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WBBM-TV's rival station, WLS-TV, was the only other station to have operated its full-power digital signal on a VHF allocation until the station moved its digital broadcasts to UHF channel 44, to alleviate reception problems, although it retained VHF channel 7 as the allotment for its digital fill-in translator when it launched on October 31, 2009.
[3] [6] The transmission facility was completed in late 1969, with channel 44 sharing with WBBM-TV on the east mast. [7] After the death of company founder Edwin Silverman that February, [8] WSNS began broadcasting on April 5, 1970. Its format was a radical departure from that of any television station of the time: a continuous printed roundup ...
WBBM may refer to the following broadcast media outlets in the Chicago, Illinois area: WBBM-TV, a television station (digital channel 12 or virtual channel 2) licensed to Chicago and an owned-and-operated affiliate of the CBS Television Network; Any of three radio stations formerly owned by CBS Radio and currently owned by Audacy:
By 1973, WLS' Eyewitness News broadcasts surpassed NBC-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 ...
In 2000, Williams was a finalist to replace Lester Holt as a principal news anchor at WBBM-TV, according to a November 15, 2002 article in the Chicago Sun-Times. Williams left ABC News in June 2001 as part of a companywide downsizing. [1] In late 2001, Williams rejoined WGN-TV as a free-lance, per diem reporter. He remained in that position ...
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Paramount Pictures, which had owned KTLA (channel 5) in Los Angeles and WBKB (channel 4, now WBBM-TV on channel 2) in Chicago, owned a share of the network. However, the FCC declared that Paramount controlled DuMont and thus forbade the network and the studio from acquiring any more stations. [2]
Pam Zekman (born October 22, 1944, in Chicago) [1] is an American journalist who had been an investigative reporter at WBBM-TV in Chicago from 1981 to 2020. [2] A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Zekman spent over a decade as a newspaper reporter before working in television. [3]