15 Facts About Tribune Broadcasting

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC was an American media company which operated as a subsidiary of Tribune Media, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois.

Tribune Broadcasting gained its third television and second radio station in 1960, when it purchased KDAL-TV and KDAL in Duluth, Minnesota from the estate of the late Dalton LeMasurier ; the company would later purchase KCTO in Denver from J Elroy McCaw in 1966.

Tribune Broadcasting operated several local cable television systems from 1977 to 1985.

In 1993, Tribune Broadcasting launched Chicagoland Television, a regional cable news channel for the Chicago area, which originally operated separately from the company's other Chicago media properties until it merged its operations with WGN-TV's news department in 2009.

In November 1994, Tribune Broadcasting formed a partnership with several minority partners, including Quincy Jones, to form Qwest Broadcasting; Qwest operated as a technically separate company from Tribune ; Tribune would later acquire the Qwest stations outright in November 1999.

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In January 1995, Tribune Broadcasting became a partner in The WB Television Network, in a joint venture with the Warner Bros.

Tribune Broadcasting Entertainment was Tribune Broadcasting's television production, syndication and advertising sales subsidiary.

Tribune Broadcasting owned 39 television stations located in 33 markets .

Tribune Broadcasting owned two digital multicast networks: This TV, which airs television series, and Antenna TV, which aired movies and children's programming.

Tribune Broadcasting was seeking retransmission consent payments from DirecTV, which under previous carriage agreements, the company received for carriage of WGN America, but not for its local broadcast stations.

Cablevision accused Tribune Broadcasting of demanding higher carriage fees to be used to help pay off debt, and alleged that it illegally bundled carriage agreements for WPIX and Hartford's WTIC-TV, which the company denied, stating its approach complied with FCC regulations.

At issue are fees Tribune Broadcasting is seeking for carriage of its stations and WGN America.

Tribune Broadcasting said the deal it offered Dish was the same one it has with other pay-TV distributors.

Tribune Broadcasting has been seeking increases for WGN America as part of its plan to transition the channel from one that was highly dependent on reruns and Chicago sports to a network with lots of original programming that can compete with channels such as FX and AMC.

Tribune Broadcasting blocked stations such as WJW, KDAF, WGNO, WTTV, KTLA, KCPQ, WPIX, WGN-TV, and WGN America.