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WGN-TV, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 19), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the flagship television property of the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media, which also owns radio station WGN (720 AM) and local cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV). WGN-TV maintains studio facilities and offices located on West Bradley Place in Chicago's North Center neighborhood (as such, it is the only major commercial television station in Chicago whose studios are located outside of the downtown business district), and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop.
WGN-TV is also a pioneering superstation, and formerly programmed an alternate feed for cable and satellite subscribers throughout the United States and select areas of Canada. The former "superstation" feed, WGN America, was converted by Tribune into a conventional basic cable network in December 2014 through the channel's removal of all WGN-TV-produced news, sports and event programs and its concurrent addition to cable providers within the Chicago market (including Comcast Xfinity, WOW! and RCN) – in addition to existing its local carriage on the DirecTV and Dish Network satellite services.[1][2][3][4] However, WGN-TV regained national availability as the Chicago area feed was included as part of the initial offerings of Channel Master's LinearTV service, which launched in the spring of 2015.[5]
WGN's longtime slogan, "Chicago's Very Own" (which has been used by the station since it was introduced in 1983), was the basis for a popular image campaign of the 1980s and 1990s, as performed by Chicago native Lou Rawls.
WGN Television began test broadcasts in February 1948 and began regular programming on April 5 with a two-hour special, WGN-TV Salute to Chicago, at 7:45 p.m. that evening. It was founded by the Chicago Tribune – whose slogan "World's Greatest Newspaper" was the basis for the call letters used by the television station and its radio sister. WGN-TV originally held dual primary affiliations with CBS and the DuMont Television Network, sharing both networks with WBKB (channel 4). For its first 13 years on the air, WGN-TV had operated from the Tribune Tower at 435 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago.
Channel 9 lost its CBS affiliation as a sidebar to the February 1953 merger of ABC and United Paramount Theatres; at the time, CBS had purchased the VHF channel 4 license in Chicago (now WBBM-TV, which later moved to channel 2, forcing Phonevision off the air) from United Paramount Theatres – which absorbed WBKB's founding owners, Balaban and Katz in 1949, after a U.S. Supreme Court order forced Paramount Pictures to divest its chain of movie theaters – for $6.75 million, as the newly merged entity could not keep both WBKB and ABC owned-and-operated station WENR-TV (channel 7, now WLS-TV) due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations then enforced that forbade common ownership of two television stations that were licensed to the same market. Following a two-month cancellation clause, all of the CBS programs that WGN-TV had been airing were moved to the rechristened WBBM-TV, leaving channel 9 exclusively with DuMont.
WGN-TV soon became one of DuMont's strongest affiliates, as well as a major production center for that network. Several DuMont programs were produced from the station's facilities, including Chicago Symphony, Chicagoland Mystery Players, Music From Chicago, The Music Show, They Stand Accused, This is Music, Windy City Jamboree and Down You Go. WGN-TV had also telecast performances of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, beginning in 1953, when Fritz Reiner was the orchestra's music director.
The station lost the DuMont affiliation when the network ceased operations on August 6, 1956; at that point, WGN-TV became an independent station. Channel 9 then spent much of the next two decades as the top-rated independent in Chicago, offering a variety of general entertainment programs including movies, sports, off-network reruns and children's programs. For much of its existence, WGN-TV produced a large number of its own programs at its studios. A historic moment in Chicago television occurred when Sheldon Cooper launched The All-Time Hits, a musical variety show that ran for 13 weeks and featured The Buckinghams; the program was broadcast in color. During the late 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[6] In 1957, WGN-TV became one of the first television stations in the Chicago market to broadcast live programming in color.
Notable WGN-TV productions during the 1960s through the 1980s included several incarnations of the immensely popular Bozo's Circus, Ray Rayner and His Friends, Garfield Goose and Friends (which was hosted by Frazier Thomas, who also hosted a popular family movie showcase on the station titled Family Classics), The Mulqueens,[7] and the popular children's educational series The Space Explorers. WGN-TV served as the Chicago affiliate of the United Network for its one month of existence in 1967, airing The Las Vegas Show. From 1974 to 1982, Phil Donahue's syndicated daytime talk show Donahue originated from the WGN-TV studios. In 1975, the agriculture program U.S. Farm Report debuted in national syndication, also originating from WGN-TV's studios.
In 1961, the WGN stations moved to studio facilities on West Bradley Place in the North Center neighborhood, a move undertaken for civil defense concerns in order to provide the station a safe location to broadcast in case of a hostile attack targeting downtown Chicago.[8] WGN radio eventually moved back to North Michigan Avenue in the Pioneer Court extension in 1986,[9] then back into Tribune Tower in October 2012;[10] the television station, however, remains at the Bradley Place facility to this day. In 1968, the Federal Communications Commission barred companies from owning newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same market; the FCC granted the Tribune Company permission to grandfather its combination of the Chicago Tribune, WGN-TV and WGN radio through a cross-ownership waiver. In 2014, Tribune entered into a local marketing agreement with Venture Technologies Group, owners of WKQX-LP, a low-power analog television station on VHF channel 6 which uses a quirk in the FM bandplan to broadcast an audio format on the radio over 87.7 FM; this became a sports talk station that operated as a sister station to WGN radio. The station, which changed its calls to WGWG-LP, was not covered under the FCC restrictions (this issue became moot with the Tribune 's separation from the Tribune Company); Tribune's LMA with WGWG-LP (now WRME-LP) ended on February 23, 2015, when it was transferred to Weigel Broadcasting.
WGN-TV began to be distributed across the United States through cable television in October 1978, after Tulsa, Oklahoma-based United Video Satellite Group uplinked the station's signal via satellite.[11] This signal was picked up by many fledgling cable television providers, as well as directly to satellite dish owners, turning WGN-TV into one of the first superstations, alongside New York City's WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV) and Atlanta's WTBS (now WPCH-TV).
As WGN-TV gained national exposure, the station became vulnerable in the Chicago area and underestimated the ability of UHF competitor WFLD (channel 32, now a Fox owned-and-operated station) to acquire top-rated syndicated programs (such as M*A*S*H, Happy Days and All in the Family). As a result, WFLD edged ahead of WGN-TV in the ratings by the end of 1979. WGN-TV continued with its programming format, competing with WFLD and another UHF independent station, WSNS-TV (channel 44, now a Telemundo owned-and-operated station). WSNS would leave the competition when it affiliated with the subscription television service ONTV during the nighttime hours in 1980, becoming a full-time affiliation in 1982. On November 10, 1984, WGN-TV became an affiliate of the MGM/UA Premiere Network, an film-based ad hoc television network, with the showing of Clash of the Titans.[12]
On May 19, 1988, the FCC passed the Syndication Exclusivity Rights rule (or "SyndEx"), requiring cable providers to black out syndicated programs shown on any out-of-market stations, if a television station obtains the exclusive local rights to air a particular program.[13][14][15] When the law went into effect on January 1, 1990, WGN-TV launched a separate national feed supplied with alternate programming that no stations claimed exclusive rights to in any market (along with sporting events, newscasts and several shows airing on WGN-TV that were also not subject to exclusivity claims). In September 1994, the station moved The Bozo Show from its longtime weekday morning slot to Sunday mornings, where it remained and was eventually reformatted to fit the FCC's educational programming guidelines until the program was controversially discontinued by station management in 2001.[16]
On November 2, 1993, the Warner Bros. Television division of Time Warner and the Tribune Company announced the formation of The WB; through its part-ownership of the network, Tribune signed deals to affiliate the majority of the company's independent stations with the network.[17][18] Even though its parent company would be a partner in The WB, WGN-TV had initially planned to remain an independent station due to concerns by station management with balancing a network affiliation and fulfilling the station's sports broadcast commitments.[19][20] However, despite that reason, the station competed with WPWR-TV (channel 50) to become the Chicago charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN), another planned network founded by Chris-Craft/United Television in partnership with Paramount Television; UPN opted to sign an affiliation agreement with WPWR on November 10, 1993.[21]
WGN-TV then reversed course on its earlier decision to turn down the WB affiliation, and signed an affiliation agreement with that network one month later on December 3, 1993; prior to the signing of the agreement, the network had planned to affiliate with competing independent WGBO-TV (channel 66), which instead joined Univision around the time of The WB's launch.[22][23] As part of the agreement, WGN would carry The WB's primetime schedule (and upon its September 1995 debut, Kids' WB children's programming) on its national superstation feed, with the purpose of making the network available to areas of the United States where The WB did not have an affiliate early on.[24]
WGN-TV became a charter affiliate of The WB when it launched on January 11, 1995. Channel 9 only aired the network's primetime programming until 2004; the Kids' WB weekday and Saturday blocks aired locally on former Univision affiliate WCIU-TV (channel 26), which had converted into an English-language independent station days before The WB's launch, through a separate deal reached on February 19, 1995.[25][26] As was the case with other WB-affiliated stations during the network's early years, WGN-TV initially still essentially programmed as a de facto independent station. WGN's programming upon becoming a WB affiliate remained unchanged, as the network had only broadcast prime time shows on Wednesday nights at its launch and would not carry six nights a week of programming until September 1999 (running Sunday through Fridays). Feature films filled the time period leading into the station's late-evening newscast on nights when network programs did not air, eventually being relegated to Saturdays by 1999.
The WB expanded its over-the-air affiliate coverage over time, and launched a cable-only affiliate group for areas where it could not align with an over-the-air station; this made using the superstation feed as a default affiliate no longer necessary as a result, leading to the network's October 1999 request that WGN stop carrying The WB's programming outside of the Chicago market.[27][28] In 2000, WGN-TV constructed a new newsroom on the eastern portion of its studio facility, increasing the building's space to 29,000 square feet (the original newsroom was converted into the station's weather center).[8] In 2004, WGN-TV began broadcasting Chicago Cubs, White Sox and Bulls home games in high definition.
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner's Warner Bros. unit and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN. In their place, the companies would combine the respective programming of the two networks to create a new "fifth" network called The CW.[29][30] On that same date, The CW signed WGN-TV as the network's Chicago affiliate as part of a ten-year agreement that saw Tribune Broadcasting sign 16 of its 18 other WB-affiliated stations at the time to serve as the network's charter stations.[30] WGN switched to The CW when it launched on September 18, 2006 (WGN America never carried The CW's programming during its final years as WGN-TV's superstation feed, as the network has sufficient broadcast coverage through over-the-air stations, digital multicast channels and cable-only affiliates negating the need for WGN America to provide The CW with additional nationwide coverage).
On April 2, 2007, Chicago investor
As a result of its carriage by Canadian cable and satellite providers, WGN-TV provides CW network programs to most areas of Canada that are located farther away from the U.S. border and therefore may be out of reach from the over-the-air signals of other CW affiliates from American cities located near the Canadian border. WGN's sports output is also available in Canada through these means, as complete blackouts of programming whose rights are owned by Canadian broadcasters only apply to U.S. specialty channels carried in Canada, and not over-the-air channels. However, simultaneous substitution rules may still apply to CW programming that is also being aired by Canadian terrestrial channels. The WGN feed as at times been used for NHL center ice on some systems. Due to the channel's conversion from a superstation into a basic cable channel the day prior, Tribune Broadcasting sent notice on December 15, 2014, that it would terminate all national distribution rights for WGN America within Canada, effective January 1, 2015.[127] While the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) had approved the Chicago station's broadcast signal and its national cable feed for carriage on any domestic multichannel video programming distributor (including cable, satellite, IPTV and MMDS providers), the move was likely due to genre protection rules then enforced by the Commission that prohibited general entertainment programming formats by domestic or foreign cable channels. WGN-TV's distribution in the country was not affected by the change, as it is still authorized for domestic distribution as a superstation.
In Canada, WGN-TV is available on most cable television providers as well as on satellite providers Bell TV and Shaw Direct, typically as part of a la carte superstation packages available to subscribers of premium cable channels (such as The Movie Network and its sister service The Movie Network Encore, Movie Central, Super Channel and Encore Avenue). Bell TV has always carried the Chicago area feed, in lieu of the station's now-former superstation feed; however, Shaw Direct and many cable providers in that country replaced WGN America with WGN-TV/Chicago on January 17, 2007, due to Shaw Broadcast Services (the primary supplier of the WGN superstation feed in Canada) switching the WGN feed distributed in that country from the superstation feed to the Chicago area signal.
WGN-TV is the originating station for the Illinois Lottery, whose twice daily drawings are held at the station's Bradley Place studios. WGN-TV lost the rights to the Illinois Lottery drawings to Fox-owned WFLD in 1987, and then reacquired the rights from CBS-owned WBBM-TV in 1994.[123][124] Except for instances in which the evening drawing could not air due to sports clearance restrictions that prevented news simulcasts from airing outside of Chicago, all drawings (including those of the multi-state Mega Millions and Powerball) were simulcast on WGN America, which until they were dropped by the channel on December 12, 2014, made Illinois the only state-run lottery in the U.S. whose drawings are broadcast nationwide.[125][126]
In addition to its newscasts, WGN-TV also produces other local non-news or topical programs; these include public affairs programs People to People (hosted by anchor Micah Materre, covering community events and major local and national news stories from the past week) and Adelante, Chicago (hosted by anchor Lourdes Duarte, featuring topical discussions and feature segments focusing on Chicago's Hispanic community), which air bi-weekly on Saturday mornings; and lifestyle program Chicago's Best (hosted by Brittney Payton and Elliott Bambrough, focusing on cuisine, attractions and events throughout Chicago).[120] In addition, the station broadcasts several local events including the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade,[121] and the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia (by arrangement with its MyNetworkTV-affiliated sister station in that market, WPHL-TV); WGN-TV previously held rights to the Bud Billiken Parade from 1978 to 2012, with WLS-TV (which had also been airing the parade since 1984) gaining primary rights to the broadcast beginning in 2013.[122]
On October 1, 2012, WGN-TV aired a Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and the Dallas Cowboys locally (NFL rules require national games aired by cable networks to be syndicated to broadcast stations in the participating teams' home markets). Although WLS-TV has right of first refusal to MNF due to its corporate parent The Walt Disney Company's majority ownership of ESPN, WLS passed on carrying the game in order to broadcast Dancing with the Stars live instead.[119]
When permitted under its contracts, WGN America occasionally aired national simulcasts of WGN's sports programming. In May 2014, Tribune announced that it would no longer carry WGN Sports telecasts on WGN America beginning in 2015. Tribune Media president and CEO Peter Liguori cited limited viewership and advertising revenue generated from the sports broadcasts relative to its expense (the Cubs package cost five times as much for rights fees alone as the revenue it brought in), and his personal dislike of the Cubs in particular, as the reasoning for the change.[118]
WGN Sports has historically had a long relationship with the Chicago Cubs, dating to the two organizations' mutual ownership under the Tribune Company from 1981 to 2008. In November 2013, the team exercised an option to terminate its existing deal with WGN after the 2014 season (it was originally set to end in 2022), and demanded a higher-valued contract lasting through the 2019 season. On January 7, 2015, WGN-TV announced that it would maintain broadcast rights to 45 Cubs games per-season through the 2019 season, all of which would air within the Chicago market; the remaining games are aired by Comcast SportsNet Chicago and ABC owned-and-operated station WLS-TV.[116][117]
Throughout its history, WGN-TV has had a long association with Chicago sports. Each of the city's major professional sports franchises, along with several local collegiate teams, have had their games regularly televised on channel 9. WGN-TV maintains contracts with the Chicago Cubs, White Sox, Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks for the right to broadcast their games (with some local television rights shared with Comcast SportsNet Chicago); due to WGN's network affiliation contracts that limit the number of programming preemptions annually, some games produced by the station may instead air locally on WPWR-TV (certain game telecasts produced by WGN-TV had previously aired on WCIU-TV from 1999 to 2014). WGN-TV also distributes its telecasts of White Sox and Bulls games to television stations in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa that are within each team's designated market area (including sister stations WHO-DT in Des Moines and WQAD in Davenport, Iowa, which both carry games on digital subchannels; and fellow CW affiliate WISH-TV in Indianapolis).[113][114][115]
In addition to providing weather forecasts for WGN-TV, the WGN Weathercenter Team also provides forecasts for the Chicago Tribune, WGN (720 kHz) and CLTV.
In the May 2015 local Nielsen ratings, WGN's newscasts placed third overall among Chicago's television stations. The 9:00 p.m. newscast dominated over that of its sole prime time news competitor WFLD with a 4.3 rating (up 5% from the May 2014 sweeps period) and placed first in the timeslot across all key demographics (including adults, men and women ages 25–54, and adults 18-49), in addition to beating WBBM-TV's 10:00 p.m. newscast for third place among the Chicago market's late-evening newscasts. The morning newscast tied (with WLS-TV) in all demographics at 5:00 and 6:00 a.m., second in total viewers at 7:00 a.m. and first among major age demos for the final four hours of the broadcast; while the midday newscast beat the WLS-TV talk show Windy City Live in all key demographics during the 11:00 a.m. The station also placed second among the early-evening newscasts in all younger demographics (behind WLS-TV) with a 50% increase in viewership at 4:00 p.m. compared to the syndicated programming that filled that hour in May 2014.[73] In the February 2015 local ratings, the 9:00 p.m. newscast placed first among the market's prime time newscasts with a 5.0 rating, which although down a share of 0.3 compared to February 2014, was still ahead of WFLD's 2.5 rating for its late newscast.[74]
The station's 9:00 p.m. newscast usually receives significantly higher viewership than WFLD's competing newscast in that slot, despite the latter's Fox programming lead-in, and generally has a larger audience than the 10:00 p.m. newscast on CBS-owned WBBM-TV. The WGN Morning News also draws in a sizeable number of viewers in the Chicago market, often coming in first place overall, over WFLD's morning news program Good Day Chicago.
For unknown reasons, the superstation feed never cleared the 11:00 a.m. hour of the midday newscast, the early-evening and weekend morning newscasts that were added by WGN-TV between 2008 and the start of WGN America's conversion into a conventional cable channel. From 2008 to 2014, WGN-TV's news anchors referenced the WGN America telecast at the start of the news simulcasts on weekdays (except in instances when a newscast was preempted by the superstation feed). All news simulcasts were dropped from WGN America on December 13, 2014, although some cable providers carrying the channel on their limited basic programming tiers continued to simulcast the first two hours of the weekday morning newscast in the interim until carriage agreements were amended to allow the national WGN to move to their expanded basic tiers.
From 1978 until the channel's conversion into a conventional cable network in 2014, WGN America carried select local news and public affairs programs from WGN-TV. As WGN-TV's superstation feed, it originally simulcast the first incarnation of the 10:00 p.m. newscast, and then the current prime time newscast when it launched in March 1980, as well as Nightbeat and the previous incarnation of the station's weekend morning newscasts it produced during the 1990s. From 1990 until the program was dropped from the channel on January 30, 2014, WGN-TV's nightly 9:00 p.m. newscast was occasionally preempted outside of Chicago if rights issues prevent a sports telecast that was scheduled to start at or run past 9:00 p.m. Central Time from being cleared for broadcast on WGN America[72]). The midday newscast was also occasionally preempted – albeit, far less often – due to Cubs or White Sox games starting on WGN-TV/WGN America at 12:00 p.m. local time. Syndication exclusivity rules on paid segments featured within the newscast (as WGN-TV's sales department negotiates appearances and terms, which would resulted in the charging of a higher rate if the segments aired nationally) reportedly resulted in the initial removal of the WGN Morning News from WGN America in September 1996 (the only known incidence in which SyndEx rules resulted in a news program's preemption on cable providers outside of its primary broadcast area); simulcasts of the WGN Morning News returned to the national channel on February 3, 2014, when WGN America began airing the 4:00 a.m. hour.
WGN first launched an early-evening newscast on September 15, 2008, when it premiered the WGN Evening News, a half-hour program at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Fridays.[59] The early-evening newscast expanded to one hour (starting at 5:00 p.m.) on October 5, 2009,[67] and then to Saturday and Sunday evenings on July 12, 2014;[55][68] the weekday editions of the newscast were later expanded to include a second hour (starting at 4:00 p.m.) two months later on September 8, 2014.[69] On October 5, 2015, the station restored a 10:00 p.m. newscast – which only airs Monday through Fridays – to its schedule after 35 years.[70][71]
On November 1, 2007, WGN debuted a new custom news music package Chicago's Very Own by 615 Music (which shares its name with a John Hegner-composed news theme that the station used from 1993 to 1997). On July 19, 2008, WGN-TV became the third television station in the Chicago market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition (as of July 2010, WGN-TV is the first station in the market to broadcast all locally originated portions of its newscasts, including live field reports, in HD; this is in contrast to the other major English-language news stations in Chicago, which all broadcast in-studio segments in HD and some or all of their live field footage in 16:9 widescreen standard definition).
The station dropped its weekday morning children's programs on September 6, 1994, replacing them with the then one hour-long WGN Morning News; that newscast gradually expanded over time: first to two hours in January 1996, then to three hours from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. eight months later, with half-hour expansions in January 2001 (to 5:30 a.m.), January 2004 (to 5:00 a.m.), August 16, 2010 (to 4:30 a.m.),[62] and July 11, 2011 (to 4:00 a.m.),[63] with an hour-long expansion (to 10:00 a.m.) on September 3, 2013.[64][65] In July 1996, WGN-TV began using a Eurocopter AS350 B2 helicopter for newsgathering, "Skycam 9," which is used for certain breaking news events and traffic reporting.[66]
In 1984, WGN debuted an hour-long midday newscast at noon each Monday through Friday, originally under the title Newscope. The midday newscast would eventually expand to 90 minutes (starting at 11:30 a.m.) on September 15, 2008,[59] and then to two hours (at 11:00 a.m.) on October 5, 2009.[60] The station made its first foray into weekend morning news with the debut of hour-long 8:00 a.m. newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays in 1992 (an unusual situation considering that the weekday morning newscast would not debut for another two years); the Sunday edition was cancelled in September 1994 – concurrent with the move of The Bozo Show to Sunday mornings due to the launch of the WGN Morning News in the program's weekday morning timeslot; the Saturday edition eventually followed suit in 1998. Weekend morning newscasts returned on October 2, 2010, with the debut of hour-long editions at 6:00 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.[61]
Since the reformatting as a prime time newscast, WGN-TV has been the ratings leader in the 9:00 p.m. timeslot, with or without news competition in the arena. In the spring of 1988, however, The Nine O'Clock News gained competition when Fox owned-and-operated station WFLD – which launched its news department in August 1987 with the premiere of half-hour 7:00 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts – consolidated those programs into a single broadcast that went up against WGN's established newscast at 9:00 p.m.[58] Although WFLD aggressively marketed its fledgling newscast towards younger audiences and as having a fresher style compared to WGN's more traditional news format, viewers remained loyal to channel 9, which has remained #1 in the ratings at 9:00 ever since. For this reason, WFLD moved back its prime time newscast to an earlier timeslot in September 1988, leaving WGN as the only 9:00 newscast in the Chicago market; the two stations would become competitors again in September 1989, when WFLD reverted to placing its newscast up against WGN's in the 9:00 slot, in anticipation of the planned expansion of Fox's prime time schedule.
News has played an important role on WGN-TV since the station's beginnings, due in part to its ties to the Chicago Tribune. From the station's sign-on, WGN produced a nightly late evening newscast as well as Nightbeat, a 15-minute overnight newscast (by the time the program was canceled in 1983, Nightbeat usually served as the lead-out of the station's late evening movie presentations). In 1965, WGN-TV introduced the first news anchor team, Gary Park and Jim Ruddle. On March 10, 1980, WGN-TV debuted the first hour-long primetime newscast in the Midwest, when it moved its half-hour 10:00 p.m. newscast (then titled John Drury and Newsnine) to 9:00 p.m. and expanded it to one hour, relaunching it as The Nine O'Clock News. The second half-hour of the program was dropped on June 9, 1980, with the newscast being accompanied at 9:30 p.m. by the nationally syndicated Independent Network News, which was produced by sister station WPIX in New York City; INN was paired with the local prime time newscast until the national program's cancellation in June 1990.
WGN-TV presently broadcasts 61 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with eleven hours on weekdays and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays);[55] in regards to the number of hours devoted to locally produced news programming, it is the highest newscast output of any television station in Chicago and the state of Illinois. In addition, the station produces Instant Replay, a 20-minute sports highlight program that airs on Sunday evenings during the final 20 minutes of the 9:00 p.m. newscast and is hosted by longtime sports director Dan Roan. Since July 8, 2010, CLTV airs live half-hour editions of WGN-TV's 9:00 p.m. newscast on certain nights in which WGN-TV is scheduled to telecast a sports event being held on the West Coast at 9:00 p.m. (an additional half-hour live newscast then airs following the game on WGN-TV).[56] WGN-TV's news department is notable for the longevity of its on-air news staff, with many of its news anchors having worked for channel 9 for at least ten years. WGN-TV is also the largest television station by market size that is a broadcast partner in the WeatherBug real-time automated weather observation network.[57]
Prior to the effective separation of the two services in December 2014, WGN-TV and its superstation feed-turned-basic cable channel WGN America had vastly different program offerings due to syndication exclusivity rules; although the local and national feeds initially shared a significant amount of common programming after the SyndEx law was implemented, WGN-TV and WGN America's schedules became increasingly disparate during the 1990s and 2000s. By 2013, the only WGN-TV programs that Tribune held full-signal national broadcast rights to air on WGN America included local newscasts and sports programming, select news specials and special events (such as the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade and the Mummer's Parade); public affairs programs People to People and Adelante, Chicago; a limited inventory of off-network syndicated reruns; religious programs Singsation!, Discover the Truth and Tomorrow's World; and select feature films (which aired in different timeslots from those on WGN-TV/Chicago). Likewise, WGN-TV did not carry WGN America's original drama series Salem or Manhattan outside of promotional preview promos (as a result, WGN America's original programming is only viewable in the Chicago market by subscribers of DirecTV and Dish Network, though WGN America has also made arrangements to stream both series through Hulu).[54]
Due to its news-intensive schedule, WGN airs only four hours of syndicated programs within its weekday daytime schedule, an extremely low amount for a CW-affiliated station (whereas most stations affiliated with the network fill their daytime schedules with tabloid, talk, and/or court shows, with no local news programming in between). Syndicated programs on WGN-TV (as of September 2015) include Maury, Crime Watch Daily, Celebrity Name Game, Elementary, and Friends.[53] WGN-TV has been one of The CW's higher-rated affiliates in terms of viewership, often drawing more viewers than Fox-owned WFLD, even in prime time despite the latter's Fox programming.
WGN-TV airs the entire CW network schedule; however, since September 2013, it has aired The Bill Cunningham Show – which airs as part of The CW Daytime – one hour earlier (at 2:00 p.m.) than the network's other Central Time Zone affiliates, aligning with its airtime in the Eastern Time Zone. Due to the station's sports broadcast commitments, The CW's weekday daytime and prime time programs are subject to preemption if a sports telecast is scheduled during network programming hours; due to programming makegoods required by the network in its affiliation contracts, the pre-empted programs are tape delayed to air later that week with prime time shows usually rescheduled on Saturday and/or Sunday evenings as The CW does not offer any primetime programming on weekends.
In Chicago's far northern suburbs and rural areas to the north and west, the signal of WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin (which also transmits on digital channel 19) interferes with reception of WGN-TV, particularly in Kane, Lake, Boone and McHenry counties. WGN-TV also interferes with the signal of Grand Rapids sister station WXMI, requiring the latter outlet to maintain a digital translator station on channel 17 from Muskegon to address this interference. WOTV in Battle Creek, Michigan transmits next to WXMI on channel 20, resulting in additional multi-channel interference.
WGN-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 19.[48][49] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 9. Though not a participant in the SAFER Act, WWME-CA (channel 23) simulcast WGN-TV's 9:00 p.m. newscasts (except in the event of sports delays) and WMAQ-TV (channel 5)'s morning and early evening newscasts until July 12 to provide an analog "lifeline" for viewers that were unprepared for or who had reception issues following the digital transition.[50][51][52]
On May 13, 2013, Tribune Broadcasting announced that it would replace Weigel Broadcasting (which like Tribune, is headquartered in Chicago and decided to leave the joint venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to concentrate on the similarly formatted movie channel Movies! and its existing classic television network Me-TV) as a partner in This TV on November 1 of that year. As a result, the network's Chicago affiliation moved to WGN-TV on that date on a new 9.3 digital subchannel.[43][45][46][47]
The station's 9.2 digital subchannel originally carried The Tube Music Network from 2006 until it shut down in October 2007, when the subchannel switched to a simulcast of WGN-TV's main channel. In June 2008, the subchannel became an affiliate of LATV.[44] The LATV affiliation moved to a subchannel of low-power station WOCK-CD (channel 13) in July 2010. The subchannel became a charter affiliate of Tribune-owned Antenna TV on January 1, 2011.
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On July 10, 2013, Tribune announced plans to spin off its publishing division into a separate company. Once the split was finalized on August 4, 2014, ending the station's co-ownership with the Tribune after 66 years, WGN-TV and WGN radio remained with the renamed Tribune Media Company (which retains all non-publishing assets, including the broadcasting, digital media and Media Services units), while its newspapers (including the Chicago Tribune) became part of the similarly named Tribune Publishing Company.[38][39] Additionally in December 2013, the station gained new sister stations in nearby markets as part of Tribune's purchase of the Local TV station group[40] – ABC affiliate WQAD in Davenport, Iowa and Fox affiliate WITI in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – both of which had already shared news stories from their markets with WGN-TV as part of an existing content and broadcast management agreement between Local TV and Tribune.
On October 13, 2008, WGN-TV began a partnership with WGN radio to provide weather forecasts for the station,[34] it replaced The Weather Channel as a content partner, as the cable network ended its ten-year forecast partnership with WGN radio on that date. On February 4, 2009, Tribune Broadcasting announced it would merge CLTV's operations with channel 9's news department[35][36] (in addition to sharing resources with WGN-TV, CLTV also shares newsgathering resources with the Chicago Tribune). In 2009, WGN-TV began streaming its weekday midday and 5:00 p.m. newscasts live on its website. On February 22, 2010, WGN-TV became the first television station in the Chicago market to allow iPhone users to watch live streams of its newscasts; the 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. block of the WGN Morning News, the midday and 5:00 p.m. newscasts were initially available for streaming to iPhone users; at present, all newscasts are streamed through the station's website and on Apple devices, though sports segments are blacked out (presented only with the audio feed) due to rights restrictions with the major sports leagues.[37]
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NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc., the nation's largest financial institution, on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings of a record $5.31 billion, or $1.02 a share, up 13 percent from a year ago and handily beating analysts' estimates.
Strength in retail banking offset weaknesses in capital markets and bond trading, the New York-based bank said.
Profits in the July-September quarter compared with earnings of $4.7 billion, or 90 cents a share, in the same period a year earlier.
Analysts had projected third-quarter profits of 99 cents a share.
Revenues for the third quarter were $20.5 billion, up 6 percent from $19.4 billion a year ago.
"Our third quarter results demonstrate the benefits of our diversified business platform, as strength in our consumer businesses offsets the impact of sluggish capital markets activity," chief executive Charles Prince said in a statement accompanying the results.
He said the consumer business "delivered record results," with growth in credit card income, consumer finance and retail banking.
And, in response to recent regulatory problems in Japan, Prince emphasized that Citigroup was putting more focus on values.
"Importantly, we continued to take numerous steps toward our goal of continually improving the way we do business and becoming the most respected financial services company in the world," Prince said. "During this year, we have strengthened the independence and capabilities of our internal control and compliance structure, improved how we manage our businesses, and intensified communication with employees about the kind of company we aspire to be."
Last month, Japanese regulators ordered Citigroup to close down its private banking operations for "severe legal violations." Citibank Japan issued an apology and said it will work to prevent a recurrence of the violations.
For the first nine months of the year, Citigroup reported profits of $11.73 billion, or $2.24 a share, down from earnings of $13.09 billion, or $2.51 a share, in 2003. This year's results include a $4.95 billion charge related to the settlement of charges for Citigroup's role in the WorldCom Inc. bankruptcy and an increase in litigation reserves.
For the first nine months of the year, revenue totaled $64.3 billion, up 12 percent from $57.29 billion in 2003.
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B.o.B and Lil Wayne cooked up a hit back in September when they dropped "Strange Clouds," the lead single from Bobby Ray's sophomore album. Now that it's gotten some burn on the radio, the two linked back up to shoot a music video for the acclaimed single. Check out some of the photos from the set above.
Not much can be seen in the photos, including the two stars, but the setting of the video does give you a feel for the single's visual accompaniment. For more insight, see what the rapper-turned-pop star had to say about the video:
With the video for "Strange Clouds," we wanted to embody the whole concept of the song and album. The album embodies everything I love about science fiction and bringing it to the 'hood. It's about bridging those two worlds together. The video is about strange clouds accumulating in the hood and how it's creating an uproar. I'm basically narrating throughout the video.
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'Matt Damon and Heath Ledger will portray the early life of the celebrated fairy-tale authors, imagining them as a pair of con artists who journey across Europe performing bogus exorcisms until they encountered an actual supernatural threat.'
The film will also star Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, and Lena Headey.
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"I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM."
Chris Isaak
Maybe you haven't noticed, but AM radio has pretty much sucked the last twenty years or so. Maybe you didn't notice because you weren't listening. A lot of people aren't, and the FCC is out to change that. The FCC? You bet – this isn't your father's FCC. We're so used to hearing "FCC" and "restrictions" in the same breath, that broadcasters were pleasantly surprised last October when the FCC announced an "AM Revitalization" initiative.
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Gilbert Arenas replaced the injured Al Thornton in the lineup on Thanksgiving and was the lone sweet helping of cranberry sauce in an otherwise turkey of a game for the Wiz. But Gil? Gil's holding it down like a 40-year-old mom lookin' way better than most of your 20-year-old friends. He's started the last seven games, averaging 3.1 3pm/20 pts/4.6 rbd/6.6 ast/1.8 stl. Really, the only place he's not excelling is in his shot efficiency (.424) but if you expected much better from ol' Gil, you don't know ol' Gil. But the news here is that this Gil does resemble the old one. No, he's not the top 6 Hibachi from five years ago, but he lasted until the sixth round in most drafts and since his debut on November 5, he's looked fine. Healthy. Sane. Gunless. And this is a great thing, maybe the best thing for fantasy owners. Not only is a team with a healthy Arenas as its sixth pick a force to be reckoned with, but the league – your league, other leagues, all leagues – are a more fun place with this guy playing.
Here's some leftover stuff(ing) from last night:
Psyche your face! As the turkey's tryptophan tends to grab hold of me for days at a time, there won't be an Add/Drop post this week. Stop your whimpering or you're getting smacked like Fredo in 'The Godfather.' "You can act like a man!" Act like men, avoid picking up Pistons this weekend, David Lee will bounce back sooner than later so don't trade him for a matinee of the new Cher movie and when in doubt, the person getting the best player in the trade is usually the one winning the trade. I'll be manning the comments, so feel free to drop those all you want. Have a great weekend, snitches!
No for real, here's what else went down in fantasy basketball last night:
Al Thornton – Likely to miss a few games after tweaking his ankle on Tuesday. Tweaking is the technical term for what he did. You may know the injury better as "messed up" or "jacked."
? Nick Young – If you drafted Ben Gordon or Rip Hamilton and want a pure scorer who doesn't suck at purely scoring this season, go for Shannon Brown. If someone already snatched him up, grab C.J. Miles. And if someone already snatched him up … well, Young dropped 20 last night and has scored 18+ in five of his last six games, but in the time you spent reading this, someone probably snatched him up too.
Andray Blatche – Poked in both eyes in the third quarter and never returned. He was the luckiest of all Wizards, as he didn't have to see the remainder of the thrashing his team took from the Hawks. Unfortunately, he'll probably regain his eyesight in time to see up-close what the Magic has for 'em.
Francisco Garcia – Sat out with a cold. Speaking of cold, FraGa Rock is averaging 6.4 point and 0.7 treys in his last seven games after being one of the foremost chic picks in early November and averaging 2 treys and 14.3 ppg. Looking back, that's about as chic as a Hawaiian shirt and L.A. Gears.
Tyreke Evans – His .429 season FG% doesn't look so bad when you compare it to the 9-for-37 (.243) he's shot in the last three games. He's not hurt, he's getting minutes, he's just cold. And while he's far from a bust, if you can find someone who thinks 'Reek' is still a top 30 player in this league, go ahead and make a trade that punishes him for thinking that.
Delonte West – West's hand injury may be bad enough that he misses the rest of the season. If it happens, Nate Robinson becomes more than the little guy in the locker room making Shaq reach all the high stuff.
Marvin Williams – Since returning from injury, Williams has averaged 24 mpg/6.6 pts/3.4 rbd over seven games. Don't drop him in favor of a Piston, but almost anyone else would be a better option at this point.
Eric Bledsoe – 6/3/5 in 31 minutes. Yeah, I'm all done with him.
Blake Griffin – The 25/15 is nice, but the five dimes and 11-for-15 from the line is like a Christmas miracle on Thanksgiving. Side note: Does Thanksgiving have its own miracles? I mean, I guess pilgrims not detonating all the Native Americans with their muskets counts as a miracle, but I was thinking more in the vein of Baron-Davis-suiting-up-and-dropping-40-and-15-on-the-Kings kind of miracle. No? Darn.


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QOTD: Madge Didn't Get Off From Reading "Fifty Shades Of Grey"
Since Madge knows sex and knows erotica, Billboard asked her if she's spent any time with the Fifty Shades of Shit book. Madge has read it and reading it felt like reading a book on how to grow hydrangeas. It did nothing for her. That shit is preschool playground stuff to her. Madge says that book is for virgins, and it's also really unrealistic, because according to her, Christian Grey spends way too much time with a mouthful of Steele poon.
Yes, I have. It's pulp fiction. It's not very sexy, maybe for someone who has never had sex before. I kept waiting for something exciting and crazy to happen in that red room thing, and I was like, "Hmm, a lot of spanking." I also thought, "This is so unrealistic because no guy goes down on a girl that much." I'm sorry, but no one eats pussy as much as the guy in that book.
Yes, because a piece of Twilight fanfiction about a 27-year-old self-made billionaire who gets into a sex contract with a 21-year-old college newspaper writer who says "crap" all the time is supposed to be as realistic as possible. I don't know how much pussy Christian Grey eats in that book and I also don't know if Madge is right about dudes not licking the box a lot. But my guess is that many of her boy toys don't go down on her all the time because they heard a tale during their travels. They heard that when you go down on Madonna, her muscled-up labia lips grab onto your tongue and as you scream, her powerful cooch sucks in your soul and youth. That's probably why. But seriously, how can dudes eat Madge's pussy when they've got a ball gag stuffed in their mouth and she's pegging them?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Kike Hernandez and Yasiel Puig each hit two-run homers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals 7-2 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Hernandez's blast off Stephen Strasburg in the fifth inning put the Dodgers up 3-2. Yasmani Grandal also homered off Strasburg (5-4), who allowed three runs and five hits over 6 2/3 innings with seven strikeouts.
Alex Wood (1-4) pitched six innings, allowing just three hits and two earned runs. Wood came out to start the seventh, but returned to the clubhouse after showing some discomfort during his warm-up tosses.
Trea Turner homered for Washington, which swept Arizona last weekend and then went five days without playing a full game because of rain before getting swept by the Dodgers.
Los Angeles, after losing six consecutive games, has now won four straight overall and five of six over Washington this season.
Washington's Juan Soto, at 19 the youngest active player in the majors, made his debut in the eighth as a pinch-hitter and struck out against Erik Goeddel.
The Dodgers added two runs in the ninth. Josh Fields recorded the final four outs for his second save of the season.
Soto played for three teams in the minors this season and hit a combined .362 with 14 homers and 52 RBIs. He became the first 19-year-old to make his major league debut since Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias in 2016. The only previous Nationals player to reach the big leagues at 19 was Bryce Harper in 2012. The Nats' outfield has been hit hard by injuries, most recently Howie Kendrick's ruptured Achilles tendon on Saturday, which helped to clear a path for Soto. "He's going to get a chance to play," manager Dave Martinez said. "I want to put him in situations where he can succeed."
Dodgers: Los Angeles placed RHP Rich Hill on the 10-day disabled list a day after a blister burst on his left middle finger. The 38-year old was on the DL twice earlier this season with the same injury. ... Los Angeles recalled ambidextrous reliever Pat Venditte from Oklahoma City to take Hill's roster spot and optioned right-hander Yimi Garcia to the Triple-A team. ... LHP Clayton Kershaw threw about 30 pitches Sunday in a bullpen session. Kershaw has been on the DL since May 6 with left biceps tendinitis.
Nationals: Strasburg landed awkwardly following a pitch to Max Muncy with one out in the third inning. He remained in the game after a mound visit from Martinez and a trainer.
Dodgers: Los Angeles returns home on Monday. RHP Walker Buehler (2-1, 2.67 ERA) takes the mound against Colorado's German Marquez (2-5, 5.15).
Nationals: Washington's homestand continues on Monday as LHP Gio Gonzalez (4-2, 2.36) faces San Diego for the eighth time in his career. Gonzalez is 3-2 with a 3.21 ERA against the Padres.
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tripleL at 1:06PM, Feb. 20, 2010
Wellll yeah there's a new page up. But when I said I was going to revamp this comic, I kind of meant the actual PLOT too. Can't draw a comic without a plot :D (OR CAN YOU!?!?) So. Plot comes first. Then artwork. But I am updating like I promised, woo-hoo! ^_^
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A friend recently reminded me that it's been a while since we updated this. Well, I suppose no news is good news. We went in today for Isla's follow-up echo. She did great! She was able to do everything without her cousin by her side, and was very brave!
Results show that her heart is 98% normal. Dr. Ivy wants her to stay on meds until it is 100% normal. The fact that we are talking about WHEN it becomes normal is so amazing! Until then she will remain on one medication 3x/day, but we won't increase the dose which technically means she is weaning.
The only negative thing is when she finally comes off meds, they will need to do a heart cath about 6 months later to check the pulmonary pressure. That scares us considering how she responded the first time, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it.
Our next appointment will be in 9 months! Longest break yet. The picture above is her amazing Nurse and Doctor, and below is Isla playing with the pile of toys they gave her today. 💕


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Contrary to the claims of at least one raving lunatic in America, it seems that the earthquake in Haiti was not caused by a pact with the Devil, but by natural occurrences related to faultlines. This is a great post explaining that fact, just in case anyone was wondering. The Devil, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, nor any other minion of the underworld is mentioned.
Want to help? Contrary to the claims of another raving lunatic, President Obama is encouraging aid for the sake of humanity, not politics, and you can donate to groups such as Partners in Health and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the spirit of compassion.


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The Eyes Have It
Since I have started to try and teach myself left handed fly casting I have been pondering what is the single most important aspect of fly casting that is key to producing the perfect fly cast. For the life of me I cannot say that this or that is the most important because 'this' always depends on 'that' being right as well.
I have said for years that a good, dynamic, back cast is the key to a good cast, and so it is, but, what do you have to do to create the perfect back cast? Ooh, let's see, perfect pickup or set up from the forward cast (and how do I set that up unless I have made the perfect back cast in the first place?), timing, power application, tracking, correct casting angle for amount of line/power, keeping everything in tension. Cor, look at that, I have just written the Five Essentials, and that's the crux of the matter. Take one of them away and you have fucked up, to put it bluntly. There is just no way around it, all the elements of the Five Essentials have to be melded together to produce the perfect overhead cast, and most other casts for that matter.
Before I heard of the Five Essentials my only option was trial and error as a way of trying to sort out (m)any casting problems I had. I fished for twenty five years before I got around to having my first proper lesson. That's an awful lot of trial and error. If I had bothered to take a few fly casting lesson's in year one I would have had the tools to work out my problems properly. This is exactly what the Essentials are, they are your tools of the trade.
Once you have the tools you can set about building your cast. The only other thing you need is eyes. You use those to watch your loops, or your hand, or the rod tip. For Gods sake look at something, don't just stare vacantly into space as I see a lot of casters do. If you have a problem seeing your back cast open up your stance a bit so that you can glance back without having to contort your neck or twist your body (that can ruin your tracking as you turn forward again). Learn to read your fly line. Is the loop too open, is it tailing, is the fly leg waving around, are the rod leg and fly leg in plane, are there waves running down the rod leg as the loop moves away from you. Even when the line has hit the ground, or water, you can still read it. Is it straight, has it curved, did it turn over fully or did it land in a heap. All of these things will lead back to one, or more, of the Five Essentials not being performed properly.
I think I have just answered my own question and created the Sixth Essential.
Use Your Bloody Eyes.
Some Essential reading http://www.sexyloops.com/articles/adjustmentsonthefly.shtml
Or, if you are less picky https://michaelheritage.wordpress.com/2009/02/
Essential No 5
There can be no slack in the casting system during the application of power.
"During the application of power", that's the bit to remember. After you have stopped you can do whatever you like, and we often do, to make fancy presentation casts or shoot line when false casting.
Where is slack likely to occur and what will it do to the cast?
If you have got to the double hauling stage there are a couple of things that can give you slack. If your loops are not dynamic enough to properly straighten the line you will lose effective casting angle because the rod will have to move a substantial distance into the next stroke before the slack is removed so your effective casting angle is now not wide enough for the amount of line you are casting (see, I told you these Essentials all meld together). The same thing will happen if you automatically raise your hauling hand to the 'ready' position instead of feeding it back against the tension in the line. Just take a look at the slack between your hauling hand and the butt ring, that's got to go somewhere and that will be in losing effective casting angle again.
I'm not sure if I have already mentioned effective casting angle before. It's the powered part of the casting angle, the bit where you are actually moving the line in the direction of the cast. Now, you might want that to be 10 to 2 because your brain is telling you that that is the correct casting angle for amount of line you are casting but you have taken your hauling hand up too soon so the rod may not acquire the line until 12 so your effective casting angle has now been reduced from 10 to 2 to 12 to 2 and you tail. That's what slack can do to you.
Essential No 4
In order for the rod tip to move in a straight line you must apply power in a smooth acceleration from RSP to RSP.
To keep a rod loaded correctly you have to apply a continuous force to it…continuously! right up to the moment you stop applying force anyway, that's called the stop.
Acceleration through the stroke has to do just that, accelerate. It's not a 10, 10, 10 thing it's a 5, 10, 20 thing. You start slow and finish fast, a bit like sex.
So, what happens if you don't apply power properly?, usually the tip rises as the rod tries to unload prematurely ( I wish I hadn't mentioned sex now). That puts a buckle in SLP and hey presto you have just tailed. Or, you apply too much power too soon and the tip drops below SLP and then rises as the system reaches some sort of equilibrium, bingo, you just tailed again.
At the other end of the scale if you don't apply enough power the rod tip will not flatten enough and it will describe a dome shaped path and you will have wide loops.
I was going to use a Goldilocks and the three bears analogy but I think we have had enough sex for one day don't you?
Essential No 3
The Pause between each stroke must vary with the amount time it takes for the line to straighten.
I am almost tempted not to write anything by way of explanation, I mean, come on, thats a pretty obvious statement. The more line you have out the longer it takes to straighten so the longer you have to wait before starting the next stroke.
So WTF do I see so many casters who have no concept of pausing?. Buggered if I know.
I think it all ties in with cadence. Some casters only have one speed, tick tock ( that bloody clock again!). And like a stopped clock they are going to be right twice a day but the rest of the time they will be wrong. The same also applies to the previous Essential, variable casting angle.
How often do you see casters on a bank whipping the rod back and forward unable to increase the amount of line they are carrying, or if they do shoot some line while false casting they don't wait for it to straighten so they are finally casting a huge horizontal S and the loops get bigger and bigger until the final mighty heave when the whole lot lands in a heap twenty feet in front of them.
Come on guys. Casting works best when there is tension in the line and the line is tautest when it is straight so let the bloody thing straighten. There is so much less effort required to cast if you allow the proper pause between strokes.
I'm basically lazy, I don't want to thrash a rod back and forth and get nowhere I just want to flick a nice loop back, wait for it to straighten and flick it forward again. What could be simpler.
Essential No 2
The Next Essential I want to talk about states,
" The casting angle must vary according to the amount of line we have outside the rod tip".
Now we are into variable casting arc. I will use the term casting angle rather than arc.
One thing to bare in mind when reading this is that the line always follows the rod tip.
Casting angle is the angle change at the rod butt from rod straight position at the start of the stroke to rod straight position at the end of the stroke (RSP to RSP). In other words from the rod starting to load at the beginning of the stroke to moment it unloads at the end of the stroke. It does not take into account any lateral hand movement, if there is any, that's a stylistic thing and not essential.
Basically the Essential is saying that the more load you put into the rod the deeper the rod will bend and the wider the casting angle has to be to create SLP (see the first article).
I'm going to have to use a clock face now, not something I like but there you go.
Say you are casting 20′ of line, the rod would hardly load and the casting angle would be something like two minutes to twelve to two minutes passed twelve to create tight loops, now we add 10′ and the casting angle would have to increase to five to twelve to five passed twelve, add another 20′ and the casting angle increases to ten to twelve to ten passed twelve and so on and so on. Simple. But, there are other variables to take into account such as the action of the rod. A softer actioned rod will load deeper than a fast actioned rod so will need a wider casting angle than the fast actioned rod for the same amount of line outside the tip. You can alter the amount of load in the rod by increasing or decreasing the amount of power you apply to the stroke, you might want a delicate 30′ cast to present a dry fly or a 30′ powerful into the wind cast both will put different loads into the rod and require different casting angles.
If the casting angle is too large for the amount of line you are casting you will get wide loops because the tip path is too convex. If the casting angle is too narrow for the amount of line you are casting the rod tip will actually drop below SLP and you will get tailing loops because you have created a concave tip path. Don't forget the line follows the rod tip, if the tip drops below SLP at any point during the stroke the top or fly leg of the line will actually be below the rod leg and the line will have crossed itself, this is a tailing loop, the thing that gives you those evil wind knots.
Variable casting arc is a bit like learning to ride a bike, it takes a bit of practice but once you have it it becomes ingrained in your stroke and you will hardly ever have to think about it again. You have just learned how to cure tailing loops as well, just open up your casting angle a bit.
The Five Essentials
Doubtless you have heard of the Five Essentials but have you actually thought about them. No?, well you should.
Casting God Bill Gammel and his father Jay Gammel synthesised overhead flycasting down to these essential elements. These are the things that must occur to produce the perfect flycast. There is not one that is more important than the other, they all have to meld together. But we have to start somewhere so, not in any particular order and certainly not in order of importance, here is my take on The Five Essentials.
"The rod tip must travel in a straight line throughout the casting stroke"
This means not only backwards and forwards (tracking) but also horizontally.
Tracking the tip in a straight line is the most efficient way to transfer energy, you cast from directly behind to directly ahead (180 deg). Unfortunately out of line tracking is one of the most common faults and I often see tracking that is 10 to 20 deg out of line. It means that you are losing a significant percentage of efficiency. I have heard of several methods to straighten tracking; cast an old rod or cane along a wall, cast along a line on a football pitch, drop the occasional back cast and see where it is lying. One friend casts on a grass verge that is only a few feet wide. One of the best methods is to pick a target in front as well as behind you, a tree or chimney or the corner of a building and aim your cast at it. Whichever method you decide to use the results will be well worth it in the end.
That's the back and forward sorted now to the horizontal.
What we are looking for is 'straight line path', SLP. This is where the load on the rod corresponds to the weight of the line we have aerialised and the rod tip bends to produce SLP, this will give us our nice tight loops. I like to look at it as slicing the top off an orange.
SLP is one of the things you can alter to suit a particular situation, if you are casting a team of three flies you do not want a tight loop or you risk getting the flies tangled, you want a more open loop, so you track the tip in a more convex path. If you are casting into a wind you want a tighter loop that presents less surface so a flatter SLP is required.
What you do not want is a concave tip path where the tip drops below SLP so this will lead us nicely onto the next Essential.


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When all else fails, we go to our neighborhood Italian restaurant. And since we're staying in the neighborhood for dinner whatever neighborhood that might be we can walk. This means we can drink as much as we want without tempting the after-dinner fates by getting behind the wheel, not that we would dream of doing such a thing. Also, we can pretend we're in Italy. The Italians spend a lot of time walking through their beautiful cities, at least when not scooting about on their Vespas. They tend not to drink too much, either. Wine in Italy is food, and is to be enjoyed like other food: heartily, but not to excess.
While in recent weeks the vanguard of the food involved have settled on just-opened Spruce near Laurel Village, like pigeons descending on the Piazza San Marco in Venice, we fluttered to a threshold nearby on a mild autumn evening. It was that of Osteria, a graciously homey restaurant of a certain age where the locals go when they're not in the mood for trends like squab. (Squab is the food-involved word for pigeon.) The interior, a drawing-room assembly of hand-painted ceramic tiles, wallpapers, striped upholstery, and carved wood columns, has a terra-cotta luminousness, while chef-owner Vahid Ghorbani's menu consists of well-constructed old friends, including a number of veal dishes.
Since veal has been banished from our home kitchen, mostly on grounds of animal cruelty, I find myself powerfully drawn to it in restaurants. Perhaps this is hypocrisy or some other moral failing. Perhaps I should not order veal and enjoy it but I do and I do, and then that's enough, at least until the next time. Osteria's veal parmesan ($18) consists of several flaps of meat slathered in a garlicky tomato sauce, with slices of cheese melted on top. The meat was tender and tasty enough, if rather beefy, and it occurred to me that if I were making this dish at home, I would use turkey scallops, and they would be just as good. Elsewhere on the plate: neat piles of quartered carrot sticks and trimmed green beans, along with a lone boiled new potato. All handsome in a faintly apologetic way. One of the Dutch masters could have done something attractive with this colorful group.
The eggplant parmesan ($13) was essentially the same dish, with virtue substituted for the veal. I will never cheer for eggplant, but if the bitter juices are salted out and the slices are bathed in a tasty sauce, I can look the other way backward, perhaps, at the fine first courses. One, an artichoke heart ($9) filled with bay shrimp and dressed like a sundae with a basil vinaigrette, was substantial enough to serve as a light main course, even without the heart of palm flute to one side. The other, a spinach salad ($8) with roasted almonds and gorgonzola, was given a note of insinuation by a dark and handsome balsamic vinaigrette.
For dessert: mocha torte ($6), basically a slice of coffee ice cream cake. Or just watch the people come and go, young and old, in groups big and small, even a table of bears with what could be a cub. Almost like Noe Valley!
Funny you should ask. For years the best Italian restaurant in Noe Valley was Bacco Ristorante (which opened in 1993). Of course, for years the competition was thin. Lately it's intensified, with the arrivals of Incanto, La Ciccia, Pescheria (all on outer Church), and Lupa (just around the corner.) But Bacco's owners, Paolo Dominici and Vincenzo Cucco, haven't been lazing on their laurels. They've picked up a Zagat rating, for one thing, and, for another, they've replaced the terra-cotta paint scheme with one of sage and butter. There's also now a beautiful interior Old World arch.
It would be difficult to improve on the food. We inhaled the crostino ($9.95), a pair of sizable toast rounds spread with a butterlike cannellini puree, then layered with garlic-sautéed broccoli rabe and shavings of pecorino cheese. A salad of wine red roasted beets ($11.95) interpolated with sections of pink grapefruit and daubs of goat cheese vanished with only slightly more ceremony.
Garganelli ($17.95) pennelike pasta, tossed with smoked sausage and porcini in a spicy tomato sauce was a gratifying country dish. Just a bit more exotic was a plate of fregola ($19.95), a pebbly pasta (like a Sardinian version of Israeli couscous), sauced with a mix of mussels and scallops in a saffron tomato sauce. If you squinted, you could convince yourself this was a seafood risotto made with especially fat grains of rice.
Dessert: a flourless chocolate torte ($8) with crème anglaise, raspberries, and mint, the colors of the Italian flag and the pizza margherita. Crowd: mixed and younger than Osteria's, with more overt peculiarities. Middle-aged man with much younger man in beret: Son? Boyfriend? Other thoughts?
Our server asked me if I wanted a second glass of pinot grigio, which was peculiar, since on the first round I'd ordered vermentino ($8.50). The vermentino hadn't tasted like vermentino; it was too plump, like an oaked California chardonnay or maybe a domestic pinot grigio. I demurred on a second glass, wondering if it would be rude to ask if it was poured right from the bottle. At Bacco's prices, which are far from low, this wouldn't seem unreasonable. Although we weren't at all tipsy, we walked home one of life's loveliest luxuries.
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It can be hard to make a compelling case for why people should check out their first opera – especially when it involves an hour drive and stiff seats — but Central City Opera has done just that with its current production of Georges Bizet's Carmen.
Opera has a lot working against it when it comes to attracting new devotees. Topping the list is the genre's reputation for being an irrelevant, overpriced art form for rich people aspiring to seem cultured, who dress up and then sit down for a couple hours trying not to cough through some caterwauling. To the opera-phobe, the music sounds bovine.
But Carmen sounds divine...against all odds.
Dead white men wrote the vast majority of operas, a bruise on any art form in an era when audiences expect diversity in the authors and artists they embrace. (After eighty-plus years in the mining town turned gambling mini-mecca, Central City Opera is just this year presenting its first-ever piece written by a woman, and Amy Beach's Cabildo is just a one-act.) Few operas translate into anything that can be considered socially relevant today – at least not without some serious directorial tweaking. And it doesn't help that many of the most notable operas are ridiculous melodramas about whiny heterosexuals who wind up killing each other because they can't control their emotions.
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The warhorse that Central City Opera trotted out this year isn't exactly a modern opera. Its theme: Sluts die. At least that's how it's often played. This is certainly not a women's-lib story. It's about how women who step out of the bounds of monogamy will be suffocated by jealous men. Killed, even.
And then there's the fact that Central City is half a gas tank away up a winding road in the mountains. And after you park, you have to cart your caboose up a steep hill to go into a 140-year-old theater that has a reputation for historic seats (subtext: uncomfortable), and even the bathrooms are outside the opera house. All this in an era when air-conditioned multiplexes loaded with recliners spoil people into thinking that every theater should be a living room away from home.
Despite all of this — and also because of it — Central City Opera continues to be one of the most all-around captivating cultural institutions on the Front Range, and certainly the best place in Colorado for people to see their first opera.
The magic starts with Central City itself, a throwback that has somehow preserved its Old West architecture, despite being overrun by modern-day gamblers and classical-music aficionados. Pat Pearce, Central City Opera's executive director, describes the town as a sleep-away camp for opera singers, who flood the steep streets each summer. Going to a production here also has some summer-camp flair for opera fans. You and the rest of the audience are part of a community that seems far from the bustle of downtown, in a charming, rustic space that somehow enhances enjoyment of world-class productions.
The company's approach to Carmen, which runs through August 6, is definitely world-class, and very smart. Director Jose Maria Condemi turns what can easily be played as a story of slut-shaming into a cautionary tale about how jealousy leads to domestic violence.
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The acting is breathtaking, particularly that of tenor Adriano Graziani, who plays Don José, the abusive, skulking, soldier-turned-wannabe-gypsy-turned-abusive-brute. Michael Mayes, the giant of a baritone who plays the macho bullfighter Escamillo (try getting his rendition of Georges Bizet's ear-worm "Toreador" out of your head), keeps the audience laughing, even amid the swelling tragedy. And soprano Emily Pulley, who tackles the role of Carmen, brings out the nuance of the character.
The production is anything but a snoozer, and it's artful enough to make the classic story relevant today. In short, a perfect entry point for someone new to opera, and also a treat for aficionados.
This Central City Opera season isn't as cutting-edge as previous ones, including the year when it staged Dead Man Walking, an operatic reflection on the death penalty based on Sister Helen Prejan's memoir of her time working on death row. While this year's one-act fare does broaden the season's scope (including Beach's Cabildo), the full-length productions Carmen and Mozart's Cosî Fan Tutte are mainstay classical works.
Still, they, too, are worth your time. And if you need more modern action after the show, you can always walk down back down that steep hill and gamble away the rest of your night at the casinos.
The Central City Opera season runs through August 6 at 124 Eureka Street. For a full schedule, tickets and more information, visit Central City Opera online.


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Iretsu is a Portland-based avant-pop quartet, Ryan Cross (vocal), Glen Scheidt (drums), Joel Holly (guitar) and Chris Pickolick (bass). Fang is
their sophomore full-length album.
Fang provides a rare, energetic and dreamy cinematic soundscape from the glockenspiel in the opening title track "Fang" through catchy "Sexy, No?"
that by all means is just that; sexy. A term that also easily could be used for "Sleep" with it's seductive deep vocal, and good-night-whistling. And then
there is the joyous "Ha-Ra", the synth-cabaret "Neubled" and the epic atmospheric pop-dream of the closure "Particles". All utterly charming, dark-toned chiming,
and sublimely catchy. As is the tracks I haven't mentioned.
In short. Iretsu delivers with Fang the finest pop-art.
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Two people were injured Friday when a DART paratransit bus collided with a car and started a five-vehicle chain-reaction crash, DART officials say.
The crash took place in the southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway near Oak Lawn and Harry Hines at about 2:30 p.m. According to DART, the driver of the paratransit bus didn't slow down with surrounding traffic and slammed into a car, which led to a 5-vehicle chain-reaction crash.
Dallas Fire-Rescue extricated at least one person who was trapped in the car hit by the bus and transported him to an area hospital. Officials with DART said a second person was also hospitalized.
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Neither of the injuries are life-threatening.
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