Tribune Broadcasting

Tribune Broadcasting Company

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Broadcast television radio
Genre	Media company
Predecessor	WGN Incorporated (1924–1966) WGN Continental Broadcasting Company (1966–1981)
Founded	1981; 36 years ago (1981) in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Headquarters	435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Area served	United States
Key people	Peter Liguori (President/CEO, Tribune Media) Larry Wert (President, Tribune Broadcasting)
Parent	Tribune Media
Website	www.tribunemedia.com

Tribune Broadcasting (corporate name: Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC) is an American media company which operates as a subsidiary of Tribune Media, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. The group owns and/or operates 43 broadcast television stations and one radio station throughout the United States; it also holds full or partial ownership of three cable television and two national digital subchannel networks.

Tribune Broadcasting's development originated with the June 1924 purchase of Chicago, Illinois radio station WDAP (720 AM) by the Chicago Tribune. The new owners changed the station's call letters to WGN, to match the Tribune's slogan, "World's Greatest Newspaper." The Tribune would launch a television station in Chicago, WGN-TV (channel 9), in April 1948 as a dual affiliate of CBS and the DuMont Television Network. Two months later, the Tribune's then-sibling newspaper in New York City, the Daily News, established its own television station, WPIX (channel 11) – which launched without a network affiliation as all four broadcast networks at the time (ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont) had already owned other stations in the market.

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