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jerAL · Post by **jerAL** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 7:16 pm

I get WGN, but when I checked the schedule with the satellite menu, I couldn't find any news listed until noon, Pacific time. Do I have my time zones confused?

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:41 pm

That sucks! Why doesn't the Superstation carry it?

Post by **stupidsurgeon27** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:36 pm

Cause they're evil. No news until noon.

-CindyBob

Website · Post by **Teh Dingo** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:59 pm

I'd guess maybe a regional thing...but then why would they show the noon news?

The Sporkman · Post by **The Sporkman** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:59 am

spacedingo @ Aug 19 2004, 03:59 PM wrote: ...but then why would they show the noon news?

Presumably just to tick us off that little bit more. We are witnessing a truly malevolent force at work.

Post by **kaffy©** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:23 am

I'll be taping it since i get the WGN news. and its always on every day from 7 - 9 am

so i guess if any of you want me to make a copy just PM me and let me know

kaffy©

Post by **weird_el** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:38 am

Kaffy© please let us know any juicy details/news after you get a chance to watch it.

CatraDhtem · Post by **CatraDhtem** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:50 am

spacedingo @ Aug 19 2004, 04:59 PM wrote: I'd guess maybe a regional thing...

It is sort of a regional thing. You see, even though it's been a cable "superstation" for the last couple of decades, in Chicago WGN is also the local WB affiliate. For some contractual reason WGN cannot broadcast WB programming nationally (even though my satellite provider has a number of other "superstations" out of Denver and L.A. that do just that), so WGN has to create two separate feeds of programming: one just for Chicago (to show the WB shows), and another for the rest of the country. I guess it's like the reverse rule of why ball games are sometimes "blacked out" on local stations (well, not really, but you get the idea).

But why this would affect the station's own newscasts, I don't know. Perhaps the morning news focuses more on local stories, so they wanted to make it exclusive to the Chicago feed?

lookatthenumbersinIandlaugh · Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:05 am

it says the news is on for me from 5-10 or so on WGN, are you sure it isnt CNN?

and yes I am in the chicago land area

Post by **autrefois** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:13 am

lookatthenumbersinIandlaugh @ Aug 19 2004, 11:05 PM wrote: it says the news is on for me from 5-10 or so on WGN, are you sure it isnt CNN?

and yes I am in the chicago land area

Yes, it is WGN, not CNN.

The WGN morning news is on from 5-9 (not 10). As far as I know, the main guests are always on sometime between 7-9.

Apparently, my mom told me today, they mentioned that the whole week has been dedicated to Weird Al. Today they showed about 1 minute of the Jurassic Park video and the anchors said something to the effect that they hadn't seen it before, but thought it was a really cute video and that Al was very talented. It sounded like they had just shown brief video clips other days this week, so I guess we didn't really miss anything.