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9 unusual facts about WTTW


Chief White Eagle

Chief White Eagle also hosted Totem Club on WTTW during the 1960s, including a segment called "Indian Stories with Chief White Eagle".

Dan Ponce

Dan’s father is Phil Ponce, a Chicago television journalist who hosts Chicago Tonight, a nightly television magazine of news and culture on PBS member station WTTW (channel 11).

Ebert Presents: At the Movies

Ebert Presents: At the Movies was filmed at the studios of WTTW in Chicago, where Ebert and Siskel's version of the program (originally titled Opening Soon at a Theater Near You) began filming 36 years earlier.

Horror of Fang Rock

On 22 November 1987 a broadcast of Horror of Fang Rock by Chicago television station WTTW was interrupted for around 90 seconds by a pirate broadcast featuring an individual disguised as television character Max Headroom.

IL-Informed

The half-hour long pilot was produced by PBS member station WTTW (Channel 11) and premiered locally on Sunday, May 4, 2008.

Mark Tatge

He is a guest commentator on national news shows, including CNBC, ABC American Broadcasting Company, MSNBC, National Public Radio, Fox Business Network, PBS station WOUB-TV, and Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW.

Michael Weishan

Co-produced with WTTW Chicago, the program will be the first new gardening show on PBS in over a decade, and is expected to debut winter 2015.

Redd Griffin

Griffin left Shimer in 1958 to work in production at WTTW, Chicago's public television station.

The Soundstage Sessions

The Soundstage Sessions was recorded in October 2007 before an intimate audience at WTTW's Grainger Studio in Chicago, with the set list containing 18 songs.


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Alpana Singh

Singh became especially well known for hosting the local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television station WTTW's restaurant review show, Check, Please! and her regular appearances on Chicago Tonight for the "Ask Alpana" segment on Thursday evenings.

Multichannel television sound

The Telesonics system was tested and refined using the WTTW transmitter facilities on the Sears Tower.

North Park, Chicago

The Good Counsel Province of the Polish Felician Sisters is headquartered in this neighborhood, as is Chicago's PBS station, WTTW, in the Chicago Production Center.

Ralph Pape

In 1983, Say Goodnight, Gracie was adapted by the author for a 90-minute teleplay which was seen on Chicago's PBS affiliate WTTW with the original Steppenwolf cast of Joan Allen, Jeff Perry, Glenne Headly, Francis Guinan and John Malkovich.

Sneak Previews

In 1982, WTTW quickly signed Neal Gabler and Jeffrey Lyons as replacements for Siskel and Ebert on Sneak Previews.


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