayer Hoffman McCann, P.C. Illinois was the only single jurisdictional state lottery to have their drawings televised nationwide (which were broadcast throughout the United States and much of Canada via WGN-TV's national superstation feed WGN America).

Chicago Herald-Examiner headline; in reality, the death toll was in excess of 695, not 1,000.

Chicago American

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Afternoon newspaper published in Chicago, under various names until its dissolution in 1974.

Afternoon newspaper published in Chicago, under various names until its dissolution in 1974.

Chicago Herald-Examiner headline; in reality, the death toll was in excess of 695, not 1,000.
Circulation figures for Chicago newspapers appearing in Editor & Publisher in 1919. The American's circulation of 330,216 placed it third in the city, behind the Chicago Tribune (424,026) and Chicago Daily News (386,498), and ahead of the Chicago Herald-Examiner (289,094).

Wendell Smith, pioneering African American sports reporter who was requested by Branch Rickey to travel with Jackie Robinson while he was breaking into triple-A and Major League Baseball; later a sportscaster for WGN-TV

Drury at WLS-TV c. 1977.

John Drury (television anchor)

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American television news anchor from Chicago, Illinois.

American television news anchor from Chicago, Illinois.

Drury at WLS-TV c. 1977.
Eyewitness News team, 1972. Back, from left: anchor John Drury, anchor Joel Daly. Front, from left: weatherman John Coleman, anchor Fahey Flynn, sportscaster Bill Frink.

Drury is most known for serving as anchor on Chicago news broadcasts which included: WGN-TV from 1967 to 1970 and again from 1979 until 1984; WLS-TV from 1970 to 1979 and 1984 until his retirement in 2002.

Dan Ponce

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Dan Ponce (born December 7, 1973 in Illinois) is a Chicago television journalist for WGN-TV, radio talk show host on WLS-AM (890) and founder of the a cappella group Straight No Chaser.

NewsNation Prime

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Nightly American television news program on NewsNation, which premiered nationally on September 1, 2020.

Nightly American television news program on NewsNation, which premiered nationally on September 1, 2020.

Originally codenamed Project Neutral, on January 15, 2020, Nexstar announced the program, four months after the company closed on an acquisition of Tribune Media that encompassed much of the latter's broadcast and digital assets (including WGN America, which was the lone wholly owned property among Tribune's cable television assets and remains so as a Nexstar property), and greatly expanded Nexstar's broadcasting portfolio in the 50 largest U.S. television markets (adding stations in such major cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Houston).