Tribune Broadcasting

Background

Tribune Broadcasting is the broadcasting arm of Tribune Company. It began in June 1924 when the Chicago Tribune acquired WDAP and renamed it to "WGN" in Chicago ("WGN" stands for "World's Greatest Newspaper", slogan of the company's namesake, the Chicago Tribune). It entered television in 1948 with WGN-TV in Chicago and WPIX-TV in New York (the "PIX" in WPIX is for the New York Daily News's then-slogan, "New York's Picture Newspaper"). It grew by acquiring more stations (such as Duluth's KDAL (now "KDLH") in 1960, being Tribune's first station west of the Mississippi, Denver's KCTO in 1966 (now "KWGN"), being kept by Tribune after KDAL's sale, and Los Angeles's KTLA in 1985, formerly owned by Gene Autry). From 1995 to 2006, it owned a minority interest in the now defunct The WB network. During The WB's existence, Tribune exited the radio business (excluding WGN-AM), bought out a company called Renaissance Broadcasting (no relation to Renaissance Pictures), and bought several other stations (such as Seattle's KCPQ). Many of its WB stations were sold not too long after the inception of it's successor, The CW (the aforementioned stations, with one exception, all went with The CW at its launch, though two of these stations would later disaffiliate from the network; San Diego's KSWB in 2008, and WGN-TV in 2016). In 2013, Tribune Broadcasting expanded considerably through their purchase of another company, Local TV (which itself was formed from stations formerly owned by The New York Times and those formerly owned by Fox Television Stations). On May 8, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group reached an agreement to acquire Tribune Media Company (the parent company of Tribune Broadcasting), though by August 2018 this agreement collapsed. Afterward, on December 2, 2018, Nexstar Media Group reached it's own agreement to acquire Tribune Media, this being approved on September 16, 2019 and completed three days later.

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