{"id":22071,"date":"2016-04-11T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22071"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:12:00","slug":"vintage-wgn-tv-chicago-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22071","title":{"rendered":"Vintage WGN-TV &#8212; Chicago Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 1948, Chicago&#8217;s WGN-TV Sings On&#8230;Vintage Photo Album<\/p>\n<p>WGN, Channel 9, is one of the nations first and only enduring independent stations, but it wasn&#8217;t always that way. In the beginning, they dual network affiliations with both CBS and Dumont, which early on wasn&#8217;t that uncommon in new TV markets, or markets with only one station.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part is, they shared that dual affiliation with WBKB, Channel 4, there in Chicago&#8230;until CBS bought WBBM. After that, WGN became one of Dumont&#8217;s strongest affiliates, as well as a major production center for that network.<\/p>\n<p>Several Dumont programs were produced from the station&#8217;s facilities, including &#8220;The Al Morgan Show&#8221;, &#8220;Chicago Symphony&#8221;, &#8220;Chicagoland Mystery Players&#8221;, &#8220;Music From Chicago&#8221;, &#8220;They Stand Accused&#8221;, &#8220;Windy City Jamboree&#8221; and &#8220;Down You Go&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The station lost the Dumont affiliation when the network ceased operations on August 6, 1956; at that point, WGN became an independent station. The rest, as they say, &#8220;is history&#8221;. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com\/chi-vintage-wgn-tv-photos-20140416\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Vintage WGN-TV -- Chicago Tribune\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477163531_197_Vintage-WGN-TV-Chicago-Tribune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com\/chi-vintage-wgn-tv-photos-20140416\/\">Vintage WGN-TV &#8212; Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/990875130950036\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1948, Chicago&#8217;s WGN-TV Sings On&#8230;Vintage Photo Album WGN, Channel 9, is one of the nations first and only enduring independent stations, but it wasn&#8217;t always that way. In the beginning, they dual network affiliations with both CBS and Dumont, which early on wasn&#8217;t that uncommon in new TV markets, or markets with only one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59039,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions\/59039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}