What is WGN? I know its a channel, but I dont have it, and I never see it on the TV Lineup. Is it a network station?

The far-more common WGN is "Superstation WGN", which is essentially TBS with somewhat older shows, more movies, and Cubs/White Sox/Bulls games.

WGN (WGN9) is also the Chicago-area WB affiliate (only available in the Chicago TV market area). It's mainly just your standard WB affil.

Originally posted by Seth Thrasher
The far-more common WGN is "Superstation WGN", which is essentially TBS with somewhat older shows, more movies, and Cubs/White Sox/Bulls games.

WGN (WGN9) is also the Chicago-area WB affiliate (only available in the Chicago TV market area). It's mainly just your standard WB affil.

Ohh, ok :thanks: :)

Originally posted by Seth Thrasher
The far-more common WGN is "Superstation WGN", which is essentially TBS with somewhat older shows, more movies, and Cubs/White Sox/Bulls games.

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How come I dont get that station?

Originally posted by Rurry007
How come I dont get that station?

Are you sure you don't? I get it here, I had it when I lived in California, it's a pretty nationwide channel.

It might depend on your cable co. maybe they don't want to carry that channel for some reason :)

Originally posted by Topanga
Are you sure you don't? I get it here, I had it when I lived in California, it's a pretty nationwide channel.

It might depend on your cable co. maybe they don't want to carry that channel for some reason :)

Probably, my cable company cuts out tons of channels. It stinks :mad: :(

I get the Superstation version. I watch the Noon and 9pm(1pm and 10pm ET) newscasts sometimes. It used to air Full House several years ago and aired Family Matters up til last year(along with TBS) until it went to ABC Family.

Where I used to live didn't carry the channel either, but it's avaliable in 95% of the country.

Originally posted by Rurry007
Probably, my cable company cuts out tons of channels. It stinks :mad: :(

:mad: That stinks. I love my cable co. they are starting to get the channels the people want, I finally got Soapnet, now I can die Happy :lol:

I would send them an email asking them about it, it can't hurt. :)

Originally posted by Brent88
I get the Superstation version. I watch the Noon and 9pm(1pm and 10pm ET) newscasts sometimes. It used to air Full House several years ago and aired Family Matters up til last year(along with TBS) until it went to ABC Family.

Where I used to live didn't carry the channel either, but it's avaliable in 95% of the country.

Stupid Cablevision, I hate cablevision, it doesnt show any good networks :o

Rurry-

I hear that my cable company, Cox Cable doesn't carry WGN either. we only get it if we order digital cable. I used to get it when i had Satelitte and it is great, i used to watch Will and Grace and Clueless and other sitcoms on it.

Originally posted by factsoflife
Rurry-

I hear that my cable company, Cox Cable doesn't carry WGN either. we only get it if we order digital cable. I used to get it when i had Satelitte and it is great, i used to watch Will and Grace and Clueless and other sitcoms on it.

:eek: WGN doesn't seem like a digital cable type of channel to me. I've always only had it on basic cable. :eek:

My brother has WGN on his DirecTV.

Originally posted by Topanga
:eek: WGN doesn't seem like a digital cable type of channel to me. I've always only had it on basic cable. :eek:

It's on basic cable here too. Channel 11, right in between PBS and NBC.

Originally posted by Brent88
It's on basic cable here too. Channel 11, right in between PBS and NBC.

Yeah it's on our basic cable, channel 16 scrunched between WUAB an independent Channel out of Cleveland OH and TBS, it was funny there for awhile cause of WGN calling themselves "superstation" and TBS was "superstation" :lol:

Originally posted by Topanga
Yeah it's on our basic cable, channel 16 scrunched between WUAB an independent Channel out of Cleveland OH and TBS, it was funny there for awhile cause of WGN calling themselves "superstation" and TBS was "superstation" :lol:

Yeah... I still refer to TBS as TBS Superstation even though they dropped the label. Always have referred to WGN as simply, WGN. :crazy:

If I don't have WGN on my digital cable, WPIX is better than WGN which is owned by WB. Yep! WPIX is a New York station for WB.:)

Originally posted by Brent88
Yeah... I still refer to TBS as TBS Superstation even though they dropped the label. Always have referred to WGN as simply, WGN. :crazy:

:nod:

TBS will always be superstation TBS to me, WGN it's hard to think of it as a superstation, they really don't have any shows I'm interested in to watch :lol:

Originally posted by Topanga
:nod:

TBS will always be superstation TBS to me, WGN it's hard to think of it as a superstation, they really don't have any shows I'm interested in to watch :lol:

TBS: Very Funny sounds stupid. :mad:

Originally posted by BrooklynGuy78
If I don't have WGN on my digital cable, WPIX is better than WGN which is owned by WB. Yep! WPIX is a New York station for WB.:)

Really? WGN is a pretty good station, I remember when they originally aired WB shows, I was sooooo mad when they quit that, then our WB station moved 7th Heaven, Angel and all the good shows to 10 pm, and they changed what days of the week they aired. :rolleyes: :mad:

Originally posted by Brent88
TBS: Very Funny sounds stupid. :mad:

:eek: TBS very funny

that's their logo??? :eek: :lol:

Originally posted by Topanga
:eek: TBS very funny

that's their logo??? :eek: :lol:

Yes, well their slogan. :lol: :rotflmao:

Originally posted by Topanga
Really? WGN is a pretty good station, I remember when they originally aired WB shows, I was sooooo mad when they quit that, then our WB station moved 7th Heaven, Angel and all the good shows to 10 pm, and they changed what days of the week they aired. :rolleyes: :mad:

WGN in Chicago does. It's the WB station for them. :p It's not known as a "Superstation" there either.

Originally posted by Brent88
Yes, well their slogan. :lol: :rotflmao:

:lol: I meant slogan not logo :eek: :rotflmao:

:p

Originally posted by Brent88
WGN in Chicago does. It's the WB station for them. :p It's not known as a "Superstation" there either.

yeah I remember reading that. The funny thing is our WB station is WB and UPN combined:rolleyes: They can't make up their minds with this station, the call letter for the station have even changed over the years :rolleyes: :lol:

Originally posted by Topanga
:lol: I meant slogan not logo :eek: :rotflmao:

:p

Their logo is simply TBS with like a half-moon shaped object. Weird. :crazy:

We don't get WGN here, and we have Cox Cable. I don't think it is on digital either.

I just asked my mom and she said we dont get WGN in our area! :eek: :o

To see the differences of WGN's local and national stations:

WGN 9: Chicago's WB (http://www.wgntv.com)
WGN Superstation (http://www.superstationwgn.com)

Originally posted by Topanga
yeah I remember reading that. The funny thing is our WB station is WB and UPN combined:rolleyes: They can't make up their minds with this station, the call letter for the station have even changed over the years :rolleyes: :lol:

Yeah mine 2. We used to have both UPN and WB seperately, but then Cox in Rhode Island dropped all New York and Massachuesetts networks so we ended up having NO WB. so now our local UPN station airs random WB programs at odd times like 2 am on a Saturday.

I just got it turned on today

I love WGN; I have the network here in Southern California, and watch The Rockford Files, and right now WGN is showing McMillan and Wife:)

anyone else remember the days when WGN used to broadcast the WB series? Like Buffy, Charmed, Dawson's Creek? this was in the late 90's, but at the beginning of the 99-00 TV season, they switched, so my city went Buffy/Charmed-less for a few weeks until we came up with our very own WB channel.

My mom just told me that we dont get WGN in our area, along with Hallmark Channel. :(

Originally posted by Undercover Angel
I love WGN; I have the network here in Southern California, and watch The Rockford Files, and right now WGN is showing McMillan and Wife:)

I watch The Rockford Files on there, too. :) WGN's been around in my area for more than 20 years and fortunately, I've been able to watch it all that time.

Originally posted by little insomniac
I watch The Rockford Files on there, too. :) WGN's been around in my area for more than 20 years and fortunately, I've been able to watch it all that time. I haven't seen WGN since the 1980's. :mad:

Here, the WGN Superstation feed is right on lower-end basic cable, on Ch. 9 (Think about that a second, the significance will come to you...)

As for that WB station that airs UPN content: Until last season, the WB affil available over-the-air (Read: Antenna) here did the same thing...

Yes it's funny we don't have WGN Superstation, but TBS has been channel 11 for a long time.

Originally posted by combsisthebest
Yes it's funny we don't have WGN Superstation, but TBS has been channel 11 for a long time.

Yeah, I dont have WGN Superstation, but I have TBS as Channel 39.

Originally posted by Seth Thrasher
Here, the WGN Superstation feed is right on lower-end basic cable, on Ch. 9 (Think about that a second, the significance will come to you...)

As for that WB station that airs UPN content: Until last season, the WB affil available over-the-air (Read: Antenna) here did the same thing... When I first got TBS in 1978 it was on channel 10 and WGN originally was on channel 8 around 1981 or 1982. Then as I got more channels they moved to higher numbers. This was in NC. When I first moved to PA I didn't get any of these channels and I still don't have WGN back.

Originally posted by Rurry007
Yeah, I dont have WGN Superstation, but I have TBS as Channel 39.

My WGN is channel 16 and TBS is 17, I usually only watch WGN for the Fresh Prince of Bel Air :)

Originally posted by mr roper
I haven't seen WGN since the 1980's. :mad:

ohno: It's unreal to me that your area is without that channel. What a load of bull. Somebody needs to write up a petition so they'll offer it!

Originally posted by little insomniac
ohno: It's unreal to me that your area is without that channel. What a load of bull. Somebody needs to write up a petition so they'll offer it!

I dont get in in my area either. :( What shows do they have?

Originally posted by Rurry007
I dont get in in my area either. :( What shows do they have?

They air:
Rockford Files
Matlock
In the Heat of the Night
Cosby Show
Fresh Prince
Beverly Hillbillies
Happy Days
Home Improvement
Will & Grace
Becker

I may have left something out, but I think that's it

I wish there was a way to combine WGN's local and national programming together, the local programming is no better than any other typical WB station.

However, here's what I would do with WGN's local and national feed, make them into one station (meaning what you see in Chicago is exactly what you see elsewhere). Realistically, I know this would never happen because programming rights, etc., but this is for fantasy purposes.

Weekdays--all times Central
5am WGN Morning News
9am Maury Povich
10am Sharon Osbourne
11am Andy Griffith
11:30 The Beverly Hillbillies
12pm WGN News at Noon
1pm Happy Days
1:30 Celebrity Justice
2pm Street Smarts
2:30 Who Wants to be a Millionaire
3pm Kids WB
5pm Sabrina the Teenage Witch
5:30 Will & Grace
6pm Friends
6:30 Everybody Loves Raymond
7pm WB Primetime
9pm WGN 9 O'Clock News
10pm Becker
10:30 Home Improvement
11pm The Drew Carey Show
11:30 Dharma & Greg
12am Elimidate
12:30 The 5th Wheel
1am Matlock
2am Rockford Files
3am In the Heat of the Night
4am Infomercials

There's no way of that happening here in San Antonio since my cable system where I live I have WGN(the national feed) and the WB Station KRRT-WB35-San Antonio. You can't have 2 WB stations competing against each other with the same lineups.