WFLD channel 32.1 (RF channel 31) is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Chicago, Illinois. WFLD is co-owned with WPWR-TV (channel 50), Chicago's MyNetworkTV flagship station. WFLD's studios and offices are located in Chicago's Loop neighborhood and its transmitter sits on top of Willis Tower.
WFLD airs over forty hours of news every week, along with airing syndicated first run...
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WFLD channel 32.1 (RF channel 31) is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Chicago, Illinois. WFLD is co-owned with WPWR-TV (channel 50), Chicago's MyNetworkTV flagship station. WFLD's studios and offices are located in Chicago's Loop neighborhood and its transmitter sits on top of Willis Tower.
WFLD airs over forty hours of news every week, along with airing syndicated first run talk/court/reality shows, off-network sitcoms, Fox's primetime network programming and sports.
The station signed on January 4, 1966 from its original studios within the Marina City complex on State Street. Its founding owner was Field Enterprises, which also owned the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News and was owned by heirs of the Marshall Field's department store chain. The station was christened the "Station of Tomorrow" by the Sun-Times in an April 1966 article because of its innovative technical developments in broadcasting its...
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