WFLD
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Chicago, Illinois United States |
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| City | Chicago, IL |
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Digital: 31 (UHF) Virtual: 32 () |
| Affiliations | 32.1 Fox (O&O) 32.2 Light TV |
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Fox Television Stations (Fox Television Stations, Inc.) |
| First air date | January 4, 1966 |
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| Sister station(s) | WPWR-TV |
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| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 475 m (1,558 ft) |
| Facility ID | 22211 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°52′44″N 87°38′10″W / 41.87889°N 87.63611°WCoordinates: 41°52′44″N 87°38′10″W / 41.87889°N 87.63611°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WFLD, virtual channel 32 (UHF digital channel 31), is a Fox owned-and-operated television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and operates as part of a television duopoly with Gary, Indiana-licensed CW-affiliated/MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WPWR-TV (channel 50). The two stations share studio and office facilities located at Michigan Plaza on North Michigan Avenue in the Chicago Loop; WFLD's transmitter is based at the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Loop business district. The station can also be seen on Comcast cable channel 12 in most parts of the Chicago area.
The station first signed on the air on January 4, 1966, as an independent station. WFLD was founded by a joint venture of the parties that each competed individually for the license and construction permit to operate on UHF channel 32. Field Enterprises – owned by heirs of the Marshall Field's department store chain, and publishers of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News – was the station's majority partner (with a 50% interest) and was responsible for managing WFLD's day-to-day operations; they were led by veteran broadcasting executive Sterling C. (Red) Quinlan. The station originally operated from studio facilities located within the Marina City complex on State Street. Channel 32 was christened the "Station of Tomorrow" by an April 1966 Sun-Times article because of its innovative technical developments in broadcasting its signal. It also broadcast news programming from the Sun-Times/Daily News newsroom. From the fall of 1967 to summer of 1970, WFLD aired the final hour of CBS' Saturday daytime schedule from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., in lieu of the network's owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV (channel 2).
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