{"id":10383,"date":"2016-05-24T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=10383"},"modified":"2016-05-23T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T01:35:46","slug":"changes-on-the-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/changes-on-the-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes On The Dial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=10385\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10385\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10385\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wgn9.jpg\" alt=\"wgn9\" width=\"720\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wgn9.jpg 720w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wgn9-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>For the first time since 1995, WGN will be an independent television station this fall after announcing that they were not renewing their contract with the CW. \u00a0Starting September 1, CW programming will move to WPWR, owned by Fox. \u00a0WGN was the flagship station when the WB network launched in 1995 and became Chicago&#8217;s CW affiliate when the WB merged with UPN in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean for viewers? \u00a0Initially, not much, beyond some schedule stability. \u00a0CW programming won&#8217;t have to compete with live sporting events on WGN anymore and WGN won&#8217;t have to farm out a certain number of its sporting events to other stations. \u00a0So no more Saturday night episodes of <em>The Flash<\/em> and more White Sox and Cubs games back on WGN. \u00a0Long term? \u00a0Well, I&#8217;ve already seen one article calling for the return of <em>The Bozo Show<\/em>. \u00a0I guess anything is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 1995, WGN will be an independent television station this fall after announcing that they were not renewing their contract with the CW. \u00a0Starting September 1, CW programming will move to WPWR, owned by Fox. \u00a0WGN was the flagship station when the WB network launched in 1995 and became Chicago&#8217;s CW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[120,807,806,1755,5076,860,6681,2914,49,6680],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-cubs","tag-cw","tag-fox","tag-the-bozo-show","tag-the-flash","tag-the-wb","tag-upn","tag-wgn","tag-white-sox","tag-wpwr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10387,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}