WSNS-TV
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| WSNS-TV | |
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| Chicago, Illinois | |
| Branding | Telemundo Chicago |
| Channels | 44 (UHF) analog, 45 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | Telemundo |
| Owner | NBC Universal |
| Founded | April 5, 1970 |
| Call letters meaning | Essaness (former owner) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1970-1980) ON-TV Subscription Television (1980-1985) Spanish International Network/Univision (1985-1988?) |
| Website | www.telemundochicago.com |
WSNS-TV 44 is the Telemundo affiliate in Chicago, Illinois. It is owned by NBC Universal. Its schedule consists of Spanish newscasts, talk shows, movies, dramas, and talk shows.
[edit] History
The station signed on in April 5, 1970. Harriscope owned 50% of the station; the rest was owned by a consortium, among which was the Essaness TV Corp. (from which the station's call letters arose).
The station programmed an all-news format in its early days. During the day, the station aired an alphanumeric feed of news reports supplied from wire services. By night, the station ran a news bulletin titled "Heart of The News", which featured an anchorwoman reading the news in a provocative manner [1]. That program was short-lived.
By the mid 1970s, the station was running a general entertainment schedule. It was the "also ran" station in the market, running a lot of older cartoons, some off-network sitcoms, old movies and religious shows. WSNS did, however, obtain the broadcast rights to the Chicago White Sox baseball team in 1973 from WFLD, channel 32, and aired their games until 1980.
In 1980, the station added ON-TV subscription television programming after 7 p.m. daily. By 1980 it was running subscription TV after about 5 p.m.. By 1982 it was subscription TV for most of the day with religion a few hours a day. In 1983, WSNS went to ON-TV 24/7.
In July 1985, WSNS dropped ON-TV in favor of the Spanish International Network (which became Univision a few years later). WSNS then switched to Telemundo in the late 1980s, and was sold to Telemundo in the early 1990s.
WSNS was sold to NBC in the late 1990s as part of a group deal. It currently shares its broadcast facilities with sister station WMAQ-TV.
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| Broadcast television in the Chicago market (Nielsen DMA #3) | ||
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WBBM 2 (CBS) - W04CQ 4 (Silent) - WMAQ 5 (NBC) - WLS 7 (ABC) - WGN 9 (The CW) (The Tube on DT2) - WTTW 11 (PBS, Create on DT.2) - WOCK-CA 13 (Azteca América) - W13BQ 13 (DW) - W18AT 18 / W54BK 54 (LeSEA) - WYCC 20 (PBS) - W64CQ 22 (TBN) - WWME-CA 23 (Ind) - WHVI-LP 24 (LeSEA) - WCIU 26 (Ind) - WSPY-LP 30 (A1) - WFLD 32 (Fox) - WEDE-CA 34 (Ind) - WWTO 35 (TBN) - WCPX 38 (i) - WOCH-CA 41 (Ind) - WSNS 44 (TEL) - WFBT-CA 48 (Ind) - WPWR 50 (MNTV) - W54BE 54 (Edu. Ind) - WLFM-LP 55 (Ind) - WYIN 56 (PBS) - WXFT 60 (TFT) - WCHU-LP 61 (MTV3) - WJYS 62 (Ind) - WGBO 66 (UNI) |
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| edit | NBC Universal, Inc. (a subsidiary of General Electric) |
