Stephen Benjamin, the former mayor of Columbia, S.C., will be the new senior adviser and director of the Office of Public Engagement, replacing Keisha Lance Bottoms, the White House announced on Monday. WGN Sports (originally known as WGN-TV Sports from 1948 to 1993) was the programming division of WGN-TV (channel 9), an independent television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United Stateswhich is owned by the Nexstar Media Groupthat was responsible for all sports broadcasts on the station, some of which were previously also broadcast on its former national superstation feed, WGN . 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Presided by play-by-play announcer Jack Brickhouse and commentator Vince Lloyd, WGN co-produced the program for national broadcast on the DuMont Television Network, which aired the program from September 1949 until March 1955, during the station's tenure as a DuMont affiliate. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WGN_Sports&oldid=1141190302, Articles with dead external links from July 2021, Articles with dead external links from September 2018, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Dan Roan Cubs fill-in play-by-play announcer (2005; 2019); Horse racing host, Tyler Terens Fire fill-in play-by-play announcer/sideline reporter (20202022). Former WGN Radio Traffic Reporter Violeta Podrumedic catches up with John about the closing of her father's restaurant, Little Bucharest Bistro, after 40 years of business. [114][115] WGN-TV's final sports telecast involving one of the four legacy professional sports franchises that the station has been involved with during its history was the second game of a White SoxDetroit Tigers doubleheader at Guaranteed Rate Field on September 28, 2019. WGN Radio Sports Reporters Dave Eanet and Mark Carman join John Williams with the story of how Ed Farmer's phone call to President Bush allowed the game to go on, and more fun memories. [6] Jack Brickhouse, the longtime sports directorand later, vice president of sports programmingfor the WGN television and radio stations, handled play-by-play announcing duties for the home games of both teams until 1967, and continued to call Cubs games until his retirement from broadcasting in 1981. Self 2 episodes, 2018 . In 2015, King's second book, Back in the Game, was published by Eckhartz Press. [4][5] After a 1994 reader poll, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that viewers appreciated the "down-to-earth, no-hype styles" of King and his fellow WGN sports anchor Dan Roan.[6]. $35. 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Among the Bears games shown on the station were simulcasts of ESPN-televised Monday Night Football broadcasts (including match-ups against the Dallas Cowboys on October 1, 2012, and against the Washington Redskins on September 23, 2019). On a stage he'd always dreamed about taking, the former Georgia defensive star stood before a group of reporters and gave an emotional memorial about his friend and former college teammate, Devin Willock, who was killed in a car crash Jan. 15. Gross, Gil - Morning personality at KLAC-AM in Los Angeles. (L-R) Violeta, Branko, Brenda and Vera Podrumedic in Little Bucharest Bistro (Courtesy: Violeta Podrumedic) John Williams Here's what that means for fans", "Cubs launching a network of their own, Marquee Sports Network", "Sports media: Will Chicago teams leave WGN-TV without any sports? All White Sox, Bulls and Cubs games televised on WCIU began to be syndicated to local stations in central Illinois and Iowa through the "WGN Sports Network" service beginning with each team's respective seasons in 2011. [109][110] Unlike in New York and Los Angeles (where WPIX and KTLA maintain broadcast relationships with the New York Mets/New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, respectively), neither team has elected to enter into a licensing agreement with either network to allow some games to remain available over-the-air via WGN-TV or another Chicago-area station. So Are the Channels", "Channel 26 gets Cubs, Bulls next season", "White Sox add WPWR-Ch. Sportscaster Mark Giangreco has worked in Chicago TV for 39 years, 27 of them at ABC7. Wilson has been climbing fast on some draft boards, something Anderson also has noticed as the two did combine prep work together following Wilson's foot surgery in November. 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Coverage of baseball games involving the Chicago Cubs has perhaps typified WGN-TV's programming identity, due to the popularity of the telecasts both locally and, as a superstation, throughout the Midwestern United States. The final WGN Sports-produced game telecast to air on WGN America was a contest between the Bulls and the Golden State Warriors, held at Chicago's United Center, on December 6, 2014. As part of the opt-out clause exercise, the team gave the station a 30-day window to make a counteroffer for a deal that would last through the 2019 season (which, in any instance, would raise the rights fees that WGN pays the team from an annual rate of $20 million, and align the contract with the end of the team's cable rights deal). Prior to striking agreements with other stations in Illinois and Indiana to carry Blackhawks games in 2015, these methods were the only ways that American viewers could view WGN's Blackhawks game coverage outside the Chicago market, since WGN America was not permitted to carry the team's games due to the NHL's exclusive broadcast contracts (such as its national television deal with NBCUniversal that began in 2008). Janet Rausa Fuller. Some games also air on MyNetworkTV-affiliated sister WNDY-TV (channel 23) due to pre-emption limitations included in The CW's affiliation contracts that also forced WGN to defer some of its sports telecasts prior to its 2016 disaffiliation from that network. However, criticism of the move from some subscribers led TCI to reverse course and retain the WGN superstation feed from affected systems in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. He served as sports anchor for the station's 9 p.m. newscast on Saturday and Sunday evenings, and filed sports reports for the station's Sunday through Thursday evening newscasts. To fill the void, a series of celebrity guest announcers appeared on the WGN telecasts in his place. . In those cases, although ABC-owned WLS-TV has right of first refusal to MNF simulcasts as its corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company, holds majority ownership of ESPN, WLS management elected to exercise the station's right of first refusal over the game telecasts to avoid preempting ABC's live Monday night broadcast of Dancing with the Stars.[44]. $250. (Due to low subscriber rates and resulting financial losses, Sox ownership sold Sportsvision to a venture of Cablevision Program Enterprises and The Washington Post Company in December 1983. Rich King (born 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sports journalist who worked for CW affiliate and national cable superstation WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois. 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In November 2010, WGN-TV became the home for preseason and regular season games involving the Bears the latter originally consisting of NFL Network Thursday Night Football simulcasts that are not carried by a broadcast network. Caray also brought his unique rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch to the channel 9 broadcast booth. 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(During situations when WGN was scheduled to air sports broadcasts in place of network programs from The WB and, from 2006 to 2016, The CW, WGN-TV rebroadcast the sports-displaced network shows on a tape-delayed basis later in the week, usually in a weekend evening timeslot not occupied by a scheduled game telecast, as neither The WB nor The CW has ever aired prime time programs on Saturdays and as The CW had embargoed providing programs on Sundays from September 2009 until October 2018). Lauren Magiera signed off Sunday after six years as sports anchor and reporter at WGN-Channel 9. The decision to move most of the White Sox's game telecasts to over-the-air pay television led to his decision to switch team play-by-play allegiances, as the limited exposure that the Sox would experience as a result of having the majority of games available over Sportsvision (which required a set-top descrambler box to receive the signal) would limit the team's television accessibility. (The Cubs would not hold nighttime games at Wrigley Field until April 1988, when it became the last MLB club to begin holding games after sunset.) The Sox's eight-year tenure on WFLD ended in acrimony, with WFLD management filing a lawsuit accusing the team of mismanagement that resulted in declining game viewership and profit losses on the contract as well as breached advertising agreements with local auto dealership collective Chicagoland Dodge Dealers. Ed Grennan - Passed away in 2000 due to a heart attack. (WGN America) In 2020, there was nothing hotter on TV than cable news. and Brickhouse's "Hey-hey!"). As part of an out-of-court settlement between Sox ownership and WFLD, on September 14, 1989, the Reinsdorf ownership group signed a five-year agreement with WGN-TV to carry a minimum of 45 White Sox games per year, beginning with the 1990 season. [33][34][37][38] The return of the Bulls to WGN-TV was a major boon for the station, as it overlapped with the seven-season NBA championship dynasty that flourished during Michael Jordan's tenure with the team. Sportspodcasting #podcasting #podcast #podcasts #TikTok #Instagram #yahoosports #ESPN #ABCSports #NBCSPORTS #CBSSPORTS #WGN #WTBS #Chitown #Skytown #Bulls --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the . With NBC, he hosted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1998 to 2017 and co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games. [65][66][67][68], In 1982, the NBA instituted limits on the number of basketball games that teams could license to designated superstations such as WGN-TV that reached at least 5% of American cable households (not counting carriage within their home market), applying only to games that would conflict with those airing on the NBA's national cable partners, ESPN or USA Network, while allowing them to continue carrying up to 41 games per season under existing NBA local broadcast rules. Tribune continued to maintain a 5% interest in the Cubs as part of a 10-year partnership to satisfy IRS issues concerning the deal;[16][17] on January 25, 2019, Tribune sold off the minority share to Ricketts-owned parent company Chicago Entertainment Ventures, LLC for $107.5 million. Dan Roan, age 68, is retiring on May 26, 2022 after 45 years as a sports reporter and anchor. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks to . The station has been noted for being one of a handful of commercial television stations in the United Statesand, from the early 2000s until 2019, the only such stationto maintain a substantial schedule of locally originated telecasts from multiple major professional sports franchises. "Finding solace in memories: Filling book with reflections on wife a labor of love for WGN's King". She was 57. In years which NBC Sports does not cover the Arlington Million as part of Road to the Breeders' Cup, WGN America carries the national simulcast, since the winner obtains an automatic bid to the Breeders' Cup Turf. Some people can say certain things others can't. That's reality. In honor, Nick Digilio and listeners discuss the best Chicago News Anchors: Past and Present. (The first WGN-leased game on CLTV, which provided supplementary local cable coverage to the team's existing agreement with SportsChannel Chicago, was an exhibition game against the Seattle Mariners on March 21, 1993. INDIANAPOLIS (AP)Nolan Smith poured out his heart Wednesday at the NFL's annual scouting combine. Off the Beaten Path. King was recognized for his achievement in sportscasting. [3] The station aired its inaugural sports telecast on April 16, two weeks after WGN-TV signed on, involving an exhibition rivalry game between the Cubs and the White Sox (which the Sox won, 4-1).[4][5]. To mark the shift, WGN America changed its named to NewsNation on March 1. 4.95 (161) 24hr. Tyree Wilson of Texas Tech and Will McDonald IV of Iowa State appear to be the top defensive ends. [2] In 1970, Rich moved to radio station WBBM (AM) as a writer and producer, before becoming the assistant news director and managing editor two years later in 1972. (The NBA contended the restriction was exempt from antitrust law under a provision of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, which was deemed in later rulings to only be applicable to the sale or transfer a national game package to a television network and not those involving individual teams. )[72][73], On January 26, 1991, Senior U.S. District Judge Hubert L. Will granted a permanent injunction in favor of the Bulls and WGN, prohibiting the league from instituting the policy on the determination that the NBA's superstation licensing restrictions were "a significant restraint of trade" in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Nexstar-owned WGN Chicago has added Chris Boden and Kaitlin Sharkey as fulltime sports anchor-reporters. During the years leading up to the programming separation of WGN-TV and now-former national feed WGN America, the Illinois Derby and Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap telecasts were shown exclusively over the Chicago area signal. Former ABC News correspondent Adrienne Bankert is joining NewsNation as a morning show anchor. Combining his relationships with both the Cubs and White Sox, Brickhouse called over 5,000 baseball games during his career, sharing the booth with announcers such as Milo Hamilton, Lou Boudreau, Vince Lloyd (who also served as a sports anchor for WGN-TV) and Lloyd Pettit (who also served as a WGN-TV news and sports anchor during the timeframe). [120], During WGN-TV's 37-year run as a national superstation, its national feed which eventually became known as WGN America in August 2008 distributed most of the station's sports telecasts to multichannel television providers throughout the United States and Canada. Currently, ESPN Radio 1000 airs the Chicago Bears football games with Jeff Joniak doing the play-by-play, along with color commentator Tom Thayer and sideline reporter Mark Grote. Anchoring weeknight broadcasts from 8PM to 11PM will be Joe Donlon a Years active in Milwaukee: 1975-1978 Since 1978, Tom Skilling has been known as the head weather honcho at Chicago's WGN-TV; in Milwaukee, he'll forever be known as the man responsible for the. Black History Month. 9 ratings". As Chicago was one of the last major metropolitan areas in the U.S. that had yet to be fully wired for cable television service, WPWR which operated as a timeshare with HATCO-60-owned Spanish-language independent WBBS-TV (now UniMs owned-and-operated station WXFT-DT and sole occupant of channel 60) would cede most of its broadcast day (running from 7:00p.m. to 2:30a.m.) to the subscription sports service, offering a mix of nighttime games from the White Sox and other local professional sports teams (including the Bulls and the Blackhawks); some of Sportsvision's Sox broadcasts were also simulcast over companion pay service ONTV (carried at the time over WSNS) and were also contracted out to WFLD to maintain free over-the-air coverage. [75] Subsequently, on April 14 of that year, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals with the Northern District Court that overheard an appeal of Will's decision held that the superstation limit was an illegal restraint of trade. [106][107][108] Subsequently, on February 13, the Cubs and Sinclair Broadcast Group (which was sued by Tribune for breach of contract in August 2018, after Sinclair's various attempts to use loopholes around FCC rules to acquire all of Tribune's broadcasting properties created regulatory hurdles in the former's acquisition of the company and Tribune's resulting termination of the attempted merger) announced of the formation of the Marquee Sports Network, a regional sports network planned for launch in the Spring of 2020 that would serve as the exclusive home of the Cubs' regional game telecasts. Along with Jarrett Payton and Josh Frydman, they will cover stories across the Chicago sports spectrum, anchor sports segments throughout WGN newscasts, and host GN Sports, a live half-hour sports show airing seven nights a week at 10:30-11 p.m. 75% of royalties from the book went to the American Cancer Society and the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind. WGN is also among the few local television stations to have regularly carried events from teams in any of the five major sports leagues that have historically contracted their games for over-the-air broadcast well into the 21st century, even as professional sports franchises migrated most or all of their locally originated game telecasts to regional sports networks that require a subscription to a multichannel television provider (including cable, satellite, IPTV and fiber-optic-based services) to receive, citing the hefty rights fees those services pay for the contractual rights that factor as major drivers of league and team revenue. From the 199798 season thereafter, the number of games permitted to air on the superstation feed increased to 15 per year. When former WGN-Ch. In December 1980, Channel 9 signed a partial broadcasting agreement with White Sox, which confined its game telecasts to the team's road gamesa reduced schedule of 60 gamesfor the 1981 season. [122][123][124][125] Most notably, WISH-TV (channel 8) in Indianapolis reached agreements to carry the station's Cubs, White Sox and Blackhawks telecasts (as well as games from the former that were produced by WLS-TV) as part of its efforts to restore sports content to its lineup in the months following the loss of its CBS affiliation ironically, to WGN-TV sister station WTTV (channel 4) and its Kokomo-based satellite WTTK (channel 29) and its subsequent switch to The CW in January 2015. Giving on 10. When permitted under its contracts, WGN America occasionally aired national simulcasts of WGN's sports programming, mostly Cubs, White Sox and Bulls games. Along with Major League Baseball telecasts, WGN-TV's initial sports lineup included a Saturday night wrestling program produced by National Wrestling Alliance promoter Fred Kohler, Wrestling From Marigold, originating from the Marigold Gardens arena in downtown Chicago. King and Smith married in 1970, they and were married for 32 years until she died as a result of cancer in 2002,[8] after having fought the disease two previous times. Baseball and basketball telecasts on WGN-TV and other superstations began raising the ire of Major League Baseball and NBA management during the 1980s and early 1990s, amid concerns over those broadcasts undercutting the value of broadcast contracts with other national broadcast and cable networks. In 1989, he had the highest approval rating (75%) among local television and radio sports reporters in a Chicago Sun-Times readers poll. Reveal contacts of top WGN Radio AM 720 managers and employees. Lauren Magiera is a popular American sports anchor and reporter from Chicago, who worked with WGN News from April 2016 to April 2022. With WGN-TV's emerging prominence as a national superstation during the 1980s and 1990s, Caray's fan base and that of the Cubs grew beyond Chicago and the Midwestern U.S. into other parts of the country. Robert Feder. Show more Show. Dominick Stasi, news director of the Nexstar Media station, confirmed in an email to staff Monday that Roan's last day on the air would be May 26. Former San Diego State and NBA Player - Randy Holcomb Joins Hoot in The Sports Deli Podcast: Where Everyone Deserves a Seat at the Table . $50. "[96], In August 1990, the MLB filed a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to propose allowing local television stations to force cable systems to blackout superstation-licensed games involving local franchises within the team's home market through a change in how network program non-duplication rules define a "network program" to include live sports broadcasts shown simultaneously on local and out-of-market stations available via cable. Now a world traveler. The veteran Chicago sportscaster and former Comcast SportsNet Chicago host. In August 1966, WGN-TV signed an agreement with the Chicago Bulls to broadcast games involving the upstart NBA franchise under a five-year agreement beginning with the 196667 season, beginning with an initial slate of up to twelve away games for the team's inaugural season. [1] WGN-TV's final sports broadcast was the October 9 matchup between the Fire and the New England Revolution, as a result of Apple TV reaching an exclusive 10-year worldwide broadcast deal with MLS.[2]. Over the years, many Bears play-by-play broadcasters have included Jack Brickhouse and Wayne Larrivee. Kupcinet began writing sports columns for the The Chicago Daily Times (now known as the Sun-Times) in 1935. News Nation, the three-hour prime-time block of live news debuting September 1 on WGN America, has set its on-air talent lineup. On February 15, 2011, it was announced that the team had renewed their broadcast contract with WGN-TV for five additional years through the 201516 NHL season. Each of the city's major professional sports franchises, along with several area collegiate teams, have had their games regularly televised over channel 9. Since the inception of the sports programming unit, the station had produced ancillary pre-game and post-game shows for most of its sporting events, including The Lead-Off Man (pre-game) and The Tenth Inning (post-game) for its Cubs and White Sox baseball telecasts and BullsEye for its telecasts of Bulls basketball games. Tribune responded to the move with a breach of contract lawsuit, alleging that the action overstepped the bounds of Vincent's authority. (Detroit Tigers owner John Fetzer also owned television and radio stations in the Midwest during his ownership of the team from 1956 to 1983; however, none were based within the Detroit market. Sports Reporter - New York Mets . Broadcaster, Is Dead at 65", "Milo Hamilton Never Did Make Peace With Harry Caray", "Pettit found his calling in Blackhawks' booth", sorted by primary channel network affiliations. Upcoming concerts in the Capital Region. )[28], Dissatisfied with the licensing fees it was receiving for the WGN telecasts, however, Reinsdorf and Einhorn (the latter being a former president of CBS Sports and founder of the defunct TVS Television Network syndicated sports service) decided to move the White Sox's telecasts to Sportsvision, a joint venture between the ReinsdorfEinhorn partnership and Fred Eychaner, owner of upstart independent WPWR-TV (channel 60, now a MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station on channel 50) through parent Metrowest Corporation. Meet anchors, reporters and more on the news team page. 4.98 (284) 24hr. 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