WGN Chicago

Tribune taps the former GM of its Indianapolis duopoly to succeed Greg Easterly as head of the CW affil and the CLTV cable news channel.

In a rare change of network affiliations in Chicago, the CW Network will move this fall from Tribune Media’s WGN to Fox-owned WPWR, sources said Sunday. The switch, expected to be announced Monday, will return WGN to an independent station with a strictly local programming lineup, starting in September. 

Tribune-owned CWaffiliate WGN Chicago (DMA 3) has hired Lauren Magiera as sports anchor/reporter, slated to start mid-April. Magiera joins WGN from the NFL Green Bay Packers, where she was a […]

Tribune Media is divesting more Chicago real estate. Just months after putting the city’s iconic Tribune Tower on the block, the Chicago-based broadcasting and content development company has announced it is selling  the home of Tribune Media-owned WGN-TV that comprises a 10-acre lot with a building housing the CW affiliate and sibling cable news outlet CLTV staff and a surface parking lot.

Officials at Tribune’s Chicago flagship acknowledged that the station was wrong to use a universally reviled symbol of the Holocaust to illustrate a story heralding the start of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, on its late newscast Tuesday.

Tribune flagship WGN Chicago has launched a redesigned news app execs say delivers live streams, news alerts and local coverage faster and more seamlessly than its predecessor. In addition to […]

WGN News at Ten will follow the Tribune station’s 9 p.m. newscast and feature anchors Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre, Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and Dan Roan with sports.

Tribune-owned CW affiliate WGN Chicago will provide live coverage of the 58th running of the Illinois Derby from Hawthorne Race Course on Saturday, April 18, from 5 to 6 p.m. […]

Throughout the month of February, Tribune Broadcasting’s CW affiliate WGN Chicago (DMA 3) will air special news segments on WGN News at Nine, WGN Midday News and People to People […]

The Chicago Cubs and Tribune Media’s CW affiliate WGN Chicago may not be breaking up after all. More than a year after the team exercised an option in its contract with the station to opt out after the 2014 season, the two sides are finalizing a new agreement to broadcast 45 games each year through 2019, according to a source close to the negotiations. The team awarded rights to 25 games to ABC O&O WLS last month.

Tribune CW affiliate WGN Chicago (DMA 3) today named Aline Cox executive producer of its six-hour WGN Morning News, effective immediately. Cox is replacing Sandy Pudar, who was recently elevated […]

The Chicago Cubs have hired their manager, begun renovations on their historic ballpark and are restocking their Major League team with promising young talent and the expectation of free agents to come, leaving one major item on their off-season to-do list — finding a new television home. While the team’s long-term play is to create a regional sports network, sources say the Cubs are working on a return to CW affil WGN-TV next season, perhaps with a reduced broadcast schedule and the potential for revenue sharing.

Jeff Hoover, the veteran WGN Chicago Morning News producer lanents what the awards have become:  “I have to believe that there is no category for me anymore. It’s time to look at the bigger picture. As long as I am having fun and making people laugh and smile, that’ll always be better than another Emmy to me.”

Mike Frydman has been promoted to national/regional sales manager at the Chicago CW affiliate. Frydman joined the Tribune-owned station in 2006 as an account executive.

Sandy Pudar today was named assistant news director of Tribune Media’s WGN-TV Chicago (DMA 3), effective immediately. A 15-year veteran of WGN News, Pudar has worked in a variety of […]