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WSNS-TV

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/October 4, 2023 by - Dank (push to talk) 22:49, 5 September 2023 (UTC)



WSNS-TV (channel 44) is a television station in Chicago broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned and operated by the network and shares its studios in the NBC Tower, and its transmitter on the Willis Tower, with WMAQ-TV. WSNS-TV was built as an English-language independent station by the local Essaness Theatres corporation in 1970; it broadcast local sports, most notably the Chicago White Sox, among other local programs. In 1980, the station began broadcasting ON TV, a paid subscription television service with 120,000 subscribers at its height in 1982; the station nearly had its broadcast license revoked by the Federal Communications Commission for its lack of local programming during this time. After ON TV folded in 1985, channel 44 became the city's first full-time Spanish-language TV station, including local newscasts. Telemundo bought WSNS in 1995; NBC bought Telemundo in 2002, leading to the merger of WMAQ-TV and WSNS-TV.
 * Most recent similar article(s): WBPX-TV, November 1, 2022
 * Main editors: Sammi Brie
 * Promoted: 19 August 2023
 * Reasons for nomination:
 * Support as nominator. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 05:03, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Support – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 19:34, 25 August 2023 (UTC)