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Independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Chicagoland Mystery Players
0 linksChicagoland Mystery Players was a live television series first shown on local station WGN-TV in Chicago starting in 1949, then picked up by the DuMont Television Network and first aired on the network September 11, 1949.
Ned Locke
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Norbert Locke, better known as Ned Locke (December 25, 1919 – February 4, 1992), was an American television personality and radio announcer, best known for the role of "Ringmaster Ned" on WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus from 1961 - 1976.
The CW Plus
3 linksSecondary national programming service feed of The CW, owned by The CW Network, LLC , that is intended primarily for American television markets ranked #100 and above by Nielsen Media Research estimates.
Secondary national programming service feed of The CW, owned by The CW Network, LLC , that is intended primarily for American television markets ranked #100 and above by Nielsen Media Research estimates.
By its design, the initial cable-only composition of The WB 100+ Station Group’s affiliate body acted as a workaround to issues that The WB had encountered since its December 1993 founding with securing broadcast affiliates; these difficulties resulted in The WB having to rely on the national superstation feed of Chicago affiliate WGN-TV (later WGN America, relaunched as NewsNation in March 2021) to distribute its programming to markets without existing over-the-air WB affiliates.
KTVU
7 linksTelevision station licensed to Oakland, California, United States, broadcasting the Fox network to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Television station licensed to Oakland, California, United States, broadcasting the Fox network to the San Francisco Bay Area.
However, the station was unable to compete with WTBS (now WPCH-TV) in Atlanta, and two other independent stations that were uplinked to satellite as superstations in the two years after KTVU gained national distribution, WGN-TV in Chicago and WOR-TV (now co-owned MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV) in New York City, and began to scale down its national coverage via cable in 1982.
WWOR EMI Service
4 linksNew York City-based American cable television channel that operated as a superstation feed of Secaucus, New Jersey-licensed WWOR-TV .
New York City-based American cable television channel that operated as a superstation feed of Secaucus, New Jersey-licensed WWOR-TV .
In April 1979, Eastern began to uplink the signal for satellite and cable subscribers throughout the United States, joining WGN-TV in Chicago and WTBS (now WPCH-TV) in Atlanta as a national superstation.
Brigid Bazlen
0 linksAmerican film, television and stage actress.
American film, television and stage actress.
![Bazlen portrays Salome, seen here performing an erotic dance in order to incite King Herod with lust into giving her "anything [she] wants" – in other words, the head of John the Baptist.](https://hyperleap.com/images/ecc5f563e5b84f2eef21e6597e0f85e7/200-6bf7a07484db84334c8c6eb53f1bf1da.jpg)
In 1958, Bazlen won the starring role in the children's program The Blue Fairy, broadcast by the independent station WGN-TV in Chicago on Monday nights (7:30 pm – 8:00 pm).
Bozo the Clown
4 linksClown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century.
Clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century.
It also became the most widely known Bozo show as WGN-TV became a national cable television Superstation.
Gemstar–TV Guide International
1 linksMedia company that licensed interactive program guide technology to multichannel video programming distributors such as cable and satellite television providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers; video recorder scheduling codes under brands such as VCR Plus; as well as serving as publishers of TV Guide magazine as well as operators of tvguide.com, owners of TV Guide Network and TVG Network, and provided various related services.
Media company that licensed interactive program guide technology to multichannel video programming distributors such as cable and satellite television providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers; video recorder scheduling codes under brands such as VCR Plus; as well as serving as publishers of TV Guide magazine as well as operators of tvguide.com, owners of TV Guide Network and TVG Network, and provided various related services.
Thanks to their experience in distributing Chicago's WGN-TV via microwave, they were chosen to distribute WGN's signal nationwide via satellite uplink (after a period where UV competed with several other firms, including another Tulsa-based uplink firm, Southern Satellite Systems).
Chicago Thanksgiving Parade
1 linksAnnual parade produced and presented by the Chicago Festival Association .
Annual parade produced and presented by the Chicago Festival Association .
It is televised locally on WAOE and its sister stations; from 2007 to 2019 the event was carried on WGN-TV and its superstation feed nationwide.
Joey D'Auria
2 linksAmerican film, television and voice actor, best known for his role as Bozo the Clown in The Bozo Show, succeeding original actor Bob Bell.
American film, television and voice actor, best known for his role as Bozo the Clown in The Bozo Show, succeeding original actor Bob Bell.
New York City native Joey D'Auria is best known for his role in WGN-TV Chicago's The Bozo Show from 1984 to 2001.