WGN TV

WGN Television, whose call letters are derived from the Chicago Tribune's 1st slogan, World's Greatest Newspaper, hit the airwaves on April 5, 1948 on Channel 9 in Chicago from its studios at Tribune Tower. Colonel Robert McCormick led the Tribune Company into the TV era, believing that in television, we currently have embarked upon another of America's adventures. In addition to carrying Chicago Cubs and White Sox baseball games in the 1950s, WGN-TV made its 1st attempts at producing entertainment series to air on the station while distributing them to TV stations throughout the country. Although initially an affiliate of the DuMont and CBS television networks, WGN-TV realized it could better serve the Chicago area audience as an independent station.