Chicagoland Mystery Players was a live television series first shown on local station WGN-TV in Chicago starting in 1947, then picked up by the DuMont Television Network and first aired on the network September 11, 1949.
The band was also broadcast live December 16, 2009, on WGN-TV's "Midday News" program.
He also appeared with members of the Chicago Symphony in a series of telecasts on Chicago's WGN-TV in 1953-54, and a later series of nationally-syndicated programs called Music from Chicago.
Raymond Lefevre conducted an instrumental cover that became the theme song for WGN-TV's Sunday Matinee.
Marshall Brodien, known for his role as Wizzo the Wizard, played a wizard clown that performed on WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus and The Bozo Show from 1968-1994.
He later joined Chicago-based WGN as a publicity writer, subsequently becoming its talent director and main scriptwriter.
In the early 1950s, the Garfield Goose children's TV show on WGN-TV offered a Rubber Tubby Duck as a premium for one On-Cor Minute Steaks wrapper and 25 cents.
From 1988 to 1990, she worked for WTLV-TV in Jacksonville, Florida before moving to WGN-TV in Chicago, working for the morning and midday team.
WGN’s cameras eventually spotted him watching the game through an opening in the stadium’s score board.
King is currently working as a color commentator for Chicago Bulls television broadcasts on Comcast SportsNet Chicago and WGN-TV.
He currently is a co-host of intermission and post-game segments on WGN-TV and Comcast SportsNet broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawks' games.
For a time in the late 1970s up until about 1981, WGN-TV used that introductory fanfare as the music over its broadcast logo at each half-hour.
The song was used by the Chicago station WGN-TV in a montage chronicling the World Series run by the Chicago White Sox in 2005.
WGN-TV, a television station (channel 9.1 virtual/19 digital) licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States
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World's Greatest Newspaper, former slogan of the Chicago Tribune and the namesake for the WGN broadcasting outlets in Chicago, Illinois.
Specifically, the system's data stream was carried on C-Band satellite onboard CNN's (later WGN's) transponder using General Instrument (now part of Motorola) InfoCipher 1500P satmodem technology.
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The stations participating in the co-op, all serving as part-owners, include WOR-New York (Bamberger Broadcasting Service/Macy's), WGN-Chicago (The Chicago Tribune), WLW-Cincinnati (Crosley Broadcasting Corporation) and WXYZ-Detroit (Kunsky-Trendle Broadcasting).
Tom Skilling - WGN-TV chief meteorologist; weeknights at 11 p.m.
In contrast to the primary sports-and-talk formats of WBBM and WGN, MacCormack read romantic and sentimental poetry and played classical, big band and Broadway music.
Fred Silverman, who was a WGN executive at the time, came up with an idea for putting the films to use.
CT (during WGN's 9 p.m. newscast); the numbers are also immediately relayed minutes later on Chicago area all-news radio station WBBM (780 AM/105.9 FM), which formerly also broadcast the drawings until 2006 when the radio broadcasts of the drawings were discontinued in order for WBBM to maintain its "news wheel" schedule.
As a WGN staff meteorologist, he also appeared on the noon and flagship 9:00 pm newscasts, filling in for chief meteorologist Tom Skilling.
He has also worked as an occasional fill-in analyst for the Cubs telecasts on WGN-TV, WCIU-TV, and Comcast SportsNet Chicago when regular analyst Bob Brenly wasn't available.
Prior to the station's launch, there was no affiliate with the network in Wichita; WB programming could only be viewed in the Wichita market through Chicago-based cable superstation WGN, which carried the network's programming nationwide from its January 1995 launch until the summer of 1999.
On May 6, 2008, it was announced that Funk would replace Tom Dore (Comcast Sportsnet) and Wayne Larrivee (WGN-TV) as the play-by-play man for Chicago Bulls games on television.
Tobin has performed on broadcasts for WBEZ-FM, WGN-AM with Jonathon Brandmeier, WCKG-FM, KISS-FM, and WGN-TV (opposite Gary Sinise).
The Nick Digilio Show can currently be heard on WGN Radio in Chicago (720 AM) where Digilio discusses popular culture, current events, all things Chicago, and other hot topics including why the Flavor Bowl from KFC is the best fast food item ever produced, and the fact that there actually once was vegetable flavored Jell-O.
Among the talent that was employed at SMN was Chicago radio legend Eddie Hubbard on the Stardust format, Dean Richards who can be heard on WGN-AM and WGN-TV in Chicago, Karen Williams of WNUA, Dennis Jon Bailey,now morning show host and Marconi Award winner at WIKY Radio in Evansville and John Calhoun, who continues to broadcast in the Chicago market.
Unlike most DuMont offerings which were broadcast from the network's studios in New York City, the series was broadcast from WGN-TV in Chicago.
It aired on July 14, 2001, featuring a guest appearance by singer Billy Corgan, a loyal fan of WGN's Bozo series, who performed Bob Dylan's "Forever Young."
After The Gumps were finally heard on WGN in 1931, the series moved to CBS for a four-year run (1934-1937), produced and directed by Himan Brown with scripts by Irwin Shaw.
An example is Buck in the action/thriller film Kill Bill Volume 1, whose Pussy Wagon pickup truck has a "PSY WGN" plate.
The station's channel 19 signal is also used by Chicago's WGN-TV and WXMI in Grand Rapids, Michigan, causing interference between it and those two stations in the easternmost portions of their coverage area, mainly in Walworth County, which is just outside the Madison market (though WXMI's signal is limited by the Kettle Moraine range west of Jefferson County).
The show was broadcast live by WGN from Marigold in Chicago, produced by National Wrestling Alliance promoter Fred Kohler, with play-by-play by Jack Brickhouse and Vince Lloyd as announcer.