[63][64] The sub-licensing agreements as well as the splintering of the team's telecast rights with regional cable sports networks Fox Sports Net Chicago (later FSN Chicago) from 1999 until 2003 and then Comcast SportsNet Chicago/NBC Sports Chicago beginning in 2004 resulted in the number of Cubs games produced by WGN-TV gradually decreasing in recent years (down to 70 per season by 2008). Hale, Bob - Retired from radio. King has served on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind and the communications committee of the American Cancer Society. [24] For the 1962 season, WGN-TV would occasionally cover the Cubs and White Sox games occurring simultaneously, using the respective announcing staffs for both teams, which used "bingo" as a signal to other announcers to switch to coverage of the other ongoing game. )[73][84][86][87] Despite the feed's continued carriage of Cubs and White Sox games and its purposing as the national feed of The WB for markets without a local affiliate, cable provider Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) which provided service to portions of the immediate Chicago area through its Chicago Cable TV arm cited the national restrictions on the Bulls as well as its own decision to make room for additional cable channels for its subsequent decision to remove the national WGN channel from its systems. The purchase made Tribune the second operator of a superstation to own an MLB franchise (alongside Ted Turner, who owned the Atlanta Braves, which aired its games over his Atlanta independent WTBS) and one of three companies that owned television stations in the home markets of the teams they owned (along with Gene Autry, who then owned the California Angels and Los Angeles independent [and eventual WGN-TV sister station] KTLA in Los Angeles). The Sox's eight-year tenure on WFLD ended in acrimony, with WFLD management filing a lawsuit accusing the team of mismanagement that resulted in declining game viewership and profit losses on the contract as well as breached advertising agreements with local auto dealership collective Chicagoland Dodge Dealers. Presided by play-by-play announcer Jack Brickhouse and commentator Vince Lloyd, WGN co-produced the program for national broadcast on the DuMont Television Network, which aired the program from September 1949 until March 1955, during the station's tenure as a DuMont affiliate. The league's Board of Governors applied a set limit in June 1985, restricting the number of seasonal NBA telecasts that could be licensed to superstations to 25 games (which was applied to the Bulls' 1989 contract with Channel 9). On March 7 of that year, Channel 9 acquired the local television rights to broadcast all of the Cubs's daytime home games at Wrigley Field during the 1948 season, beginning with the team's April 23 game, in which the Cubs were set to play against the St. Louis Cardinals. Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson (WGN-TV photo) Suggest a Correction Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. In those cases, although ABC-owned WLS-TV has right of first refusal to MNF simulcasts as its corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company, holds majority ownership of ESPN, WLS management elected to exercise the station's right of first refusal over the game telecasts to avoid preempting ABC's live Monday night broadcast of Dancing with the Stars.[44]. King was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, near Comiskey Park. . The ranks of Chicago's women sports anchors are noticeably smaller today. Dan began his career at WCIA-TV in 1977. (Sportschannel subsequently filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the White Sox as a result, with the new White Sox ownership contending that the original agreement was not binding for the 1982 season as contended by Cablevision. Jack Brickhouse, Lorn Brown, Milo Hamilton and Bob Costas were among those assigned to work as Bulls play-by-play announcers for the WGN telecasts, with Johnny "Red" Kerr serving as an analyst. Benjamin previously served as Columbia's mayor from 2010 to 2021 and currently sits as the CEO and president of the Benjamin Firm, LLC. (During situations when WGN was scheduled to air sports broadcasts in place of network programs from The WB and, from 2006 to 2016, The CW, WGN-TV rebroadcast the sports-displaced network shows on a tape-delayed basis later in the week, usually in a weekend evening timeslot not occupied by a scheduled game telecast, as neither The WB nor The CW has ever aired prime time programs on Saturdays and as The CW had embargoed providing programs on Sundays from September 2009 until October 2018). Steve Stone (1983-2000; 2003-2004) Dan Roan (1984-2019); substitute broadcaster and host of certain specials; WGN only; Dewayne Staats (1985-89) Jim Frey (1987) Dave Nelson (1988-89) Among the Bears games shown on the station were simulcasts of ESPN-televised Monday Night Football broadcasts (including match-ups against the Dallas Cowboys on October 1, 2012, and against the Washington Redskins on September 23, 2019). Gross, Gil - Morning personality at KLAC-AM in Los Angeles. (Under NFL broadcasting rules, games that are televised on the league's national cable partners are required to be simulcast over a local broadcast station in the home markets of the participating teams.) Stephen Benjamin, the former mayor of Columbia, S.C., will be the new senior adviser and director of the Office of Public Engagement, replacing Keisha Lance Bottoms, the White House announced on Monday. She was the station's first female sports anchor. According to family, he was 77 and had. On a stage he'd always dreamed about taking, the former Georgia defensive star stood before a group of reporters and gave an emotional memorial about his friend and former college teammate, Devin Willock, who was killed in a car crash Jan. 15. He attended the De La Salle Institute and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served as sports anchor for the station's 9 p.m. newscast on Saturday and Sunday evenings, and filed sports reports for the station's Sunday through Thursday evening newscasts. [74] On February 20, 1992, attorneys with the NBA, WGN-TV and the Bulls reached an agreement to let WGN broadcast 30 Bulls games for the 199293 season, per the NBA's allotment that teams could license superstations to carry 30 games in a given season (up from both the limits mandated by the injunction and the proposed limit that resulted in the suit), a rule that would remain in place through the 199394 season before reverting to the originally proposed 25-game limit. Anchoring weeknight broadcasts from 8PM to 11PM will be Joe Donlon a . He retired on June 15, 2016, after 48 years in the business. . The service, which evolved into SportsChannel Chicago in 1989, would move exclusively to cable on Cablevision's suburban Chicago systems in January 1984; Sportsvision's over-the-air sports rights were transferred to ONTV around this time. That's our world. With WGN-TV's emerging prominence as a national superstation during the 1980s and 1990s, Caray's fan base and that of the Cubs grew beyond Chicago and the Midwestern U.S. into other parts of the country. Elliot, who has been a CBS daytime anchor for about a year, had first shocked his own bosses on. From November 8, 1978 until December 31, 1989, Tulsa, Oklahoma-based satellite uplink firm United Video Inc. distributed the WGN-TV Chicago signal nationwide, which allowed viewers outside Chicago to watch the station's sports telecasts as they would be seen locally with local advertising and station promotions intact except where league rules applying to superstations (such as the WGNBullsNBA dispute and restrictions on national superstation telecasts based on time periods where broadcast and cable partners held national exclusivity) as mentioned above or requests from local stations that held the exclusive local rights to opponents of the Chicago teams resulted in blackout restrictions applying to the game broadcasts. He wrote a column called 'Kup's Column' in 1948 that highlighted Chicago nightlife . In 2015, King's second book, Back in the Game, was published by Eckhartz Press. Following its launch in January 1993, WGN-TV began leasing airtime on sister cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV) to carry a limited number of live Chicago Cubs game telecasts that were prohibited from airing on the station due to Major League Baseball's national television contracts at the time with CBS and ESPN. Nov 21, 2022, . "Finding solace in memories: Filling book with reflections on wife a labor of love for WGN's King". [36] In the spring of 1972, the Bulls signed a three-year agreement with WSNS-TV to broadcast Bulls basketball games beginning with the 197374 season. Each of the city's major professional sports franchises, along with several area collegiate teams, have had their games regularly televised over channel 9. )[57], As a result of its decision to exempt the station from a renewed affiliation agreement involving the group's 12 other CW-affiliated stations dating to the network's 2006 founding with CW managing partner CBS Corporation, on May 23, 2016, Tribune announced that WGN-TV would convert into an independent station effective September 1. Like Brickhouse, Caray was known for displaying an unapologetic, home team-oriented enthusiasm to his game calls, punctuated with memorable signature catchphrases for big plays (such as Caray's "Holy Cow!" 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In 1989, he had the highest approval rating (75%) among local television and radio sports reporters in a Chicago Sun-Times readers poll. 5.00 (71) 24hr. Roan started his career at WCIA in Champaign, Ill. in 1977. Holidays. The WGN deal marked the first time that the Blackhawks broadcast any of their games on a Chicago-area broadcast television station (outside of occasional network broadcasts), since their away games were carried on the Sportsvision and ONTV subscription services between 1982 and 1985. Along with Jarrett Payton and Josh Frydman, they will cover stories across the Chicago sports spectrum, anchor sports segments throughout WGN newscasts, and host GN Sports, a live half-hour sports show airing seven nights a week at 10:30-11 p.m. Irish Hills Golf & Country Club Perth Brewery Salt Marsh Trail Isla Carmen Life Salon Spa Drumheller's Little Church J. 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This would allow WGN-TV to increase the amount of sports programming that it could air during the calendar year (albeit, with far fewer televised games for each of the contracted teams than it had previously been able to air during its first tenure as an independent between 1956 and 1995) and give it full over-the-air exclusivity over Cubs, White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks telecasts, resulting in the termination of its outsourcing agreement with WPWR (which would concurrently become a primary CW affiliate through an agreement with parent company Fox Television Stations). Throughout its history, WGN-TV has had a long-standing association with Chicago sports. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago television icon Allison Payne has died. The restrictions, however, resulted in some Bulls away games televised by the WGN national feed being unavailable to television providers within the opposing team's designated market if the game was not carried by a national network, a local television station or a regional sports network. [114][115] WGN-TV's final sports telecast involving one of the four legacy professional sports franchises that the station has been involved with during its history was the second game of a White SoxDetroit Tigers doubleheader at Guaranteed Rate Field on September 28, 2019. WGN News Team Dina Bair Anchor/Reporter Jenna Barnes Reporter Robin Baumgarten Anchor Ana Belaval Reporter Chris Boden Anchor/Reporter Tahman Bradley Anchor/Reporter Ben Bradley. Off the Beaten Path. As part of Tribune's conversion of the network from a superstation into a general entertainment cable channel, the company announced that WGN America would no longer broadcast Chicago Cubs, Bulls and White Sox games originated on WGN-TV in the Chicago market to a national audience. Robert Feder. Louis, Missouri, during its tenure as an independent station); select Bulls games aired by WGN and WCIU were also simulcast to many of these same stations and others within the team's designated market territory. At various points between the station's founding in 1948 until 2019, WGN Sports produced telecasts from several of Chicago's major professional sports teams, most notably the Chicago Cubs (MLB), Chicago White Sox (MLB), Chicago Bulls (NBA) and Chicago Blackhawks (NHL). Menu. Self 2 episodes, 2018 Alex Brown . The move substantially reduced the number of games shown on WGN-TV from 144 games in 1997 to 92 games in 1998, with 62 additional WGN-contracted games being placed on CLTV and a select number of additional games originally set to air on CLTV also being shifted to WGN. (The remaining ten televised Fire games will air on the MLS's national broadcast partners, ABC, ESPN, FS1, Univision and UniMs, the latter of which will air locally via O&Os WGBO-DT [channel 66] and WXFT-DT [channel 60], respectively; all WGN-televised Fire matches will also be streamed nationally via ESPN+.) (The first WGN-leased game on CLTV, which provided supplementary local cable coverage to the team's existing agreement with SportsChannel Chicago, was an exhibition game against the Seattle Mariners on March 21, 1993. "Sportscasters We Love to Love . [41], On February 19, 2020, WGN-TV announced a multi-year agreement with Chicago Fire FC, awarding it the exclusive local broadcast rights to the franchise's Major League Soccer games as well as a monthly series featuring interviews and profiles of Fire players, coaches and fans; the initial 2020 season broadcast schedule will encompass 24 regular season matches, 18 of which will air in prime time. WGN is also among the few local television stations to have regularly carried events from teams in any of the five major sports leagues that have historically contracted their games for over-the-air broadcast well into the 21st century, even as professional sports franchises migrated most or all of their locally originated game telecasts to regional sports networks that require a subscription to a multichannel television provider (including cable, satellite, IPTV and fiber-optic-based services) to receive, citing the hefty rights fees those services pay for the contractual rights that factor as major drivers of league and team revenue. Reveal contacts of top WGN Radio AM 720 managers and employees. Former San Diego State and NBA Player - Randy Holcomb Joins Hoot in The Sports Deli Podcast: Where Everyone Deserves a Seat at the Table . CLTV would continue to air select games not covered by the WCIU agreement until 2002. 1, 2022 - 9:27 AM Chris Boden and Kaitlin Sharkey have been hired by Chicago CW station WGN as full-time sports anchors and. The station's telecasts also ran into contractual restrictions after WGN became a charter affiliate of The WB in January 1995. In addition to those shown over WGN-TV within the Chicago market, game telecasts produced by the station were also syndicated to television stations in other parts of Illinois as well as portions of Indiana and Iowa that are within the respective broadcast territories of the contracted teams. The veteran Chicago sportscaster and former Comcast SportsNet Chicago host. Sportscaster Mark Giangreco has worked in Chicago TV for 39 years, 27 of them at ABC7. Former WGN-TV news anchor Allison Payne has reportedly passed away at the age of 57. "[96], In August 1990, the MLB filed a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to propose allowing local television stations to force cable systems to blackout superstation-licensed games involving local franchises within the team's home market through a change in how network program non-duplication rules define a "network program" to include live sports broadcasts shown simultaneously on local and out-of-market stations available via cable. Ed Grennan - Passed away in 2000 due to a heart attack. Former WGN-TV anchor Allison Payne has died at the age of 57. The one exception is the Chicago Bears, who, like other NFL franchises, are bound by network broadcasting contracts by the National Football League for the most part, though most teams license some of their preseason games for regional over-the-air broadcast through in-house syndication units; although the Bears' cable-originated games have occasionally aired on WGN-TV by arrangement with ESPN under NFL provisions pertaining to national cable telecasts within a franchise's home market. Upcoming concerts in the Capital Region. [111][112] The station's final Bulls game aired on April 9, 2019, against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. WGN-TV carried select regular season NFL games involving the Chicago Bears and the now-defunct Chicago Cardinals via DuMont during the 1951 NFL season; following that, the Bears and Cardinals moved their telecasts to ABC and by association, ABC O&O WBKB-TV (now WLS-TV) under a limited contract that lasted until CBS gained primary rights to both teams as part of a league-wide television package in 1956. Show more Show. The parties also agreed to replace the NBA's superstation tax with a revenue sharing model, under which the NBA would collect 50% of all advertising revenue accrued from the national WGN telecasts. (The WCIU telecasts were branded under the "CubsNet," "SoxNet" and "BullsNet" umbrellas until 2004, when WGN began marketing the telecasts under the brand "WGN Sports on The U". Chicago Tribune, June 27, 1980. . Tribune responded to the move with a breach of contract lawsuit, alleging that the action overstepped the bounds of Vincent's authority. 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