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WFLD
Chicago, Illinois
BrandingFox Chicago
Fox News Chicago
SloganThe Most Powerful Name in Local News
ChannelsAnalog: 32 (UHF)
Digital: 31 (UHF)
AffiliationsFox
OwnerFox Television Stations
FoundedJanuary 4, 1966
Call letters meaningW
FieLD Communications, the station's founding owner
Former affiliationsIndependent (1966-1986)
Transmitter Power5000 kW/418.4 m (analog)
200 kW/475 m (digital)
Websitewww.myfoxchicago.com


WFLD is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Chicago, Illinois. The station operates on channel 32, though it is identified on the air as simply "Fox Chicago." WFLD is co-owned with WPWR-TV (channel 50), Chicago's MyNetworkTV affiliate. WFLD's transmitter sits on top of the John Hancock Center.

WFLD is a typical Fox station airing over thirty-seven hours of news every week along with syndicated first run talk/court/reality shows, off-network sitcoms, Fox's primetime network programming, and sports.

History

The station began life on January 4, 1966, from its downtown Chicago studios. Its founding owner was Field Enterprises, which also owned the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News and was owned by heirs of the Marshall Field's department store chain. The station was christened the "Station of Tomorrow" by the Sun-Times in an April 1966 article because of its innovative technical developments in broadcasting its signal. It also broadcast news from the Sun-Times/Daily News newsroom.

Field Enterprises sold controlling interest in WFLD to Kaiser Broadcasting in 1972, and the two companies' new partnership would see WFLD joining Kaiser's stable of UHF independent stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit. In 1977, Kaiser ended the partnership by selling its share of the stations back to Field Enterprises.

From the late 1960s to the 1980s, WFLD carried a wide variety of syndicated series, movies, and local public affairs programming. To counter-program against its more established VHF rivals, channel 32 offered documentaries, adult dramas, westerns, and live sports, though for much of the time it trailed WGN-TV (channel 9) in the ratings among Chicago's independent stations until the late 1970s. When it won bids to air shows in syndication such as M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Happy Days, and others, the station finally beat WGN-TV in the ratings, and the two stations continued to go head-to-head throughout the 1980s.

In 1968, WFLD acquired broadcast rights to the Chicago White Sox baseball team from WGN-TV, carrying them initially until 1972, and again from 1982 to 1989. During the 1980s WFLD also aired games of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, until WGN-TV acquired broadcast rights to both teams in 1990 (Chicago-area attorney and real estate investor Jerry Reinsdorf owns both franchises). WFLD was also noteworthy as the longtime home of the local B-movie program Svengoolie. There were two versions of this show; the original began in 1971 as "Screming Yellow Theatre" with Jerry G. Bishop doing scary voices and later wearing a green wig and such. Bishop became such a hit with viewers that the show was popularly called "Svengoolie" after his character (although the name didn't change), and this version lasted until 1973. The second version began in 1979 with Rich Koz as "Son Of Svengoolie", and it ran until 1986. The show currently airs on WCIU-TV (channel 26).

In 1983, Field sold WFLD to Metromedia as part of a company-wide liquidation. At that time programming changed slightly but graphics were abruptly changed to reflect the new ownership. Metromedia's television stations, including WFLD, were sold to the News Corporation in 1986, and they formed the core of the new Fox Broadcasting Company.

Following the 1986 sale to the new Fox ownership, the station continued to compete aggressively in the market. Now known on-air as Fox 32, the station expanded its news presence as well. Fox's news presence began in 1987 with the premiere of the half-hour "Fox 32 News at 7" (touted as "the news that doesn't get home before you do") along with a half-hour 11PM newscast[1] which lasted until they consolidated both newscasts to compete with then-independent WGN's 9PM newscast. The newscast was moved back to 7PM by the fall of 1988,[2] and returned to 9PM by the fall of 1989,[3] in anticipation of Fox's expanding prime time schedule. The station started airing a morning newscast called Fox Thing in the Morning (now Fox News in the Morning) in place of the morning cartoon block.

The afternoon cartoon block, which became Fox Kids by 1992, continued on the station, as well as the top-rated off-network sitcoms in the evening. It also added more first-run talk shows and court shows. When Fox ended the weekday kids block in January of 2002, WFLD added more first-run reality and talk shows to the lineup.

In the mid-1990s, after several years of being known on the air as "Fox 32" (or even "Fox Thirty-Two"), the station rebranded itself as "Fox Chicago" due to the fact that many Chicagoans watch WFLD via cable (channel 12 or channel 3 on most area cable systems). Sometime after that, it rebranded its news operation as "Fox News Chicago" (though most verbal references are to simply "Fox News"). Fox purchased WPWR-TV in 2002, and WPWR's operations were integrated into WFLD's facilities in downtown Chicago.

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In January 2003, WFLD dropped the Fox Saturday morning cartoon block, now outsourced by Fox to producer "4 Kids TV", and the programs now air on WPWR in the same four-hour time block. WFLD is the first of the original six Fox-owned stations (owned prior to the New World stations purchase) to drop Fox's Saturday children's programming.

On May 7, 2006, WFLD adopted a new look for its newscasts, featuring a brand new set, new music, and new graphics. Simliar appearance packages are also being rolled out to other Fox-owned stations such as WNYW. Unlike other affiliates using the look, WFLD does not use the usual Fox mandate of the Fox (Channel Number) branding. When the new look debuted, the main station logo wasn't changed much (only the new color scheme was added).

On September 11, 2006, WFLD relaunched its website under the MyFox platform (which was rolled out to other Fox-owned stations throughought 2006), now located at myfoxchicago.com. On April 9, 2007, WFLD launched a new 10:00 PM newscast called "the TEN", anchored by David Novarro and former WLS-TV and WBBM-TV anchor/reporter Lauren Cohn which, according to the Chicago Sun-Times' Robert Feder's April 18, 2007 column, beat CBS O&O WBBM-TV's 10PM news on its second day on the air. In September 2007, WFLD's morning newscast "Fox News in the Morning" was re-named "Good Day Chicago".

For some time, WFLD's newscasts have had less of a tabloid feel than those on its Fox sisters. However, they are somewhat flashier than the other newscasts in town.

Digital Television

The station's digital channel: Digital channels
Channel Programming
32.1 / 31.1Main WFLD programming / FOX HD

News Personalities

Current

Anchors
  • Mike Barz - Weekday mornings 6 to 9 a.m.
  • Lauren Cohn - Weeknights at 10 p.m.
  • Patrick Elwood - Weekday mornings 5 to 6 a.m. and 12pm
  • Byron Harlan - Weekends
  • Jan Jeffcoat- Weekday mornings 6 to 9 a.m.
  • Nancy Loo - Weekday mornings 5 to 6 a.m. and 12pm
  • David Novarro - Weeknights at 10 p.m.
  • Nancy Pender - Weekends
  • Robin Robinson - Weeknights at 9 p.m.
  • Mark Suppelsa - Weeknights at 9 p.m.
Reporters
  • Lilia Chacon
  • Jack Conaty - Political Editor, Co-Host of Fox Chicago Sunday
  • Michelle Gielan (Also a Fill-In Anchor)
  • Darlene Hill (Former morning anchor)
  • Anne Kavanaugh (Seen Weekday mornings)
  • Kelly Kraft
  • Anita Padilla
  • Dane Placko - Co-Host of Fox Chicago Sunday
  • Mark Saxenmeyer - Special Projects Reporter
  • Margaret Shortridge - Family and Health Reporter
  • Sondra Solarte - Weekday Mornings Traffic Anchor/Noon Reporter
  • A.J. Sterling
  • Darian Trotter - Reporter for The Ten
  • David Viggiano - Entertainment Reporter
  • Craig Wall
  • Tera Williams
  • Larry Yellen - Investigative Reporter/Legal Analyst
Fox Chicago Weather Team
  • Steve Baron - Fill-In, Senior Web Producer of myFoxChicago.com
  • Amy Freeze - Chief Meteorologist, Weeknights
  • Tammie Souza - Weekday Mornings
  • Mark Strehl - Weekends
Sports
  • Chris Boden - Fill-in Anchor/Reporter (Per Diem)
  • Jill Carlson - Anchor/Reporter (Weekends)
  • Corey McPherrin - Primary Anchor (Weeknights), Sports Director
  • Tom Waddle - Analyst for Fox Kickoff Sunday and The Final Word

Former

  • Lisa Argen - weather (1993-1995)Now with KGO-TV
  • Kathy Balou - morning weather personality
  • Ron Beattie - announcer
  • Rick DiMaio - morning meteorologist (1995-2001),Chief Meteorologist (2001-2007)
  • Maurice DuBois - Anchor/Reporter (1994-1997; now at WCBS-TV in New York)
  • Jon Duncanson - Morning Anchor (1995-1998)
  • Sylvia Gomez - Weekend Anchor (1996-1997)
  • Tamron Hall - reporter/morning anchor (1997-2007; now at MSNBC)
  • Jonathan Hoenig - morning financial analyst (2000-2002; now at Fox News Channel)
  • Jon Najarian (Dr. J) - financial analyst
  • Walter Jacobson - Anchor/Reporter/"Perspectives" Host (1993-2005)
  • Michelle Leigh - morning meteorologist (2001-2006)
  • Kris Long - anchor (1989-1993; now at KPSP, Palm Springs,CA)
  • Brant Miller - Meteorologist (1989-1991, now at WMAQ-TV)
  • Johnny Morris - Sports Anchor/Commentator (1994-1998)
  • Marianne Murciano - morning news anchor (1993-2001)
  • Michael Pomeranz - Anchor/Reporter (1997-2000, now at KARE-TV in Minneapolis)
  • Richard Roeper - lifestyle commentator and movie critic (1994-2001; now at WLS-TV)
  • David Rose - morning anchor (1993-1994, now at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati)
  • Steve Perez Schill - evening weather anchor (1995-2001)
  • Bob Sirott - morning news anchor (1993-2001, now at WMAQ-TV)
  • Brian Smith - morning news anchor (1997-2001); now at Fox News Channel
  • Al Vaughters - reporter (1990-1994, now at WIVB-TV in Buffalo)
  • Harry Volkman - weekend meteorologist (1996-2005)
  • Sheila White - weekday mornings traffic (1997-2005)
  • Bruce Wolf - morning sports anchor (1987-2006; now at WMAQ-TV)
  • Joe Zone - sports anchor/reporter (1993-1996; now sports director at WFSB-TV in Hartford,CT)
  • Bill Zwecker - movie critic (2000-2003, now at WBBM-TV)
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News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

  • Fox News Chicago - Weekdays at Noon and 9 PM as well as on Weekends
  • Good Day Chicago - Weekday mornings 5-9 AM
  • The TEN - Weekdays at 10 PM

Station Slogans

  • The Most Powerful Name in Local News (2006-present)
  • Local Coverage. First. (2005-2006)

References

1. ^ TV Guide Chicago Issue #1798
2. ^ TV Guide Chicago Issue #1853
3. ^ TV Guide Chicago Issue #1902

External links


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Broadcast television in the Chicago market (Nielsen DMA #3)
Local television stations WBBM 2 (CBS) - W04CQ 4 (Silent) - WMAQ 5 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - WLS 7 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT3) - WGN 9 (The CW, The Tube on DT2) - WTTW 11 (PBS, Create on DT3) - WOCK-CA 13 (Azteca Amrica) - W13BQ 13 (DW) - W18AT 18 / W54BK 54 (LeSEA) - WYCC 20 (PBS) - W64CQ 22 (TBN) - WWME-CA 23 (Ind) - WHVI-LP 24 (LeSEA) - WCIU 26 (Ind) - WSPY-LP 30 (A1) - WFLD 32 (Fox) - WEDE-CA 34 (Ind) - WWTO 35 (TBN) - WCPX 38 (ION) -
WOCH-CA 41 (Ind) - WSNS 44 (TEL) - WFBT-CA 48 (Ind) - WPWR 50 (MNTV) - W54BE 54 (Edu. Ind) - WLFM-LP 55 (Ind) - WYIN 56 (PBS) - WXFT 60 (TFT) - WCHU-LP 61 (MTV3) - WJYS 62 (Ind) - WGBO 66 (UNI)
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Past local cable television channels
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Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Illinois
WGEM-DT 10.3 / "CGEM" () - WFLD 32 () - WQRF 39 () - WYZZ 43 () - WRSP 55 / WCCU 27 ()
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