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Tribune Broadcasting (corporate name: Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC) is an American media company which operates as a subsidiary of Tribune Media, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. The group owns and/or operates 43 broadcast television stations and one radio station throughout the United States; it also holds full or partial ownership of three cable television and two national digital subchannel networks. ==History== Tribune Broadcasting's development originated with the June 1924 purchase of Chicago, Illinois radio station WDAP (720 AM) by the ''Chicago Tribune''. The new owners changed the station's call letters to WGN, to match the ''Tribune''s slogan, "World's Greatest Newspaper." The ''Tribune'' would launch a television station in Chicago, WGN-TV (channel 9), in April 1948 as a dual affiliate of CBS and the DuMont Television Network. Two months later, the ''Tribune''s then-sibling newspaper in New York City, the ''Daily News'', established its own television station, WPIX (channel 11) – which launched without a network affiliation as all four broadcast networks at the time (ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont) had already owned other stations in the market. During the next six decades, Tribune Broadcasting (known originally as WGN, Incorporated, and from 1966〔"KWGN(TV) starts with a bang." ''Broadcasting'', March 14, 1966, pg. 58. ()〕 to 1981〔("In brief." ''Broadcasting'', November 14, 1980, pg. 34 )〕 as WGN Continental Broadcasting Company) would acquire radio and television stations throughout the United States; most of the television properties acquired by the company prior to 1995 were independent stations. WGN-TV and WPIX are the only stations that Tribune has owned since their inceptions. Tribune also operated several local cable television systems from 1977 to 1985. In 1993, Tribune launched Chicagoland Television (CLTV), 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 (which owned stations in a few markets where Tribune owned stations, including WATL in Atlanta, which was operated alongside Tribune-owned WGNX);〔(Tribune, minority group on TV station Qwest; new company's first buys are WATL-TV Atlanta and WNOL-TV New Orleans ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', November 21, 1994. Retrieved July 20, 2013 from HighBeam Research.〕 Tribune would later acquire the Qwest stations outright in November 1999.〔(BREAKFAST BRIEFING // CHICAGO ), ''Chicago Sun-Times'', November 10, 1999. Retrieved July 23, 2013 from HighBeam Research.〕 From January 1995 to September 2006, Tribune Broadcasting was a partner in The WB Television Network, in a joint venture with the Warner Bros. Television division of Time Warner.〔(Tribune Broadcasting Joins with Warner Bros. to Launch Fifth Television Network ), ''TheFreeLibrary.com''. Retrieved 12-10-2010.〕 Tribune initially had a 12.5% ownership interest in the network at its launch and later increased its stake to 22%; in addition, partly as a result of a November 1993 affiliation deal with the network, most of Tribune's television properties were WB affiliates. On July 2, 1996, Tribune acquired Renaissance Broadcasting, which owned Fox- and WB-affiliated stations in several large and mid-sized markets.〔(Tribune Co. Looks to Boost Role in TV with Offer for Six Stations ), ''Los Angeles Daily News'', July 2, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013 from HighBeam Research.〕 On January 24, 2006, Time Warner announced that it would partner with CBS Corporation to form a new network that would feature The WB and CBS-owned UPN's higher-rated shows mixed with newer series, called The CW Television Network. All but three of Tribune's 19 WB affiliates (including three that were sold off to other companies later that year) became affiliates of The CW on September 18, 2006, through ten-year agreements (the exceptions were in Philadelphia, Seattle and Atlanta, due to The CW affiliating with CBS-owned stations in those markets), though Tribune itself would not exercise an ownership stake in The CW as it did with The WB.〔(UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network ), ''The New York Times'', January 24, 2006.〕 In April 2007, Tribune's broadcasting interests were included in the sale of the entire company to Chicago investor Sam Zell, who planned take the publicly traded company private. The deal was completed on December 20, 2007.〔(Zell buys Tribune Co., Cubs to be sold ), ''CNNMoney'', April 3, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2013.〕 On December 21, 2007, Tribune and Oak Hill Capital Partners-controlled Local TV, LLC announced plans to collaborate in the formation of a "broadcast management company" (later named The Other Company); its Tribune Interactive division also operated the websites of its stations as part of the partnership.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/41314/tribune-interactive-schurz-in-web-deal?ref=search )〕〔(Radio Daze: Tribune Gang Sets Out to Reinvent TV ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', April 13, 2008.〕 On December 8, 2008, Tribune announced that it would voluntarily restructure its debt obligations, as part of its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court. As the company had sufficient funds to do so, Tribune continued to operate its newspaper publishing and broadcasting, and interactive businesses without interruption during the restructuring. On January 1, 2011, Tribune launched the digital broadcast network Antenna TV, a service that features a variety of classic television series and movies, including programming from Sony Pictures Television and D.L. Taffner Entertainment. On May 13, 2013, Tribune announced that it would buy a 50% stake in the This TV digital broadcast network from fellow Chicago-based media company Weigel Broadcasting; Tribune took over operational duties for the network on November 1, 2013. On July 1, 2013, Tribune announced that it would purchase the 19 stations owned by Local TV, LLC outright for $2.725 billion; the purchase expanded the number of Big Three network affiliates in its portfolio from one to 10 (most of Tribune's television stations prior to the purchase had either been independent stations or from 1995 onward, affiliates of networks that have launched since 1986; New Orleans station WGNO (channel 26) – an ABC affiliate – was Tribune's only station affiliated with one of the three pre-1986 networks prior to the purchase), as well as form duopolies involving stations in Denver and St. Louis where the two companies maintained local marketing agreements.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-tribune-buying-local-tv-20130701,0,3402241.story )〕 In order to prevent conflicts with newspaper cross-ownership restrictions (specifically, with ''Daily Press'' and ''The Morning Call''), three stations involved in the acquisition – the Norfolk, Virginia duopoly of WTKR (channel 3) and WGNT (channel 27), and Scranton, Pennsylvania station WNEP-TV (channel 16) – were sold to Dreamcatcher Broadcasting and are operated by Tribune under shared services agreements (Tribune has an option to purchase WNEP after the publishing/broadcasting split,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/494770-Tribune_to_Put_Local_TV_s_WNEP_Scranton_Norfolk_Stations_Up_for_Sale.php )〕 although such a transfer may be complicated by possible FCC action on a proposal to end a "discount" in television station ownership limits that count UHF stations to half a percentage to a group's overall market reach, which would put Tribune just over the current limit of 39%, under which the company's current station holdings after the Local TV purchase would be grandfathered〔(FCC expected to propose dropping UHF discount from TV ownership caps ), ''Los Angeles Times'', September 25, 2013.〕). The Federal Communications Commission approved the acquisition on December 20,〔(FCC OKs Tribune Co.'s agreement to buy Local TV Holdings ), ''Crain's Chicago Business'', December 20, 2013.〕 and the sale was completed one week later on December 27.〔(Company Completes Final Steps of Transaction Announced in July ), Tribune Company, 27 December, 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tribune Broadcasting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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