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.infobox-header{background-color:hsl(210,100%,10%);color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .ib-tv-station-atsc3.infobox-above{background-color:hsl(240,100%,10%)}}</style><table class="infobox vcard ib-tv-station"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">WLS-TV</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size ib-tv-station-logo" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:WABC-TV-Logo-2021.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/WABC-TV-Logo-2021.png/180px-WABC-TV-Logo-2021.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/WABC-TV-Logo-2021.png/270px-WABC-TV-Logo-2021.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/WABC-TV-Logo-2021.png/360px-WABC-TV-Logo-2021.png 2x" data-file-width="579" data-file-height="424" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, Illinois</li><li>United States</li></ul></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Television_channel_frequencies" title="Television channel frequencies">Channels</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Digital_terrestrial_television" title="Digital terrestrial television">Digital</a>: 22 (<a href="/wiki/UHF" class="mw-redirect" title="UHF">UHF</a>), shared with <a href="/wiki/WXFT-DT" title="WXFT-DT">WXFT-DT</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Virtual_channel" title="Virtual channel">Virtual</a>: 7</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branding</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>ABC 7 Chicago</li><li><i>ABC 7 <a href="/wiki/Eyewitness_News" title="Eyewitness News">Eyewitness News</a></i></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Programming</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><b>7.1:</b> <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a></li><li><b>7.2:</b> <a href="/wiki/Localish" title="Localish">Localish</a></li><li><b>7.3:</b> <a href="/wiki/Charge!_(TV_network)" title="Charge! (TV network)">Charge!</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Ownership</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/ABC_Owned_Television_Stations" title="ABC Owned Television Stations">ABC Owned Television Stations</a></li><li>(WLS Television, Inc.)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">First air date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">September 17, 1948<span class="noprint"> (76 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1948-09-17</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Former call signs</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>WENR-TV (1948–1953)</li><li>WBKB (1953–1965)</li><li>WBKB-TV (1965–1968)<sup id="cite_ref-cards_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cards-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Former channel number(s)</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><b>Analog:</b> 7 (<a href="/wiki/VHF" class="mw-redirect" title="VHF">VHF</a>, 1948–2009)</li><li><b>Digital:</b> 52 (UHF, 1996–2009), 7 (VHF, June–October 2009), 44 (UHF, October 2009–2019)</li><li><b>Translator:</b> 7 (VHF, 2009–2013)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Network_affiliate" title="Network affiliate">Former affiliations</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Tele1st (OTA <a href="/wiki/Subscription_television" class="mw-redirect" title="Subscription television">subscription television</a>, 1984 overnights)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Call_sign" title="Call sign">Call sign</a> meaning</div></th><td class="infobox-data">See former sister station <a href="/wiki/WLS_(AM)" title="WLS (AM)">WLS (AM)</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Technical information<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Licensing authority</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/FCC" class="mw-redirect" title="FCC">FCC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Facility_ID" title="Facility ID">Facility ID</a></th><td class="infobox-data">73226</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Effective_radiated_power" title="Effective radiated power">ERP</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1,000 kW</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Height_above_average_terrain" title="Height above average terrain">HAAT</a></th><td class="infobox-data">518 m (1,699 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Transmitter coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=WLS-TV&params=41_52_44_N_87_38_8_W_type:landmark_scale:2000"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">41°52′44″N</span> <span class="longitude">87°38′8″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">41.87889°N 87.63556°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">41.87889; -87.63556</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Links</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Public license information </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/tv-profile/WLS-TV">Public file</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=73226">LMS</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://abc7chicago.com/">abc7chicago<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>WLS-TV</b> (channel 7) is a <a href="/wiki/Television_station" title="Television station">television station</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> network outlet. It has been <a href="/wiki/Owned_and_operated" class="mw-redirect" title="Owned and operated">owned and operated</a> by the network's <a href="/wiki/ABC_Owned_Television_Stations" title="ABC Owned Television Stations">ABC Owned Television Stations</a> division since the station's inception. WLS-TV's studios are located on <a href="/wiki/State_Street_(Chicago)" title="State Street (Chicago)">North State Street</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Loop" title="Chicago Loop">Chicago Loop</a>, and its transmitter is located atop the <a href="/wiki/Willis_Tower" title="Willis Tower">Willis Tower</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="WENR-TV_(1948–1953)"><span id="WENR-TV_.281948.E2.80.931953.29"></span>WENR-TV (1948–1953)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: WENR-TV (1948–1953)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The station first signed on the air on September 17, 1948, as WENR-TV.<sup id="cite_ref-cards_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cards-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the third television station to sign on in the Chicago market behind <a href="/wiki/WGN-TV" title="WGN-TV">WGN-TV</a> (channel 9), which debuted six months earlier in April, and WBKB (channel 4), which changed from an experimental station to a commercial operation in September 1946. As one of the original ABC-owned stations on channel 7, it was the second station to begin operations after <a href="/wiki/WABC-TV" title="WABC-TV">WJZ-TV</a> in New York City, and before <a href="/wiki/WXYZ-TV" title="WXYZ-TV">WXYZ-TV</a> in Detroit, <a href="/wiki/KGO-TV" title="KGO-TV">KGO-TV</a> in San Francisco and <a href="/wiki/KABC-TV" title="KABC-TV">KECA-TV</a> in Los Angeles. </p><p>The station's original call letters were taken from co-owned radio station WENR (890 AM), which served as an affiliate of the ABC Radio Network (WENR would eventually merge with <a href="/wiki/WLS_(AM)" title="WLS (AM)">WLS</a>, with which it shared a frequency under a time-sharing arrangement until ABC purchased a 50% interest in WLS in 1954). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="WBKB-TV_(1953–1968)"><span id="WBKB-TV_.281953.E2.80.931968.29"></span>WBKB-TV (1953–1968)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: WBKB-TV (1953–1968)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 1953, ABC merged with <a href="/wiki/Plitt_Theatres" title="Plitt Theatres">United Paramount Theatres</a> (UPT), the former theater division of <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>. UPT subsidiary <a href="/wiki/Balaban_and_Katz" title="Balaban and Katz">Balaban and Katz</a> owned WBKB (which shared a <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> affiliation with WGN-TV). The newly merged <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting-Paramount_Theatres" title="American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres">American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres</a>, as the company was known then, could not keep both stations because of <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) regulations then enforced that forbade the <a href="/wiki/Duopoly_(broadcasting)" title="Duopoly (broadcasting)">common ownership of two television stations</a> licensed to the same <a href="/wiki/Media_market" title="Media market">market</a>. As a result, WBKB's channel 4 license was sold to CBS, which subsequently changed that station's call letters to <a href="/wiki/WBBM-TV" title="WBBM-TV">WBBM-TV</a>; that outlet would move to <a href="/wiki/VHF" class="mw-redirect" title="VHF">VHF</a> channel 2 several months later on July 5, 1953. The old WBKB's on-air and behind-the-scenes staff stayed at the new WBBM-TV, while the WBKB call letters and management moved to channel 7 (from 1965 to 1968, a "-TV" suffix was included in the station's calls, modifying it to WBKB-TV<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="WLS-TV_(1968–present)"><span id="WLS-TV_.281968.E2.80.93present.29"></span>WLS-TV (1968–present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: WLS-TV (1968–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sterling "Red" Quinlan served as the station's <a href="/wiki/General_manager" title="General manager">general manager</a> from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and became a giant in early Chicago television. Quinlan was instrumental in starting the careers of <a href="/wiki/Tom_Duggan" title="Tom Duggan">Tom Duggan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Reynolds" title="Frank Reynolds">Frank Reynolds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Newhart" title="Bob Newhart">Bob Newhart</a>. The station courageously aired <i>The Tom Duggan Show</i> in the mid-1950s, which became the most popular show in the Chicago market, far outdrawing other network competition. Channel 7 had its call letters changed to WLS-TV on October 7, 1968,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> named after WLS Radio, which ABC had wholly owned since 1959 when the network bought the 50% interest it did not already hold in the station from the <i><a href="/wiki/Prairie_Farmer" title="Prairie Farmer">Prairie Farmer</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ironically, ABC merged WLS with WENR, its shared-time partner, in 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1963, Al Parker joined the station as an announcer and worked in that capacity for 26 years. Until his departure, he also served as an announcer for <i>AM Chicago</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Oprah_Winfrey_Show" title="The Oprah Winfrey Show">The Oprah Winfrey Show</a></i>. He died September 30, 2000, at the age of 74.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>WLS-TV had claimed to be "Chicago's first television station" in its <a href="/wiki/Sign-on_and_sign-off" title="Sign-on and sign-off">sign-ons and sign-offs</a> during its first three decades (implying a connection with the original WBKB on channel 4), but admitted to its true roots with WENR with its 30th anniversary in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Tele1st"></span>On January 17, 1984, WLS-TV launched Tele1st, an ABC-owned overnight <a href="/wiki/Subscription_television" class="mw-redirect" title="Subscription television">subscription television</a> service that carried a mix of <a href="/wiki/Feature_film" title="Feature film">films</a> and lifestyle programs for four hours per night six days a week after the station's <a href="/wiki/Sign-off" class="mw-redirect" title="Sign-off">sign-off</a> at 2 a.m.; the service was similar in format to competitor <a href="/wiki/ONTV_(pay_TV)" class="mw-redirect" title="ONTV (pay TV)">ONTV</a> (which was carried locally on <a href="/wiki/WSNS-TV" title="WSNS-TV">WSNS-TV</a>, channel 44 (now a <a href="/wiki/Telemundo" title="Telemundo">Telemundo</a> owned and operated station)) and other over-the-air pay services that existed during the early and mid-1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tele1st was created with the concept of allowing users to record programming for later viewing; therefore, its decoder boxes were designed to unencrypt the signal only with the aid of a <a href="/wiki/VCR" class="mw-redirect" title="VCR">VCR</a>. Scrambling codes that were sent to the box and relayed to the VCR were changed on a monthly basis, requiring subscribers to record additional footage airing immediately before and after that night's schedule to retrieve codes to play back the recorded programs properly; this resulted in any recordings being viewable only during that calendar month. Tele1st was deemed a failure, attributing only 4,000 subscribers at its peak, and ceased operations on June 30, 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1988, WLS-TV agreed to sell production rights to <i>The Oprah Winfrey Show</i> to her <a href="/wiki/Harpo_Productions" title="Harpo Productions">Harpo Productions</a> company, but ABC O&Os continued to air the show until the end of its run in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Programming">Programming</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Programming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WLS-TV currently airs the <i><a href="/wiki/Weekend_Adventure" title="Weekend Adventure">Weekend Adventure</a></i> <a href="/wiki/E/I" class="mw-redirect" title="E/I">educational programming</a> block and the network's <a href="/wiki/Sunday_morning_talk_show" title="Sunday morning talk show">political/news discussion program</a> <i><a href="/wiki/This_Week_(American_TV_program)" title="This Week (American TV program)">This Week</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Broadcast_delay" title="Broadcast delay">one hour later</a> than most ABC stations due to its weekend morning newscasts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Network_programs_time-shifted">Network programs time-shifted</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Network programs time-shifted"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>From that program's debut in January 2003, WLS-TV aired <i><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel_Live!" title="Jimmy Kimmel Live!">Jimmy Kimmel Live!</a></i> on a one-hour delay at 12:02 a.m. as the station aired <a href="/wiki/Rerun" title="Rerun">reruns</a> of <i>The Oprah Winfrey Show</i> at 11:02 p.m. after <i><a href="/wiki/Nightline" title="Nightline">Nightline</a></i> (this practice ended after <i>Oprah</i>—by then in reruns, as the daytime talk show aired its last episode that May—discontinued its syndication run on September 9, 2011; <i>Kimmel</i> was subsequently moved to 11:02 p.m. three days later on September 12).</li> <li>For many years, WLS-TV was the only ABC owned-and-operated station that did not carry <i><a href="/wiki/Live_with_Kelly_and_Mark" title="Live with Kelly and Mark">Live with Kelly and Mark</a></i> in its various incarnations.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Live</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s traditional 9 a.m. timeslot was occupied on Channel 7 by <i>Oprah</i> prior to the former program's national debut in September 1986 until May 2011, and later by <i><a href="/wiki/Windy_City_Live" title="Windy City Live">Windy City Live</a></i> from May 2011 to September 2013; the program—which is produced by <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> sister station <a href="/wiki/WABC-TV" title="WABC-TV">WABC-TV</a>—had, however, occasionally aired in an overnight timeslot on WLS from 1991 to 1993 and again from 1999 to 2002. Other Chicago stations that aired <i>Live</i> in a daytime slot included WFLD (1990–1991 and 1997–1999), WBBM-TV (1993–1995) and WGN-TV (1995–1997 and 2002–2013).<sup id="cite_ref-timeout-2012_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeout-2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 2, 2013, <i>Live with Kelly and Mark</i> (at the time was named <i>Live with Kelly and Michael</i>) moved to WLS-TV (from WGN-TV), with <i>Windy City Live</i> being bumped to 11 a.m. as a result.<sup id="cite_ref-timeout-2012_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeout-2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bizjournals.com_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bizjournals.com-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>From its premiere in September 2019 until September 2021, WLS-TV was the only ABC-owned station not to carry <i><a href="/wiki/Tamron_Hall_(talk_show)" title="Tamron Hall (talk show)">Tamron Hall</a></i>, due to a lack of a viable timeslot in its daytime schedule. <a href="/wiki/Independent_station" title="Independent station">independent station</a> <a href="/wiki/WCIU-TV" title="WCIU-TV">WCIU-TV</a> (channel 26) carried it for its first two seasons, with the show moving to WLS-TV in the third season after the end of <i>Windy City Live</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_WLS-TV_produced_programs">Other WLS-TV produced programs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Other WLS-TV produced programs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>190 North</i> – a local lifestyle program (named after the station's studio address at 190 North State Street in the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Loop" title="Chicago Loop">Loop</a>) formerly hosted by Janet Davies; the show began broadcasting in 1998 and then in high-definition on May 6, 2007. The show ran on Sundays at 11 p.m., with a rebroadcast on Saturday nights from 1998 to 2013. It returned later in 2013 in a retooled format, only airing a few times a year.</li> <li><i>Let's Dish</i> – a food-based travel program produced by WLS-TV for the <a href="/wiki/Live_Well_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Live Well Network">Live Well Network</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and shown locally on digital channel 7.2.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Windy City Weekend</i> – a weekly lifestyle program that formerly served as a weekday afternoon talk show with a live audience known as <i>Windy City Live</i>, hosted by <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Chiaverini" title="Ryan Chiaverini">Ryan Chiaverini</a> and Valerie Warner that premiered as a daily program on May 26, 2011, replacing <i>The Oprah Winfrey Show</i>. Initially airing weekdays at 9 a.m., the live telecast moved to 11 a.m. on September 2, 2013,<sup id="cite_ref-bizjournals.com_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bizjournals.com-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at 1 p.m. on June 27, 2016, with reruns airing at 2 p.m. (on <a href="/wiki/Digital_subchannel" title="Digital subchannel">digital subchannel</a> 7.2) and at 12:07 a.m. (after ABC's <i>Nightline</i>). The show ended after 10 years as a daily program on September 3, 2021; it later recast as a weekly program, known as <i>Windy City Weekend</i> on September 10, 2021, and it airs Fridays at 11:30 a.m.<sup id="cite_ref-rf-WCL_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rf-WCL-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Since 1991, the station has broadcast a local <a href="/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve" title="New Year's Eve">New Year's Eve</a> special known as <i>Countdown Chicago</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_WLS-TV_produced_programs">Former WLS-TV produced programs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Former WLS-TV produced programs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Chicago Huddle</i> – a local sports program about the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a> hosted by Ryan Chiaverini.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The program aired Sundays 10:30 a.m. during the <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> season until during the 2009-10 Bears season.</li> <li><i>Chicagoing</i> – a local <a href="/wiki/Public_affairs_(broadcasting)" title="Public affairs (broadcasting)">public affairs</a> program hosted by Bill Campbell. Aired on Sunday mornings at 11:30 a.m., the program ran its final broadcast on December 26, 2010.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_syndicated_programming_produced_in_Chicago">Former syndicated programming produced in Chicago</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Former syndicated programming produced in Chicago"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/At_the_Movies_(1986_TV_program)" title="At the Movies (1986 TV program)">At the Movies</a></i> – nationally syndicated <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> <a href="/wiki/Review" title="Review">review</a> program, produced at WLS-TV's studios, and distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. It aired Saturdays 10:35 p.m. with reruns Sundays 10:30 a.m. The program aired its final original broadcast on August 14, 2010.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Oprah_Winfrey_Show" title="The Oprah Winfrey Show">The Oprah Winfrey Show</a></i> – previously a local program <i>A.M. Chicago</i>, it received the name about one year after <a href="/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey" title="Oprah Winfrey">Oprah Winfrey</a> began hosting. The program was created by WLS-TV, but was later produced by <a href="/wiki/Harpo_Productions" title="Harpo Productions">Harpo Productions</a> and <a href="/wiki/CBS_Television_Distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="CBS Television Distribution">CBS Television Distribution</a> at Oprah's Harpo Studios. It aired weekdays at 9 a.m., in both its local and syndicated incarnations. The program ended with its final original broadcast airing on May 25, 2011. Reruns continued weeknights at 11:02 p.m. until September 9, 2011.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports_programming">Sports programming</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Sports programming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WLS-TV is the local over-the-air host of <i><a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday Night Football</a></i> games involving the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a>, airing simulcasts of the team's <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>-televised games (WLS-TV's corporate parent, <a href="/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">The Walt Disney Company</a>, owns 80% of ESPN, and the ABC Owned Television Stations have <a href="/wiki/Right_of_first_refusal" title="Right of first refusal">right of first refusal</a> for simulcasts of ESPN's <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> telecasts within a team's home market). Because of this, atypical for a network-owned station outside of <a href="/wiki/Breaking_news" title="Breaking news">breaking news</a> and severe weather coverage necessitating such situations, the station has had to reschedule ABC network programs preempted by the telecasts. The preseason and <i>MNF</i> telecasts mark the only NFL games to have aired on WLS-TV since ABC lost the rights to NFL games in 2006; during the regular season, Bears games are rotated between WBBM-TV (through the <i><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_CBS" title="NFL on CBS">NFL on CBS</a></i>), <a href="/wiki/WMAQ-TV" title="WMAQ-TV">WMAQ-TV</a> (through <i><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football" title="NBC Sunday Night Football">NBC Sunday Night Football</a></i>) and especially WFLD (through the <i><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Fox" title="NFL on Fox">NFL on Fox</a></i>). Since 2010, however, it has deferred the right of first refusal due to the popularity and live voting requirements of ABC's <i><a href="/wiki/Dancing_with_the_Stars_(American_TV_series)" title="Dancing with the Stars (American TV series)">Dancing with the Stars</a></i>, with WCIU-TV carrying the <i>MNF</i> games when the former program's fall season is ongoing (an exception being WLS' carriage of an <i>MNF</i> Bears game against the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> on December 9, 2013, when the team honored former head coach <a href="/wiki/Mike_Ditka" title="Mike Ditka">Mike Ditka</a>, after <a href="/wiki/Dancing_with_the_Stars_(American_season_17)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dancing with the Stars (American season 17)">the <i>DWTS</i> fall season had already ended</a>). </p><p>On December 12, 2014, WLS-TV signed a new five-year broadcast agreement with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a>, in which WLS televised 25 of the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> team's games per year, starting with the <a href="/wiki/2015_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="2015 Chicago Cubs season">2015 season</a>. The arrangement partially replaced one with WGN-TV (which had broadcast Cubs games since its inception in April 1948), which voluntarily pulled out of its existing broadcast deal with the team for the 2015 season and subsequently agreed to carry a reduced slate of 45 games. The WLS broadcasts were seen on <a href="/wiki/DirecTV" title="DirecTV">DirecTV</a>'s version of MLB Extra Innings, and the feed provided was the WLS signal seen in the Chicago market (unlike with the feeds of WGN broadcasts, where <a href="/wiki/Public_service_announcement" title="Public service announcement">public service announcements</a> were seen in place of local commercials and station promos). </p><p>As ABC has a <a href="/wiki/ESPN_on_ABC#Siphoning" title="ESPN on ABC">limited sports programming schedule</a> during the Major League Baseball season prior to September (when the MLB regular season and <a href="/wiki/College_football" title="College football">college football</a> season overlap), the station mainly carried the team's weekend daytime games in order to limit preemption of the network's prime time programming.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tribune-closingin_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tribune-closingin-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-trib-whitesoxwpwr_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trib-whitesoxwpwr-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The deal (along with all of the Cubs' broadcast television deals) ended after the 2019 season, when the team launched the cable-only <a href="/wiki/Marquee_Sports_Network" title="Marquee Sports Network">Marquee Sports Network</a> to carry their game telecasts. </p><p>WLS-TV also carries select <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Chicago Bulls</a> games as part of their <i><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ABC" title="NBA on ABC">NBA on ABC</a></i> telecasts. </p><p>From <a href="/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000_Chicago_Blackhawks_season" title="1999–2000 Chicago Blackhawks season">1999</a> to <a href="/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_Chicago_Blackhawks_season" title="2003–04 Chicago Blackhawks season">2004</a> and again since <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Chicago_Blackhawks_season" title="2021–22 Chicago Blackhawks season">2021</a>, WLS-TV carries select <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Blackhawks" title="Chicago Blackhawks">Chicago Blackhawks</a> games as part of their <i><a href="/wiki/NHL_on_ABC" title="NHL on ABC">NHL on ABC</a></i> telecasts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="News_operation">News operation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: News operation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WLS-TV broadcasts 41 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours, 5 minutes each weekday and <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac">5<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). WLS-TV also contracts with <a href="/wiki/IHeartMedia" title="IHeartMedia">iHeartMedia</a> to provide weather forecasts for their Chicago market stations, including <a href="/wiki/WLIT-FM" title="WLIT-FM">WLIT-FM</a> (93.9), <a href="/wiki/WCHI-FM" title="WCHI-FM">WCHI-FM</a> (95.5), <a href="/wiki/WVAZ" title="WVAZ">WVAZ</a> (102.7), <a href="/wiki/WKSC-FM" title="WKSC-FM">WKSC-FM</a> (103.5), and <a href="/wiki/WGCI-FM" title="WGCI-FM">WGCI-FM</a> (107.5). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="News_department_history">News department history</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: News department history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WLS_TV_Eyewitness_News_team_1972.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/WLS_TV_Eyewitness_News_team_1972.JPG/200px-WLS_TV_Eyewitness_News_team_1972.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/WLS_TV_Eyewitness_News_team_1972.JPG/300px-WLS_TV_Eyewitness_News_team_1972.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/WLS_TV_Eyewitness_News_team_1972.JPG/400px-WLS_TV_Eyewitness_News_team_1972.JPG 2x" data-file-width="612" data-file-height="539" /></a><figcaption>WLS-TV's main <i>Eyewitness News</i> team, 1972. Back, from left: anchor John Drury, anchor Joel Daly. Front, from left: weatherman John Coleman, anchor Fahey Flynn, sportscaster Bill Frink.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1969, WLS-TV adopted the <i><a href="/wiki/Eyewitness_News" title="Eyewitness News">Eyewitness News</a></i> format that the other ABC owned-and-operated stations began implementing in the late 1960s, after the news format was popularized when it originated at New York City flagship WABC-TV. Beginning in 1968, the station's main evening newscasts were co-anchored by <a href="/wiki/Fahey_Flynn" title="Fahey Flynn">Fahey Flynn</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Bowtie" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowtie">bowtie</a>-wearing broadcaster who had spent the previous 15 years at WBBM-TV; and <a href="/wiki/Joel_Daly" title="Joel Daly">Joel Daly</a>, who was hired away by WLS from <a href="/wiki/WJW-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WJW-TV">WJW-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a> in 1967. The duo served as the anchors of the station's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts until Flynn's death in August 1983. In 1970, the two were joined by <a href="/wiki/John_Drury_(television_anchor)" title="John Drury (television anchor)">John Drury</a>, who helmed the 5 p.m. newscast. By 1973, WLS' <i>Eyewitness News</i> broadcasts surpassed <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>-owned WMAQ-TV (channel 5)'s newscasts to become Chicago's top-rated news operation, a lead it held until WBBM-TV surpassed channel 7 for the top spot in 1979. For much of the 1970s and 1980s, it waged a spirited battle for second place in the Chicago news ratings between its two main competitors. </p><p>Around the time of Flynn's death, Channel 7 had been experiencing a ratings decline, prompting major changes to the station's management. ABC hired Bill Applegate from WNEV-TV in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> (now <a href="/wiki/WHDH_(TV)" title="WHDH (TV)">WHDH</a>) as the station's news director. Shortly after, general manager Peter Desnoes resigned to co-found Burnham Broadcasting.<sup id="cite_ref-Chic830720_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chic830720-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His replacement was Chicago native <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Swanson" title="Dennis Swanson">Dennis Swanson</a>, who worked for WGN-TV and WMAQ-TV before becoming news director at ABC's Los Angeles station, <a href="/wiki/KABC-TV" title="KABC-TV">KABC-TV</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chic830720_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chic830720-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sout830731_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sout830731-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ABC also commissioned <a href="/wiki/Frank_Gari" title="Frank Gari">Frank Gari</a> to compose an updated version of the <i><a href="/wiki/Cool_Hand_Luke" title="Cool Hand Luke">Cool Hand Luke</a></i> "Tar Sequence" theme widely associated with the <i>Eyewitness News</i> format. The result was "News Series 2000", a theme package that was quickly picked up by other ABC O&Os and affiliates. </p><p>Upon his return to Chicago, Swanson would be tasked with finding a replacement for Flynn on the 6 p.m. news, as well as a new host for its <i>AM Chicago</i> program after host <a href="/wiki/Robb_Weller" title="Robb Weller">Robb Weller</a> departed for <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chic830816_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chic830816-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He responded to the latter by bringing in <a href="/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey" title="Oprah Winfrey">Oprah Winfrey</a>, at the time the host of <i>People Are Talking</i> on ABC's then-affiliate in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, <a href="/wiki/WJZ-TV" title="WJZ-TV">WJZ-TV</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chic831202a_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chic831202a-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Within a year, the program had moved to first place in the ratings. <i>AM Chicago</i> entered into national syndication in 1986 and was renamed <i>The Oprah Winfrey Show</i>. Channel 7 was the <a href="/wiki/Flagship_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Flagship station">flagship station</a> for the show, and it, along with most of ABC's other owned-and-operated stations, carried it until it went out of production in September 2011. Swanson also re-hired lead anchor John Drury, who had left for WGN-TV in 1979; and <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Kalber" title="Floyd Kalber">Floyd Kalber</a>, who had led WMAQ-TV to the top of the ratings in the 1960s. Drury and <a href="/wiki/Mary_Ann_Childers" title="Mary Ann Childers">Mary Ann Childers</a> were a popular anchor team at WLS-TV during the 1980s and 1990s, accompanied by weather anchor Steve Deshler and sports anchor <a href="/wiki/Tim_Weigel" title="Tim Weigel">Tim Weigel</a>. In March 1986, channel 7 passed WBBM-TV as the highest-rated news station in Chicago. It has held the lead ever since, aside from a brief period when WBBM-TV forged a tie for first in the late 1980s. </p><p>In 1992, the station replaced the "News Series 2000" package (as the other ABC O&Os did over the following year, due partly to increased royalties for use of the <i>Cool Hand Luke</i> theme and its variants by the original theme's composer, <a href="/wiki/Lalo_Schifrin" title="Lalo Schifrin">Lalo Schifrin</a>) with a new news music package, also produced by Gari, called "News Series 2000 Plus" (since renamed "Stimulus"), which has remained in use by WLS ever since and was updated in 2013. In 1996, WLS-TV dropped the <i>Eyewitness News</i> brand after 26 years, in favor of the network-centric <i>ABC 7 News</i>; the move was part of a standard branding effort imposed by ABC across its owned-and-operated stations which saw the incorporation of the ABC name into their local brands<sup id="cite_ref-rf-ewn_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rf-ewn-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (most of the other ABC O&Os retained their existing news branding, as sister stations such as WABC-TV and <a href="/wiki/WPVI-TV" title="WPVI-TV">WPVI-TV</a> in Philadelphia retained their <i>Eyewitness News</i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Action_News" title="Action News">Action News</a></i> identities). </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WLS-TV_WMVP_Studios_%26_Gene_Siskel_Film_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/WLS-TV_WMVP_Studios_%26_Gene_Siskel_Film_Center.jpg/250px-WLS-TV_WMVP_Studios_%26_Gene_Siskel_Film_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/WLS-TV_WMVP_Studios_%26_Gene_Siskel_Film_Center.jpg/500px-WLS-TV_WMVP_Studios_%26_Gene_Siskel_Film_Center.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>WLS-TV's street-side studios at 190 N. <a href="/wiki/State_Street_(Chicago)" title="State Street (Chicago)">State Street</a> during a 6 p.m. newscast closed to public viewing; sister radio station <a href="/wiki/WMVP" title="WMVP">WMVP</a> also maintains a streetside studio directly north in the same building.</figcaption></figure> <p>WLS-TV debuted a street-side studio at its North State Street facility on April 10, 2006, during the station's morning newscast, although the station had begun broadcasting its newscasts from that studio two days earlier on April 8.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the weekend of April 29–30, 2006, WLS-TV upgraded its news helicopter with a <a href="/wiki/High-definition_television" title="High-definition television">high definition</a> camera, rebranding it as "Chopper 7 HD". On January 6, 2007, WLS-TV became the first Chicago television station to broadcast all of its local programming—including newscasts—in high definition, although most remote field footage remained in <a href="/wiki/16:9" class="mw-redirect" title="16:9">16:9</a> <a href="/wiki/Widescreen" title="Widescreen">widescreen</a> standard definition at the time. Since then, WLS-TV upgraded most of its field footage to HD, although some field reports remain in widescreen SD.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (February 2022)">as of?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On December 23, 2007, a <a href="/wiki/Mazda_MPV" title="Mazda MPV">Mazda MPV</a> <a href="/wiki/Minivan" title="Minivan">minivan</a> drove through a reinforced studio window at the State Street Studio two minutes into the 10 p.m. newscast, startling anchor Ravi Baichwal on air and creating a 20-degree draft as the glass shattered upon the car's impact; no one was injured in the crash. <a href="/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois" title="Evanston, Illinois">Evanston</a> resident Gerald Richardson was subsequently charged with felony damage to property for the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 11, 2012, WLS-TV expanded its Sunday 8 a.m. newscast from <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027" /><span class="frac">1<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> to two hours, leading into ABC's <i>This Week</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 8 a.m. portion of the Saturday morning newscast was expanded to two hours from 8 to 10 a.m. on August 24, 2013. Nearly a week later on August 30, WLS-TV discontinued its hour-long weekday 11 a.m. newscast (which originated in 1992 as a half-hour program at 11:30, before it expanded into an earlier, one-hour broadcast on October 6, 2003, following the cancellation of <i><a href="/wiki/Port_Charles" title="Port Charles">Port Charles</a></i>) after 21 years, and replaced it on September 2 with <i>Windy City Live</i>, whose original 9 a.m. slot became occupied by <i>Live! with Kelly and Michael</i> when it moved to WLS from WGN-TV on that date (as such, it became the first – and currently, the only – ABC owned-and-operated station without a midday newscast). With the move and the midday newscast's cancellation, news and weather cut-ins were incorporated into <i>Windy City Live</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-windycitylivemoves_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-windycitylivemoves-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 26, 2013, WLS-TV reintroduced the <i>Eyewitness News</i> brand (as <i>ABC 7 Eyewitness News</i>), as part of an overall rebranding of its newscasts that included new graphics and a modernized update to the "Stimulus" theme. In an interview with media columnist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Feder" title="Robert Feder">Robert Feder</a>, WLS-TV president/general manager John Idler said the reasoning behind the restoration of the <i>Eyewitness News</i> brand, was that it "[still] resonated strongly with [viewers in] the Chicago market", despite being dropped by the station 17 years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-rf-ewn_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rf-ewn-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 2, 2013, WLS expanded the early block of its weekend morning newscasts, with the extension of its hour-long 6 a.m. newscast on Saturdays and Sundays to two hours at 5 a.m.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On February 10, 2014, WLS-TV entered into a partnership agreement with the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times" title="Chicago Sun-Times">Chicago Sun-Times</a></i> to include the use of the station's weather team in the newspaper's weather section, replacing WMAQ-TV, whose previous partnership ended the day before; in addition, the station would air a 'look ahead' of the newspaper's front page and stories, with the <i>Sun-Times</i> promoting WLS's newscasts and programming in turn. </p><p>On December 14, 2014, WLS-TV entered into a news share agreement with <a href="/wiki/WCIU-TV" title="WCIU-TV">WCIU-TV</a> to produce a weeknight-only 7 p.m. newscast titled <i>ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 7:00 on The U</i>; the program debuted on January 12, 2015, and is the fifth newscast produced by ABC O&O for a separately owned station in the station's home market (along with existing programs produced by sister stations in <a href="/wiki/Raleigh" class="mw-redirect" title="Raleigh">Raleigh</a>, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles for <a href="/wiki/WLFL" title="WLFL">WLFL</a>, <a href="/wiki/WPHL-TV" title="WPHL-TV">WPHL-TV</a>, <a href="/wiki/KOFY-TV" title="KOFY-TV">KOFY-TV</a> and <a href="/wiki/KDOC-TV" title="KDOC-TV">KDOC-TV</a> in the respective markets, and a since-canceled newscast produced by KFSN-TV for <a href="/wiki/KAIL" title="KAIL">KAIL</a> in Fresno).<sup id="cite_ref-trib-wlswciu_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trib-wlswciu-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 27, 2016, WLS-TV revived its 11 a.m. newscasts for the first time since 2013, becoming the fourth television station in Chicago to do so; which completes against WMAQ-TV (who revived its midday newscasts in September 2011 and moved to the time period in September 2014), WBBM-TV (who began airing a half-hour 11 a.m. newscasts in early 2000s), and WGN-TV (who began its midday newscasts in 1984; followed by some expansions in September 2008 and October 2009). In June 2016, after several years of unsuccessful syndicated talk show replacements for the canceled <i><a href="/wiki/All_My_Children" title="All My Children">All My Children</a></i> (including <i><a href="/wiki/Katie_(talk_show)" title="Katie (talk show)">Katie</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/FABLife" title="FABLife">FABLife</a></i>), the station moved <i><a href="/wiki/General_Hospital" title="General Hospital">General Hospital</a></i> to 2 p.m., then <i>Windy City Live</i> to 1 p.m. to accommodate the 11 a.m. newscast, with a replay of the latter late night after <i><a href="/wiki/Nightline" title="Nightline">Nightline</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-rf-WCL_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rf-WCL-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 29, 2019, It was announced that WLS-TV would end its news share agreement with WCIU-TV, ending the weeknight program for that station, the 7 p.m. newscast <i>ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 7:00 on The U</i> after 4 years, with the final broadcast on August 30 of that same year. The mutual parting of ways came as WCIU became the market's <a href="/wiki/The_CW" title="The CW">CW</a> affiliate on September 1, leaving no room for a newscast on the station's schedule.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 19, 2023, WLS-TV debuted its new on-air look for the first time in a decade as it was the first ABC owned-and-operated station to unveil its new standard graphics package. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ratings">Ratings</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Ratings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the Nielsen local news ratings for the February 2011 sweeps period, WLS-TV remained in first place overall, with the 10 p.m. newscast getting a 9.7 rating share, down a tenth of a point from a 9.8 during the same time the previous year.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The station remained in second place for its prime time lead-in.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (February 2017)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="On-air_staff">On-air staff</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: On-air staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Burton" title="Cheryl Burton">Cheryl Burton</a> – anchor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryan_Chiaverini" title="Ryan Chiaverini">Ryan Chiaverini</a> – <i>Windy City Weekend</i> host; also host of <i>Countdown Chicago</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Goudie" title="Chuck Goudie">Chuck Goudie</a> – chief investigative reporter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Pathieu" title="Diane Pathieu">Diane Pathieu</a> – reporter and fill-in anchor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Schanowski" title="Mark Schanowski">Mark Schanowski</a> – freelance sports anchor (also with <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports_Chicago" title="NBC Sports Chicago">NBC Sports Chicago</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Waddle" title="Tom Waddle">Tom Waddle</a> – NFL contributor</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Former_on-air_staff">Former on-air staff</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Former on-air staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Adamle" title="Mike Adamle">Mike Adamle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Allen" title="Diane Allen">Diane Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Avila" title="Jim Avila">Jim Avila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Baskin" title="Roberta Baskin">Roberta Baskin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathy_Brock" title="Kathy Brock">Kathy Brock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diann_Burns" title="Diann Burns">Diann Burns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jann_Carl" title="Jann Carl">Jann Carl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Carlson" title="Susan Carlson">Susan Carlson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Ann_Childers" title="Mary Ann Childers">Mary Ann Childers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Cohn" title="Lauren Cohn">Lauren Cohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Coleman_(weatherman)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Coleman (weatherman)">John Coleman</a><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Rafer_Weigel" title="Rafer Weigel">Rafer Weigel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Weigel" title="Tim Weigel">Tim Weigel</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562" /><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_†"><sup>†</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robb_Weller" title="Robb Weller">Robb Weller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey" title="Oprah Winfrey">Oprah Winfrey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Yu" title="Linda Yu">Linda Yu</a></li></ul> </div> <dl><dd><sup><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562" /><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_†"><b><a href="#ref_†">^[†]</a></b></span> </sup> Indicates deceased</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Studios">Studios</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Studios"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WLS-TV's studios at 190 North State Street include the former State-Lake Theatre's gutted and converted interior.<sup id="cite_ref-cinematreasures/348_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cinematreasures/348-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in 1959, <i><a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s first television show, <i><a href="/wiki/Playboy%27s_Penthouse" title="Playboy's Penthouse">Playboy's Penthouse</a></i>, filmed for two years at 190 North State Street.<sup id="cite_ref-chicagotribune/hefners-chicago-040516_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chicagotribune/hefners-chicago-040516-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technical_information">Technical information</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Technical information"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subchannels">Subchannels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Subchannels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Subchannels of WLS-TV and WXFT-DT<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">License </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Digital_subchannel#United_States" title="Digital subchannel">Channel</a> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Display_resolution" title="Display resolution">Res.</a> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)" title="Aspect ratio (image)">Aspect</a> </th> <th scope="col">Short name </th> <th scope="col">Programming </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3" scope="row" style="border-right: 4px solid #60B0FF;">WLS-TV </th> <th scope="row">7.1 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/720p" title="720p">720p</a></td> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/16:9" class="mw-redirect" title="16:9">16:9</a></td> <td>WLS-HD</td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">7.2 </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/480i" title="480i">480i</a></td> <td>LOCLish</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Localish" title="Localish">Localish</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">7.3 </th> <td>CHARGE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charge!_(TV_network)" title="Charge! (TV network)">Charge!</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3" scope="row" style="border-right: 4px solid #0057AF;">WXFT-DT </th> <th scope="row">60.1 </th> <td>720p</td> <td>WXFT-DT</td> <td><a href="/wiki/UniM%C3%A1s" title="UniMás">UniMás</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">60.2 </th> <td rowspan="2">480i</td> <td>ESCAPE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ion_Mystery" title="Ion Mystery">Ion Mystery</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">60.3 </th> <td>Quest</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Quest_(American_TV_network)" title="Quest (American TV network)">Quest</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Prior to February 24, 2011, WLS-DT3 carried <i>ABC 7 News NOW</i>, featuring local news and weather and national/sidebar content from <a href="/wiki/The_Local_AccuWeather_Channel" class="mw-redirect" title="The Local AccuWeather Channel">The Local AccuWeather Channel</a>. The ABC O&Os discontinued their Local AccuWeather channels on February 24, 2011, replacing its programming with a letterboxed <a href="/wiki/Standard-definition" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard-definition">standard-definition</a> <a href="/wiki/Simulcast" title="Simulcast">simulcast</a> of their Live Well subchannels, though <a href="/wiki/AccuWeather" title="AccuWeather">AccuWeather</a>'s content/branding agreement with ABCOTS, including WLS-TV, continued unchanged. WLS-DT3 formerly served as a charter affiliate of <a href="/wiki/Laff_(TV_network)" title="Laff (TV network)">Laff</a> diginet from its launch in January 2015. To accommodate the WXFT channel share which took effect in December 2017, WLS-TV discontinued the third Laff subchannel, which shifted over to a subchannel of WXFT's sister station, <a href="/wiki/WGBO-DT" title="WGBO-DT">WGBO-DT</a>2, and reduced the Live Well feed from a reduced-bitrate <a href="/wiki/720p" title="720p">720p</a> broadcast to a <a href="/wiki/480i" title="480i">480i</a> format. After WLS moved to their new channel post-spectrum transition, it soon picked up This TV after ABCOTS picked up the network for their stations in the spring of 2021. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Analog-to-digital_conversion">Analog-to-digital conversion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Analog-to-digital conversion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WLS-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, at noon on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States <a href="/wiki/Digital_television_transition_in_the_United_States" title="Digital television transition in the United States">transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts</a> under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition <a href="/wiki/UHF" class="mw-redirect" title="UHF">UHF</a> channel 52, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcast use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 7.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>WLS operated its digital signal at low power (4.75 <a href="/wiki/KW" class="mw-redirect" title="KW">kW</a>) to protect the digital signal of NBC affiliate <a href="/wiki/WOOD-TV" title="WOOD-TV">WOOD-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Grand_Rapids,_Michigan" title="Grand Rapids, Michigan">Grand Rapids, Michigan</a> (which also broadcasts on channel 7, but at a much higher radiated power). As a result, many viewers were not able to receive the station.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The FCC sent extra personnel to Chicago, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> to deal with difficulties in those cities. WLS had received 1,735 calls just by the end of the day on June 12 (WBBM only received 600), and an estimated 5,000 calls in total by June 16. </p><p>WLS-TV was just one station which needed to increase its signal strength or move its frequency to solve its problems, but a power increase required making sure no other stations were affected.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WLS received a two-week experimental permit for a power increase late in June.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WLS had also applied for a permit to construct a low-power fill-in digital translator station on UHF channel 32 (the former analog frequency of <a href="/wiki/WFLD" title="WFLD">WFLD</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but abandoned that plan (the channel 32 RF frequency has since been claimed by <a href="/wiki/WMEU-CD" title="WMEU-CD">WMEU-CD</a>). Eventually the FCC granted it a permit to transmit on a second frequency, UHF channel 44,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> formerly occupied by WSNS-TV; WLS announced the availability of that frequency on October 31, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Throughout construction of the new maximized transmitting facilities at the Willis Tower, WLS operated both channels 7 and 44 from its auxiliary facilities at the <a href="/wiki/John_Hancock_Center" title="John Hancock Center">John Hancock Center</a> under an <a href="/wiki/Special_Temporary_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Temporary Authority">STA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WLS operated channel 7 as a fill-in translator with a power of 7 kW,<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and operating their full power operations on channel 44 with a power of <a href="/wiki/Megawatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Megawatt">1 MW</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through the use of <a href="/wiki/Virtual_channel" title="Virtual channel">virtual channel</a> technology, both operating frequencies were re-mapped and displayed as channel 7, which would cause some digital tuners to have two versions of virtual channels 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3, while tuning sequentially. In October 2012, WLS-TV completed construction from the Willis Tower and its operating channel 44 at the 1 million watt power level.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The station continued its dual-frequency operations until 12:03 p.m. on March 18, 2013, when WLS-TV formally ceased operations on VHF channel 7, leaving UHF channel 44 as its permanent allotment.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since WLS-TV officially moved its full-power operations to channel 44, it is the only ABC-owned station to vacate its former analog allotment for its digital operations and the second ABC O&O to operate its full-power operations on the UHF band, after <a href="/wiki/Fresno" class="mw-redirect" title="Fresno">Fresno</a> sister station <a href="/wiki/KFSN-TV" title="KFSN-TV">KFSN-TV</a> (which was forced onto UHF in 1961 when it was a CBS affiliate, as the FCC preferred Fresno to be a "UHF island"). </p><p>On June 12, 2017, WLS-TV's parent company <a href="/wiki/ABC_Owned_Television_Stations" title="ABC Owned Television Stations">ABC Owned Television Stations</a> and <a href="/wiki/Univision_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Univision Communications">Univision Communications</a> announced they would enter into a channel sharing agreement following the sale of the over-the-air spectrum of <a href="/wiki/UniM%C3%A1s" title="UniMás">UniMás</a> owned-and-operated station <a href="/wiki/WXFT-DT" title="WXFT-DT">WXFT-DT</a> in the FCC's <a href="/wiki/Spectrum_reallocation" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectrum reallocation">spectrum reallocation</a> auction for $126.1 million on April 13, 2017; as mentioned above, the transition of WXFT to the WLS-TV spectrum occurred eight months later. During the 2019 digital television repack, the station relocated from UHF channel 44 as it was no longer allocated to broadcast television and is now broadcasting on UHF channel 22. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WLS_(AM)" title="WLS (AM)">WLS (AM)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circle_7_logo" title="Circle 7 logo">Circle 7 logo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eyewitness_News" title="Eyewitness News">Eyewitness News</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WLS-TV&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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href="https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityTechDetails.html?facilityId=73226">"Facility Technical Data for WLS-TV"</a>. <i>Licensing and Management System</i>. <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Licensing+and+Management+System&rft.atitle=Facility+Technical+Data+for+WLS-TV&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fenterpriseefiling.fcc.gov%2Fdataentry%2Fpublic%2Ftv%2FpublicFacilityTechDetails.html%3FfacilityId%3D73226&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWLS-TV" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" 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title="WMEU-CD">.2</a> <a href="/wiki/Independent_station" title="Independent station">The U Too</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WWME-CD" title="WWME-CD">.3</a> <a href="/wiki/MeTV" title="MeTV">MeTV</a></li> <li>.4 <a href="/wiki/Heroes_%26_Icons" title="Heroes & Icons">H&I</a></li> <li>.5 <a href="/wiki/Story_Television" title="Story Television">Story</a></li> <li>.6 <a href="/wiki/Catchy_Comedy" title="Catchy Comedy">Catchy</a></li> <li>.7 <a href="/wiki/MeTV_Toons" title="MeTV Toons">MeToons</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WFLD" title="WFLD">WFLD</a> 32 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a></li> <li>.2 <a href="/wiki/Movies!" title="Movies!">Movies!</a></li> <li>.3 <a href="/wiki/Buzzr" title="Buzzr">Buzzr</a></li> <li>.4 <a href="/wiki/TBD_(TV_network)" title="TBD (TV network)">TBD</a></li> <li>.5 <a href="/wiki/Fox_Weather" title="Fox Weather">Fox WX</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WWTO-TV" title="WWTO-TV">WWTO-TV</a> 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title="Korean language">Korean</a>)</li> <li>.3 <a href="/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television" title="New Tang Dynasty Television">NTD</a></li> <li>.4 <a href="/wiki/China_Central_Television" title="China Central Television">CCTV Documentary</a></li> <li>.5 <a href="/wiki/China_Central_Television" title="China Central Television">CCTV News</a></li> <li>.6 <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart#Television" title="Jimmy Swaggart">SonLife</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WRJK-LD" title="WRJK-LD">WRJK-LD</a> 22 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Diya_TV" title="Diya TV">Diya</a></li> <li>.3 <a href="/wiki/Novelisima" class="mw-redirect" title="Novelisima">Novelisima</a></li> <li>.4 <a href="/wiki/First_Nations_Experience" title="First Nations Experience">FNX</a></li> <li>.5 <a href="/wiki/Ace_TV" title="Ace TV">Ace</a></li> <li>.6 <a href="/wiki/AWE_(TV_network)" title="AWE (TV network)">AWE</a></li> <li>.7 <a href="/wiki/OAN_Plus" class="mw-redirect" title="OAN Plus">OAN+</a></li> <li>.8 <a href="/wiki/WISH-TV" title="WISH-TV">WISH-TV News</a></li> <li>.9 Fun Roads</li> <li>.11 <a href="/wiki/HSN" title="HSN">HSN</a></li> <li>.12 <a href="/wiki/QVC2" class="mw-redirect" title="QVC2">QVC2</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WWME-CD" title="WWME-CD">WWME-CD</a> 23 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/MeTV" title="MeTV">MeTV</a></li> <li>.2 <a href="/wiki/Heroes_%26_Icons" title="Heroes & Icons">H&I</a></li> <li>.12 <a href="/wiki/Infomercial" title="Infomercial">Ads</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WPVN-CD" title="WPVN-CD">WPVN-CD</a> 24 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Visi%C3%B3n_Latina" title="Visión Latina">VL</a></li> <li>.2 <a href="/wiki/BeIN_Sports_(American_TV_channel)" title="BeIN Sports (American TV channel)">beIN Xtra</a></li> <li>.3 <a href="/wiki/Independent_station" title="Independent station">Ind.</a></li> <li>.4 <a href="/wiki/Free_TV_Networks" title="Free TV Networks">365BLK</a></li> <li>.5 <a href="/wiki/Munhwa_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation">MBC</a> (Korean)</li> <li>.6 <a href="/wiki/Defy_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Defy TV">Defy</a></li> <li>.7 Timeless TV</li> <li>.8 <a href="/wiki/Outlaw_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Outlaw (TV network)">Outlaw</a></li> <li>.9 <a href="/wiki/Dan_Abrams#Law_&_Crime" title="Dan Abrams">L&C</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W31EZ-D" class="mw-redirect" title="W31EZ-D">W31EZ-D</a> 25 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Almavision" title="Almavision">Almavision</a></li> <li>.2 <a href="/wiki/Salem_Media_Group" title="Salem Media Group">Salem News</a></li> <li>.3 <a href="/wiki/Shop_LC" title="Shop LC">LC</a></li> <li>.4 <a href="/wiki/Defy_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Defy TV">Defy</a></li> <li>.5 <a href="/wiki/LATV" title="LATV">LATV</a></li></ul></li> <li>WAUR-LD 29 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/YTA_TV" title="YTA TV">YTA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WLPD-CD" title="WLPD-CD">WLPD-CD</a> 30 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/TBN_Inspire" title="TBN Inspire">Inspire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WWTO-TV" title="WWTO-TV">.2</a> <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Broadcasting_Network" title="Trinity Broadcasting Network">TBN</a></li></ul></li> <li>WSPY-LD 31 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/YTA_TV" title="YTA TV">YTA</a></li> <li>.2 <a href="/wiki/Dark_(broadcasting)" title="Dark (broadcasting)">[blank]</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WRME-LD" title="WRME-LD">WRME-LD</a> 33 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Jewelry_Television" title="Jewelry Television">JTV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Channel_6_radio_stations_in_the_United_States" title="Channel 6 radio stations in the United States">87.75 FM</a> analog <a href="/wiki/MeTV" title="MeTV">MeTV</a>-FM/<a href="/wiki/Oldies" title="Oldies">oldies</a> audio</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WEDE-CD" title="WEDE-CD">WEDE-CD</a> 34 <ul><li>.1/.3 MCTV/<a href="/wiki/Independent_station" title="Independent station">Ind.</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WESV-LD" class="mw-redirect" title="WESV-LD">WESV-LD</a> 40 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Estrella_TV" title="Estrella TV">Estrella</a></li> <li>.2 Nosey</li> <li>.3 Confess</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WMEU-CD" title="WMEU-CD">WMEU-CD</a> 48 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Independent_station" title="Independent station">The U Too</a></li> <li>.2 <a href="/wiki/Start_TV" title="Start TV">Start</a></li> <li>.3 <a href="/wiki/Catchy_Comedy" title="Catchy Comedy">Catchy</a></li> <li>.4 <a href="/wiki/MeTV#MeTV_Plus" title="MeTV">MeTV+</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WDCI-LD" class="mw-redirect" title="WDCI-LD">WDCI-LD</a> 57 / <a href="/wiki/WILC-CD" title="WILC-CD">WILC-CD</a> 8 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Daystar_Television_Network" title="Daystar Television Network">Daystar</a></li> <li>.2 DS Español</li> <li>.3 Reflections</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">ATSC 1.1 <a href="/wiki/MPEG-4" title="MPEG-4">MPEG-4</a><br />(converter required<br />for older sets)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WBBM-TV" title="WBBM-TV">WBBM-TV</a> 2 <ul><li>.4 <a href="/wiki/Fave_TV" title="Fave TV">Fave</a></li> <li>.5 <a href="/wiki/Comet_(TV_network)" title="Comet (TV network)">Comet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WMEU-CD" title="WMEU-CD">WMEU-CD</a> 48 <ul><li>.5 HEVCp</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WJYS" title="WJYS">WJYS</a> 62 <ul><li>.4 <a href="/wiki/Heartland_(TV_network)" title="Heartland (TV network)">Heartland</a></li> <li>.5 <a href="/wiki/QVC" title="QVC">QVC</a></li> <li>.6 Canal de la Fe</li> <li>.7 <a href="/wiki/Jewelry_Television" title="Jewelry Television">JTV</a></li> <li>.8/.9 <a href="/wiki/HSN" title="HSN">HSN</a></li> <li>.10 Polvision</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WGBO-DT" title="WGBO-DT">WGBO-DT</a> 66 <ul><li>.6 <a href="/wiki/Retro_TV" title="Retro TV">Retro</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/ATSC_standards#ATSC_3.0" title="ATSC standards">ATSC 3.0</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WBBM-TV" title="WBBM-TV">WBBM-TV</a> 2 <ul><li>2.1 <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WMAQ-TV" title="WMAQ-TV">5.1</a> <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WGN-TV" title="WGN-TV">9.1</a> <a href="/wiki/The_CW" title="The CW">CW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WFLD" title="WFLD">32.1</a> <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WGBO-DT" title="WGBO-DT">66.1</a> <a href="/wiki/Univision" title="Univision">UNI</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WRME-LD" title="WRME-LD">WRME-LD</a> 33 <ul><li>.1 <a href="/wiki/Jewelry_Television" title="Jewelry Television">JTV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Channel_6_radio_stations_in_the_United_States" title="Channel 6 radio stations in the United States">87.75 FM</a> analog <a href="/wiki/MeTV" title="MeTV">MeTV</a>-FM/<a href="/wiki/Oldies" title="Oldies">oldies</a> audio</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television">Cable</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bostel" title="Bostel">Bostel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Access_Network_Television" title="Chicago Access Network Television">CAN-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sports_Network" title="Chicago Sports Network">CHSN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marquee_Sports_Network" title="Marquee Sports Network">Marquee Sports Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Total_Living_Network" title="Total Living Network">TLN</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Streaming_media" title="Streaming media">Streaming</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CBS_News_24/7" title="CBS News 24/7">CBS News Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WMAQ-TV" title="WMAQ-TV">NBC 5 Chicago News</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">ABC 7 Chicago 24/7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WGN-TV" title="WGN-TV">WGN9+</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chicagoland_Television" title="Chicagoland Television">CLTV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_Sports_Net_Chicago" title="Fox Sports Net Chicago">FSN Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkvision" title="Hawkvision">Hawkvision</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/WQAD-TV" title="WQAD-TV">WQAD-TV 8</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Quad_Cities_TV" title="Template:Quad Cities TV">Moline/Davenport, IA</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WTVO" title="WTVO">WTVO 17</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Rockford_TV" title="Template:Rockford TV">Rockford</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WICS" title="WICS">WICS 20</a> / <a href="/wiki/WICD_(TV)" title="WICD (TV)">WICD 15</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:CDSTV" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:CDSTV">Springfield/Champaign</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WEEK-TV" title="WEEK-TV">WEEK-DT 25.2</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Central_IL_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Central IL TV">Peoria/Bloomington</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Secondary**</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WEHT" title="WEHT">WEHT 25</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Evansville_TV" title="Template:Evansville TV">Evansville, IN/Carmi</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/KDNL-TV" title="KDNL-TV">KDNL-TV 30</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:St_Louis_TV" title="Template:St Louis TV">St. Louis, MO/East St. Louis</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WAWV-TV" title="WAWV-TV">WAWV-TV 38</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:THTV" title="Template:THTV">Terre Haute, IN/Marshall</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WJJY-TV" title="WJJY-TV">WJJY 14</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:CDSTV" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:CDSTV">Jacksonville</a>–<a href="/wiki/Template:QHK_TV" title="Template:QHK TV">Quincy</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>(*) – indicates station is in one of Illinois' primary <a href="/wiki/Media_market#Television" title="Media market">TV markets</a><br />(**) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of Illinois<div class="hlist"> <dl><dt>See also</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:ABC_Illinois" title="Template:ABC Illinois">ABC</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:CBS_Illinois" title="Template:CBS Illinois">CBS</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:CW_Illinois" title="Template:CW Illinois">CW</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Fox_Illinois" title="Template:Fox Illinois">Fox</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:ION_Illinois" title="Template:ION Illinois">Ion</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:MNTV_Illinois" title="Template:MNTV Illinois">MyNetworkTV</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:NBC_Illinois" title="Template:NBC Illinois">NBC</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:PBS_Illinois" title="Template:PBS Illinois">PBS</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Other_Illinois_Stations" title="Template:Other Illinois Stations">Other stations in Illinois</a></dd></dl> 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TV">Indianapolis</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WPTA" title="WPTA">WPTA 21</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Fort_Wayne_TV" title="Template:Fort Wayne TV">Fort Wayne</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WEHT" title="WEHT">WEHT 25</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Evansville_TV" title="Template:Evansville TV">Evansville</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WPBY-LD" title="WPBY-LD">WPBY-LD 35</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Lafayette_IN_TV" title="Template:Lafayette IN TV">Lafayette</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WAWV-TV" title="WAWV-TV">WAWV-TV 38</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:THTV" title="Template:THTV">Terre Haute</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WBND-LD" title="WBND-LD">WBND-LD 57</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:South_Bend_TV" title="Template:South Bend TV">South Bend</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Secondary**</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">WLS-TV 7</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Chicago_TV" title="Template:Chicago TV">Chicago, IL/Gary</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WCPO-TV" title="WCPO-TV">WCPO-TV 9</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Cincy_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Cincy TV">Cincinnati, OH/Lawrenceburg</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WHAS-TV" title="WHAS-TV">WHAS-TV 11</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Louisville_TV" title="Template:Louisville TV">Louisville, KY/New Albany</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WKEF" title="WKEF">WKEF 22</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Dayton_TV" title="Template:Dayton TV">Dayton, OH/Richmond</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>(*) – indicates station is in one of Indiana's primary <a href="/wiki/Media_market#Television" title="Media market">TV markets</a><br />(**) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of Indiana<div class="hlist"> <dl><dt>See also</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:ABC_Indiana" 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title="WFOR-TV">WFOR-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WJZ-TV" title="WJZ-TV">WJZ-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WWJ-TV" title="WWJ-TV">WWJ-TV</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/KCPQ" title="KCPQ">KCPQ</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/KZJO" title="KZJO">KZJO-DT2</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KDFW" title="KDFW">KDFW</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/KDFI" title="KDFI">KDFI-DT4</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KMSP-TV" title="KMSP-TV">KMSP-TV</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WFTC#KMSP-TV/WFTC_subchannels" title="WFTC">WFTC-DT1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WFTC#KMSP-TV/WFTC_subchannels" title="WFTC">KFTC-DT1</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KRIV_(TV)" title="KRIV (TV)">KRIV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KSAZ-TV" title="KSAZ-TV">KSAZ-TV</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/KUTP#Technical_information" title="KUTP">KUTP</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTBC_(TV)" title="KTBC (TV)">KTBC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTTV" title="KTTV">KTTV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTVU" title="KTVU">KTVU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WAGA-TV" title="WAGA-TV">WAGA-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WFLD" title="WFLD">WFLD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WITI_(TV)" title="WITI (TV)">WITI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WJBK" title="WJBK">WJBK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WNYW" title="WNYW">WNYW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WOFL" title="WOFL">WOFL</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WOGX" title="WOGX">WOGX</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WTTG" title="WTTG">WTTG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WTVT" title="WTVT">WTVT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WTXF-TV" title="WTXF-TV">WTXF-TV</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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href="/wiki/KTMW" title="KTMW">KULX-CD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTMW" title="KTMW">KULU-LD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTMW" title="KTMW">KEJT-CD</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KUAN-LD" title="KUAN-LD">KUAN-LD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KVDA" title="KVDA">KVDA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KVEA" title="KVEA">KVEA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KXTX-TV" title="KXTX-TV">KXTX-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WKAQ-TV" title="WKAQ-TV">WKAQ-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WNEU" title="WNEU">WNEU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WNJU" title="WNJU">WNJU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WRDM-CD" title="WRDM-CD">WRDM-CD</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WRDM-CD" title="WRDM-CD">WDMR-LD</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WRIW-CD" title="WRIW-CD">WRIW-CD</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WYCN-LD" title="WYCN-LD">WYCN-LD</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WRMD-CD" title="WRMD-CD">WRMD-CD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WRTD-CD" title="WRTD-CD">WRTD-CD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WSCV" title="WSCV">WSCV</a> <ul><li><a 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