Field Communications
| Private | |
| Industry | Broadcast television |
| Fate | Dissolution |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Defunct | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
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Area served
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 United States |
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Key people
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Marshall Field V, co-CEO Frederick W. (Ted) Field, co-CEO |
| Products | Broadcast television |
| Parent | Field Enterprises |
Field Communications was a division of Field Enterprises, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News. The company owned independent television stations in the United States, with WFLD in Chicago as its largest-market station.
The broadcasting arm of Field Enterprises began in January 1966 with the initial sign-on of WFLD-TV (Channel 32). In 1972, Field sold a majority ownership (about 77.5 percent) of WFLD to Kaiser Broadcasting, owners of KBSC-TV (Channel 52) in Corona, California (serving the Los Angeles and southern California area), WKBG-TV in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (Channel 56 - serving the Boston metropolitan area, and in tandem with the daily newspaper"The Boston Globe"), WKBS-TV in Burlington, New Jersey (Channel 48 serving Philadelphia metro area), WKBF-TV (Channel 61) in Cleveland, WKBD-TV (Channel 50) in Detroit, and KBHK-TV in San Francisco. Field retained the remainder of WFLD's shares (about 22.5 percent), and in return, received a minority stake in Kaiser Broadcasting (also about 22.5 percent).
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