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Its call letters standing for “World's Greatest Newspaper,” WGN, a clear-channel radio (and then TV) station, was not actually started by its longtime owner, the Tribune Company, but was purchased by the newspaper giant soon after it went on the air in June 1924.
In 1934 WGN talent and executives helped create the Mutual Radio Network; recently it has attracted thousands of listeners with a middle-of-the-road music/talk format.
WGN America started as a TV superstation in 1978 by uploading WGN-Ch.
The debut of “News Nation” comes 40 years after the Cable News Network went live from Atlanta with a husband-and-wife anchor team, introducing the concept of a 24/7 TV news channel “to provide information to people when it wasn’t available before,” founder Ted Turner said at its 1980 launch.
“We’re kind of going back to what Ted Turner saw in 1980 as an opportunity,” Compton said.
When former NBC president and CEO Jeff Zucker took the helm of CNN in 2013, he added more personalities and the now ubiquitous pundit panels to the lineup, boosting the network’s ratings but leaving what WGN America hopes will be an opening for straight cable news.
But for such a bold business venture, a newscast built on the Nexstar Media Group’s 2019 purchase of Tribune Broadcasting, “NewsNation” showed no particular eagerness to be bold in its presentation of the news.
Joe Donlon was named co-anchor of WGN America, a new nightly national cable newscast set to launch in September 2020. (Craig Mitchelldyer, Craig Mitche / HANDOUT)
21, 2020. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
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