Talk:WGN America

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[edit] Superstation Status

The article was riddled with reference to WGN as asuperstation. This is inacccurate. It lost superstation status when the cable/satellite feed became different from local feed. Furthermore the statements about WGN being the only superstation covering local sports is false. even if it had not lost this status other superstations like WWOR,WPIX, KTLA broadcast local teams toa national audience. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.235.24 (talk) 01:30, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Reason for Existence?

Why does this page even exist on Wikipedia? It's marked as a stub, and has a little information, but we already have an article on WGN-TV separate from this one that is far more complete and has the same information on it. I recommend we merge the two articles, or turn this one into a redirect to the other, as this one seems superfluous. Schuminweb 04:15, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Superstation is on nationwide see my note below. Quadzilla99 05:56, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

It is a national cable channel not a superstation. There are 5 superstations an neither WGN nor TBS are among them. they are national cable channels NOT SUPERSTATIONS.

The ONLY SUPERSTATIONS at this point are

WSBK WWOR WPIX KTLA KWGN

WGN lost its superstation status some time ago.

The page is simply inaaccurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.235.24 (talk) 23:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TBS Local Feed

Removed a note that Canada has always had the local feed of TBS. This isn't true. For the most part the switchover to the local feed happened in the spring of 2004 just before the rebranding to the current TBS format. To this day, there is still some systems that still receives this channel from a US satellite and thus their feed is NOT the local Atlanta feed that is distributed by Shaw Broadcast Services.

[edit] Florida

Note I moved this comment to the references section in the article. Quadzilla99 05:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WGN not on Comcast in MA

I used to have a different cable provider but now that I have comcast I can not recieve this chanel

[edit] Corner Gas already airing. 9/10

I just turned on WGN and saw that Corner Gas is on (6PM MDT). Did they bump it up a week? Trvr3307 00:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wgn2003 a.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wgn2001 a.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 11:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)