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'Chicago's Very Own' goes national: The rise and fall of the superstation
1 month ago | By WGN TV
As WGN TV celebrates 75 years, we're looking back with a series of stories on the history and the memories
By the 1970s, the era of total dominance by the big three national networks - CBS, ABC, and NBC - was coming to an end, and TV audiences would soon have more choices.
In 1970, just 4.5 million people subscribed to cable. By the end of the decade, that number more than tripled. Cable held enormous potential, but it didn't yet have many programs.
“In the very beginnings of cable TV, they were looking for programming,” said Steve Novak, a longtime producer and director at WGN-TV. “There...
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