DMA 3 (CHICAGO)
WMAQ, FM Station Testing News Partnership
Nobody knows where it’s headed, but starting this week a news sharing partnership is quietly being tested between Chicago’s NBC-owned WMAQ and Merlin Media’s all-news WIQI-FM. The two are taking a few tentative steps toward an arrangement similar to that between two of Chicago’s CBS-owned stations — WBBM-TV and all-news WBBM-AM.