Talk:NewsNation/Archive 1

Superstation Status
The article was riddled with reference to WGN as asuperstation. This is inacccurate. It lost superstation status when the cable/satellite feed became different from local feed. Furthermore the statements about WGN being the only superstation covering local sports is false. even if it had not lost this status other superstations like WWOR,WPIX, KTLA broadcast local teams toa national audience. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.235.24 (talk) 01:30, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

The second paragraph of this article (as of Jan. 26, 2014) has this statement: "As of 2014 WGN America is no longer a Superstation but is now considered a general TV channel." Could we please have a citation backing up this statement? While there is a significant different between WGN-TV/Chicago and WGN America, I believe the latter is still technically (in the legal sense) considered a superstation. It doesn't mean much to the average viewer, but the superstation designation is an important distinction in carriage with cable/satellite companies. As a superstation, for example, WGN America does not split any of its ad time with cable/satco operators. Also, any provider carrying the channel pay into the copyright royalty tribunal. Unless I see evidence suggesting otherwise (I scoured the Net and came up empty), I am not convinced WGN America has reverted from superstation to basic cable channel -- not in the TECHNICAL sense at least. (Programming ... that's a whole other matter.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.213.46.65 (talk) 00:03, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Reason for Existence?
Why does this page even exist on Wikipedia? It's marked as a stub, and has a little information, but we already have an article on WGN-TV separate from this one that is far more complete and has the same information on it. I recommend we merge the two articles, or turn this one into a redirect to the other, as this one seems superfluous. Schuminweb 04:15, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Superstation is on nationwide see my note below. Quadzilla99 05:56, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

It is a national cable channel not a superstation. There are 5 superstations an neither WGN nor TBS are among them. they are national cable channels NOT SUPERSTATIONS.

The ONLY SUPERSTATIONS at this point are

WSBK WWOR WPIX KTLA KWGN

WGN lost its superstation status some time ago.

The page is simply inaaccurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.235.24 (talk) 23:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

TBS Local Feed
Removed a note that Canada has always had the local feed of TBS. This isn't true. For the most part the switchover to the local feed happened in the spring of 2004 just before the rebranding to the current TBS format. To this day, there is still some systems that still receives this channel from a US satellite and thus their feed is NOT the local Atlanta feed that is distributed by Shaw Broadcast Services.

Florida
Note I moved this comment to the references section in the article. Quadzilla99 05:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

WGN not on Comcast in MA
I used to have a different cable provider but now that I have comcast I can not recieve this chanel

Corner Gas already airing. 9/10
I just turned on WGN and saw that Corner Gas is on (6PM MDT). Did they bump it up a week? Trvr3307 00:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Wgn2003 a.jpg
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Prime/Cox Cable in Vegas Market
Growing up with Prime, then Cox, Cable in Las Vegas, NV, WGN was the Chicago feed, and Prime/Cox never blacked out any programming. I remember watching Highlander on Friday night at 10 PM on KVVU, then watching it the next day at 1 PM on WGN, all times PST. After that, WGN aired the episode of Vanishing Son that KVVU aired the Sunday prior. TBS was also the local feed, too, until Cox took over and changed TBS to the SuperStation feed, then, around 2000, Cox changed WGN to the SuperStation feed as well. Prime Cable placing WGN on Channel 9 and KFBT, the old WB station, on Channel 6, didn't help KFBT's ratings, either, since we all watched WB programming 3 hours earlier from the WGN feed. Coffee4binky (talk) 10:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Cox Cable's WGN feed also had Kids WB on Sunday mornings, which replayed the Kids WB Saturday from the day before, as well as Kids WB during the weekdays, just earlier. (For Vegas residents, I mean.) Apple8800 (talk) 19:34, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Tribune / Sinclair merger section
It seems that the last part of the section -- 1.3 -- dealing with Tribune sueing Sinclair for breach of contract is missing ! It ends with "As of January 2019,"

What happened to the rest ?

Just curious. 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 03:52, 20 March 2019 (UTC)


 * It appears that an editor just added "As of January 2019," as a clause that will never turn into a complete sentence, as well as a new section with content in it. See Special:Diff/878969123.
 * I will remove the clause from the article. --AnhDucYang (talk) 22:01, 20 March 2019 (UTC)