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In North American broadcasting, a superstation is a terrestrial television station that has its broadcast range extended outside of their originating media market via communications satellite to multi
A typical communications satellite depicted in orbit over Earth. Satellites like these were used to uplink superstations beginning in the late 1970s.
Microwave relay stations, like this AT&T station in Wyoming c. 1951, were used to amplify distant television signals.
Ted Turner, c. 1976
A typical c-band satellite dish
WGN-TV
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WGN-TV is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, that serves as the local outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by the network's parent company, Nexstar Media Group, sharing c
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Garfield Goose and Friends was one of the earliest television programs WGN-TV broadcast in color.
News van outside the Dirksen Federal Building in June 2018.
Bozo's Circus 1968
A TV schedule showing programming from 4 to 10 p.m., Thursday, September 16, 1954, for four TV stations in Chicago. WGN is the column on the left.