[27] Around this time, White Sox broadcaster Harry Caray joined the WGN family, occasionally acting as a substitute sports anchor for its evening newscasts for most of the 1970s. )[29][30][31] With Harry Caray moving to Cubs play-by-play duties and Jimmy Piersall moving to Sportsvision as its pre- and post-game show host, the team hired former major league players Don Drysdale (who previously served as commentator for the California Angels and ABC Sports) and Ken Harrelson to helm the Sox broadcast booth for the 1982 season.[32]. [65][66][67][68], In 1982, the NBA instituted limits on the number of basketball games that teams could license to designated superstations such as WGN-TV that reached at least 5% of American cable households (not counting carriage within their home market), applying only to games that would conflict with those airing on the NBA's national cable partners, ESPN or USA Network, while allowing them to continue carrying up to 41 games per season under existing NBA local broadcast rules. WGN-TV has also held broadcast rights to the Illinois Derby, Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap and Arlington Million (except in years NBC Sports carried coverage as part of the Road to the Breeders' Cup) horse races. "Sportscasters We Love to Love . King also authored a novel entitled My Maggie, which was published in October 2007 under King Books. WGN-TV carried select regular season NFL games involving the Chicago Bears and the now-defunct Chicago Cardinals via DuMont during the 1951 NFL season; following that, the Bears and Cardinals moved their telecasts to ABC and by association, ABC O&O WBKB-TV (now WLS-TV) under a limited contract that lasted until CBS gained primary rights to both teams as part of a league-wide television package in 1956. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [117][118][119] The deal left WGN-TV without sports programming for the first time in the station's 74-year history; however, WGN-TV plans to carry events from LIV Golf starting on February 25, 2023 as part of a time-brokerage deal with Nexstar; although the deal was signed with the CW, WCIU agreed to cede rights to the Chicago market due to cross-ownership. WGN Radio AM 720 United States employs 59 employees. Baseball and basketball telecasts on WGN-TV and other superstations began raising the ire of Major League Baseball and NBA management during the 1980s and early 1990s, amid concerns over those broadcasts undercutting the value of broadcast contracts with other national broadcast and cable networks. Steve Crocker, who worked as a news anchor and reporter for more than 30 years at WBBM 780-AM/WCFS 105.9-FM, died March 17 in Asheville, North Carolina. As a result, although it continued to air some weekday games during network prime time hours periodically, Channel 9 shifted to showing the majority of scheduled sports broadcasts on weekday and weekend afternoons, weekday late evenings (in the case of games held in the West Coast after network programming ended locally) and weekend evenings. Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson (WGN-TV photo) Suggest a Correction Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. The ruling permitted the station to televise at least 30 games (eleven fewer than the 41 annual games that the Bulls and WGN requested) over the Chicago signal and superstation feed, while allowing the NBA to impose a reasonable rights fee (around $40,000, rather than the $100,000 licensing fee sought by the NBA) for broadcasts of each game, based on the consideration that the league received more than $2 million in annual copyright payments from WGN's Bulls broadcasts. [63][64] The sub-licensing agreements as well as the splintering of the team's telecast rights with regional cable sports networks Fox Sports Net Chicago (later FSN Chicago) from 1999 until 2003 and then Comcast SportsNet Chicago/NBC Sports Chicago beginning in 2004 resulted in the number of Cubs games produced by WGN-TV gradually decreasing in recent years (down to 70 per season by 2008). Broadcaster, Is Dead at 65", "Milo Hamilton Never Did Make Peace With Harry Caray", "Pettit found his calling in Blackhawks' booth", sorted by primary channel network affiliations. (In the respective cases, WGN-TV's coverage of Santo's funeral aired on the digital subchannels of selected stations owned by Tribune and its partner group Local TV, while the NHL Network provided a simulcast of the Chicago signal's feed of the Blackhawks' victory parade.) The veteran Chicago sportscaster and former Comcast SportsNet Chicago host. [18][19][20], On November 5, 2013, the Cubs exercised an option to opt out of their television contract with WGN-TV which was originally set to end in 2022 following the 2014 season, with the intent of seeking a higher-value deal for the next five-year contractual period. WGN Morning News (TV Series 1994- ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Over the years, many Bears play-by-play broadcasters have included Jack Brickhouse and Wayne Larrivee. Although WSNS-TV had exclusivity over the White Sox telecasts, WGN maintained an outsourcing agreement with that station, under which Channel 9 handled production responsibilities for the games on behalf of WSNS. [6] Jack Brickhouse, the longtime sports directorand later, vice president of sports programmingfor the WGN television and radio stations, handled play-by-play announcing duties for the home games of both teams until 1967, and continued to call Cubs games until his retirement from broadcasting in 1981. WISH and WNDY never carried Bulls telecasts due to the presence of the Indiana Pacers (whose games air locally on Fox Sports Indiana) and due to restrictions enforced by the NBA on regional broadcasts outside a team's designated territory.[126][127]. (Sportschannel subsequently filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the White Sox as a result, with the new White Sox ownership contending that the original agreement was not binding for the 1982 season as contended by Cablevision. Each of the city's major professional sports franchises, along with several area collegiate teams, have had their games regularly televised over channel 9. "I think I'm real close to 100 percent," said Wilson, who . The station's telecasts also ran into contractual restrictions after WGN became a charter affiliate of The WB in January 1995. As a result, on November 9, 1966, the Sox struck a five-year deal with Field Communications-controlled UHF independent WFLD-TV (channel 32, now a Fox owned-and-operated station) to televise the team's full slate of home and away games starting in 1968. . Nov 21, 2022, . The parties also agreed to replace the NBA's superstation tax with a revenue sharing model, under which the NBA would collect 50% of all advertising revenue accrued from the national WGN telecasts. [3] The station aired its inaugural sports telecast on April 16, two weeks after WGN-TV signed on, involving an exhibition rivalry game between the Cubs and the White Sox (which the Sox won, 4-1).[4][5]. [75] Subsequently, on April 14 of that year, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals with the Northern District Court that overheard an appeal of Will's decision held that the superstation limit was an illegal restraint of trade. Boden has been a fill-in sports reporter with WGN News since August 2021; he joins the team full-time immediately. Tribune continued to maintain a 5% interest in the Cubs as part of a 10-year partnership to satisfy IRS issues concerning the deal;[16][17] on January 25, 2019, Tribune sold off the minority share to Ricketts-owned parent company Chicago Entertainment Ventures, LLC for $107.5 million. [100] In July 1992, Vincent ordered the relocation of the Cubs, the Atlanta Braves and two other National League Eastern Division teams that did not regularly broadcast their games on superstations (the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals) to different divisions starting with the 1993 season, with the Cubs and the Cardinals being reassigned the NL Western Division and the Braves and the Reds being moved to the Eastern Division. [114][115] WGN-TV's final sports telecast involving one of the four legacy professional sports franchises that the station has been involved with during its history was the second game of a White SoxDetroit Tigers doubleheader at Guaranteed Rate Field on September 28, 2019. Some people can say certain things others can't. That's reality. "Cubs in prime time boost Ch. (L-R) Violeta, Branko, Brenda and Vera Podrumedic in Little Bucharest Bistro (Courtesy: Violeta Podrumedic) John Williams (Under NFL broadcasting rules, games that are televised on the league's national cable partners are required to be simulcast over a local broadcast station in the home markets of the participating teams.) [76][77][78][73], When the case was remanded back to Judge Will in October 1993, it was now based on new contractual terms in the league's deal with NBC that awarded it cable rights to games not covered by a national cable agreement, despite the network having yet to own general entertainment or sports-based cable outlets, as well as plans to implement a licensing fee (reportedly $250,000 per game) to teams that telecast over superstations. WGN sportscaster Rich King announces retirement, 1997 to 1998 Chicago/Midwest Emmy Winners, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rich_King_(sportscaster)&oldid=1085229383, American television reporters and correspondents, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 29 April 2022, at 05:56. The station's coverage of Little League Baseball games during the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s was noted for the innovation of the center field camera angle now commonplace in baseball coverage. Tribune Broadcasting, TBS parent Turner Broadcasting System and the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) also filed petitions opposing the MLB request. 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She was 57. Caray also brought his unique rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch to the channel 9 broadcast booth. (During situations when WGN was scheduled to air sports broadcasts in place of network programs from The WB and, from 2006 to 2016, The CW, WGN-TV rebroadcast the sports-displaced network shows on a tape-delayed basis later in the week, usually in a weekend evening timeslot not occupied by a scheduled game telecast, as neither The WB nor The CW has ever aired prime time programs on Saturdays and as The CW had embargoed providing programs on Sundays from September 2009 until October 2018). Former WGN Radio Traffic Reporter Violeta Podrumedic catches up with John about the closing of her father's restaurant, Little Bucharest Bistro, after 40 years of business. In honor, Nick Digilio and listeners discuss the best Chicago News Anchors: Past and Present. [122][123][124][125] Most notably, WISH-TV (channel 8) in Indianapolis reached agreements to carry the station's Cubs, White Sox and Blackhawks telecasts (as well as games from the former that were produced by WLS-TV) as part of its efforts to restore sports content to its lineup in the months following the loss of its CBS affiliation ironically, to WGN-TV sister station WTTV (channel 4) and its Kokomo-based satellite WTTK (channel 29) and its subsequent switch to The CW in January 2015. Steve Stone (1983-2000; 2003-2004) Dan Roan (1984-2019); substitute broadcaster and host of certain specials; WGN only; Dewayne Staats (1985-89) Jim Frey (1987) Dave Nelson (1988-89) In years which NBC Sports does not cover the Arlington Million as part of Road to the Breeders' Cup, WGN America carries the national simulcast, since the winner obtains an automatic bid to the Breeders' Cup Turf. Cubs Win! There are things you . Sports Reporter, Anchor, Host: Illinois, USA pxxxxxxxxxxh@wgnradio.com: Anna Davlantes: Broadcaster / Communications Manager: Illinois, USA . Kaitlin Sharkey is a sports anchor and reporter for WGN-TV. Self 2 episodes, 2018 . "Masters of the mike - Fans pick best (and worst) sportscasters". Barry Cronin. King has served on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind and the communications committee of the American Cancer Society. The Curse: Cubs Win! According to family, he was 77 and had. WGN Radio Sports Reporters Dave Eanet and Mark Carman join John Williams with the story of how Ed Farmer's phone call to President Bush allowed the game to go on, and more fun memories. With NBC, he hosted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1998 to 2017 and co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games. Giving on 10. WGN-TV shared the local telecast rights to the Cubs with WBKB-TV (channel 4, now CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV on channel 2) until 1951, with Channel 9 gaining exclusive rights to the Cubs broadcasts starting in 1952. Louis, Missouri, during its tenure as an independent station); select Bulls games aired by WGN and WCIU were also simulcast to many of these same stations and others within the team's designated market territory. During the years leading up to the programming separation of WGN-TV and now-former national feed WGN America, the Illinois Derby and Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap telecasts were shown exclusively over the Chicago area signal. The angles were later used for Cubs game coverage and was quickly adopted for local and national baseball telecasts by other professional and collegiate broadcasters.[49]. On March 30, 2008, the Blackhawks announced three-year broadcasting agreements with Channel 9 and Comcast SportsNet Chicago that would allow both broadcasters to carry a divided schedule of the team's home and away games beginning with the 200809 season. )[72][73], On January 26, 1991, Senior U.S. District Judge Hubert L. Will granted a permanent injunction in favor of the Bulls and WGN, prohibiting the league from instituting the policy on the determination that the NBA's superstation licensing restrictions were "a significant restraint of trade" in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. 9 ratings". 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