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Since the inception of the sports programming unit, the station had produced ancillary pre-game and post-game shows for most of its sporting events, including The Lead-Off Man (pre-game) and The Tenth Inning (post-game) for its Cubs and White Sox baseball telecasts and BullsEye for its telecasts of Bulls basketball games. (WGN America) In 2020, there was nothing hotter on TV than cable news. 75% of royalties from the book went to the American Cancer Society and the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind. All White Sox, Bulls and Cubs games televised on WCIU began to be syndicated to local stations in central Illinois and Iowa through the "WGN Sports Network" service beginning with each team's respective seasons in 2011. [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. Dating back to at least the early 1980s, WGN-TV had syndicated its Chicago Cubs and White Sox telecasts to television stations in parts of the Midwestern U.S. (among them, WCEE [now Daystar owned-and-operated station WPXS] in East St. Louis, IllinoisSt. In February 1984, Dan Roan arrived at WGN in Chicago after working as a sports director at CBS affiliate WCIA, covering the Champaign-Urbana market. U.S. District Judge Suzanne B. Conlon ruled in favor of Tribune and the Cubs in a preliminary ruling on July 23, 1992. King was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, near Comiskey Park. Blackhawks broadcasts on WGN-TV were limited to away games, as then-owner Bill Wirtz had prohibited local coverage of his team's home games out of concern that televising those matches within the Chicago market could negatively impact ticket sales. She was 57. With NBC, he hosted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1998 to 2017 and co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games. 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). Tribune responded to the move with a breach of contract lawsuit, alleging that the action overstepped the bounds of Vincent's authority. [97][98][99], In April 1992, Vincent lobbied Congress to repeal the compulsory license that allowed cable systems to carry superstation signals. $299. 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). [46][47][48] From 1966 to 1991, the station also carried a package of college football and basketball games involving teams in the Big Ten Conference; WGN also aired coverage of high school football games involving teams in the Chicago Public High School League from 1958 to 1979 and the Chicago College All-Star Game from 1948 to 1976. Hale, Bob - Retired from radio. $50. Ed Grennan - Passed away in 2000 due to a heart attack. In connection with the out-of-court settlement between WFLD station management and the White Sox, through the same agreement signed on September 14, 1989 that resulted in that station also re-acquiring the local television rights to the Sox, the Bulls (which Reinsdorf as part of Chicago Professional Sports Limited Partnership, a 23-member majority shareholder group that acquired portions of its 56% share of the team from shares owned by, among others, the estate of longtime owner Arthur M. Wirtz and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner bought in March 1985 for an estimated $9.2 million) announced that it would move its local television broadcasts back to WGN-TV under a five-year deal, beginning with the 198990 season. Roan started his career at WCIA in Champaign, Ill. in 1977. [27] Around this time, White Sox broadcaster Harry Caray joined the WGN family, occasionally acting as a substitute sports anchor for its evening newscasts for most of the 1970s. [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). [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. The longtime news anchor spent 21 years at WGN-TV Channel 9 before retiring 10 years ago. [3] King returned to WGN-TV in an on-camera position as a sports reporter and anchor in August 1991. Here's what that means for fans", "Cubs launching a network of their own, Marquee Sports Network", "Sports media: Will Chicago teams leave WGN-TV without any sports? Show more Show. 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. Channel 9 originally served as the broadcast home for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks from 1961 until 1975. The angles were later used for Cubs game coverage and was quickly adopted for local and national baseball telecasts by other professional and collegiate broadcasters.[49]. [33][34][35] Because of reductions to the team's local over-the-air broadcast schedule (due to shares of its game telecasts being split with regional and national cable sports networks and Major League Baseball's broadcast network partners) predating the Sox's third run on Channel 9, since the White Sox returned to the station in 1990, the number of White Sox games shown on the station had decreased to anywhere between 30 and 40 per season. Dick Bremer. Over the years, many Bears play-by-play broadcasters have included Jack Brickhouse and Wayne Larrivee. In honor, Nick Digilio and listeners discuss the best Chicago News Anchors: Past and Present. Previously, coming to WGN, she served at the NFL Green Bay Packers as a co-host of a weekly 30-minute pre-game show. Janet Rausa Fuller. Kupcinet began writing sports columns for the The Chicago Daily Times (now known as the Sun-Times) in 1935. Mike Barz - sports anchor (now at WISH-TV) Randy Salerno - reporter/substitute anchor (later at WBBM-TV in Chicago, died in 2008) Roseanne Tellez - co-anchor (later at WBBM-TV now co-anchor at WFLD) Bill Weir - sports anchor (now at CNN) Paul Huttner - meteorologist (now Chief Meteorologist at Minnesota Public Radio) Giving on 10. "Masters of the mike - Fans pick best (and worst) sportscasters". [120], During WGN-TV's 37-year run as a national superstation, its national feed which eventually became known as WGN America in August 2008 distributed most of the station's sports telecasts to multichannel television providers throughout the United States and Canada. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks to . [70][71] The new restriction spurred a conspiracy and antitrust lawsuit that was filed by the Bulls (one of two NBA teams that voted against the proposal, along with the New Jersey Nets, then broadcasting over Secaucus, New Jersey-based superstation WWOR-TV) and Tribune Broadcasting with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on October 16, 1990, alleging that the league rules would harm the Bulls, their fans and WGN and that Stern's proposal was aimed at "phas[ing] out such superstations telecasts entirely in increments of five games each year over the next five years." When former WGN-Ch. $35. Now a world traveler. 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. To mark the shift, WGN America changed its named to NewsNation on March 1. Only on WMUR News 9. WGN Radio Sports Reporters Dave Eanet and Mark Carman join John Williams with the story of how Ed Farmer's phone call to President Bush allowed the game to go on, and more fun memories. The move sparked concerns that WGN-TV's revenues from the Cubs telecasts would be impacted if the Cubs were forced to play a larger number of games against other Western Division teams based in the Pacific Time Zone, resulting in an increased number of games being shown in the late evening locally and potentially impact advertising revenue from the 9:00p.m. newscast if it had to delay it after prime time more frequently because of the late baseball starts. 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. According to family, he was 77 and had. [117][118][119] The deal left WGN-TV without sports programming for the first time in the station's 74-year history; however, WGN-TV plans to carry events from LIV Golf starting on February 25, 2023 as part of a time-brokerage deal with Nexstar; although the deal was signed with the CW, WCIU agreed to cede rights to the Chicago market due to cross-ownership. Boden has been a fill-in sports reporter with WGN News since August 2021; he joins the team full-time immediately. 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. King has served on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind and the communications committee of the American Cancer Society. The unrest at the channel's flagship newscast started in earnest last month, when an industry publication reported that. Compartilhar isto. Rich King (born 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sports journalist who worked for CW affiliate and national cable superstation WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the De La Salle Institute and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago. 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