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Skilling returned to the Chicago area and joined WGN-TV on August 13, 1978. [2] He was WGN-TV's chief meteorologist and was rumored to be the highest-paid local broadcast meteorologist in the United States. [5] He also had written the daily weather column for the Chicago Tribune. That feature, Ask Tom, ceased in August 2022 with a redesign of ...
CHICAGO — Tom Skilling, the longtime WGN-TV chief meteorologist, announced his retirement Thursday during the evening news. An always sunny presence, whatever the weather in Chicago, Skilling ...
A vehicle heads north on Williams Lake Road in Waterford during Metro Detroit’s first winter storm of 2024 on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
His final evening newscasts that day capped off a month-long tribute to Skilling, who earned reverence in the Chicago broadcasting and national meteorological communities during his tenure (the latter resulting from his weathercasts being televised over WGN's former superstation feed (now NewsNation) from 1978 to 2014) for the in-depth analysis ...
WGN-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW.It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is sister to the company's sole radio property, news/talk/sports station WGN (720 AM).
WGN America was an American subscription television network that operated from November 9, 1978 to February 28, 2021. The service was originally uplinked to satellite by United Video Inc. as a national feed of Chicago independent station WGN-TV, making the station's programming available to cable and satellite providers throughout the United States as the second nationally distributed ...
WGN radio moved back to North Michigan Avenue in 1986, relocating its operations to a studio in the Pioneer Court extension (WGN-TV remained at the Bradley Place facility, where that station operates to this day). [41] The former WGN annex onto Tribune Tower is now used as a retail space containing Dylan's Candy Bar.
WGN News at Nine (formerly The Nine O'Clock News; simulcast of 9 p.m. newscast; September 1980–January 30, 2014) WGN Midday News (formerly Chicago's Midday News and WGN News at Noon; simulcast of noon-1 p.m. CT portion, 1983–2014) [3] Heritage of Faith (1983–92) Chicago's Very Own (1988–92) $100,000 Fortune Hunt (1989–94) People to ...