WPIX
Summary
WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of The CW Television Network. The station's signal covers the tri-state New York metropolitan area and WPIX is also available as a regional superstation via satellite and cable in the United States and Canada.WPIX made its on-air debut on June 15, 1948 as New York's fifth television station and second independent outlet. It was also the second of three stations to start up in the New York market during 1948, one month after Newark-based independent WATV (channel 13, now WNET) and two months before ABC-owned WJZ-TV (channel 7, now WABC-TV).Like its longtime sister station WGN-TV in Chicago (which first signed on in April 1948), WPIX's call letters come from the slogan of the newspaper that founded it—in this case, it was the New York Daily News, whose tag was "New York's Picture Newspaper".
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Play Ball: Tribune, DirecTV Sign New Carriage Deal
Just in time for baseball season, Tribune Broadcasting and DirecTV signed a new carriage agreement covering Tribune's 23 TV stations in 19 markets and the national cable network WGN America.
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Tribune to DirecTV: No Retrans Deal
Tribune TV stations in 19 markets such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles went dark on DirecTV at midnight March 31 when the two companies were unable to reach a final carriage deal.
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Astonishing reportorial resources devoted to Park Slope Food Coop meeting
Guardian Brian Braiker reports from Tuesday’s meeting at which members of the storied Park Slope Food Coop voted on whether they should vote on stocking products from Israel.
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Retrans Fight Brewing Between Tribune and DirecTV
Tribune, owner of 23 TV stations in 16 markets, including some of the nation's largest, is threatening to pull its signals and the WGN America cable network from DirecTV if the two companies cannot come to an agreement by March 31 when the current contract expires.
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Diller-backed Aereo countersues Fox, PBS
(Reuters) - Aereo Inc, an online television service backed by billionaire Barry Diller, filed a second countersuit against major broadcasters that want to stop it from retransmitting their programming.
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Anderson Cooper Seeks to Show his Daytime Side
While traditionalists may see a risk to his reputation, Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show is his effort as one of the great hopes to inherit the audience Oprah Winfrey left behind.
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Rudy Giuliani Still Mulling Presidential Run
Most of the political media today is touting the fact that the GOP race for the 2012 nomination is essentially a race of three frontrunners -- Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry -- or, at the very least, a battle between the latter two to decide who gets to take on Romney.
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NYC Newscast's Artsy Subway Posters Send an Odd Message
Old-timey TV sets with static-y screens in a darkened room with papers strewn across the floor? Artsy and cool, perhaps, but is it the best imagery for New York's WPIX Channel 11 to plaster across NYC subway ads to promote its news operation? It seems to imply traditional media can't pay the lighting bills in the Internet age.
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Webdenda: Accounts and People of Note in the Ad Industry
Beam Global Spirits and Wine, Deerfield, Ill. , expanded its relationship with the Chicago office of Euro RSCG Worldwide by naming it to handle the creative duties for the introduction of Pucker, a flavored vodka.
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Fox stations clear Anderson Cooper talker
TV News: Tribune also picks up new chat show in New York -- Anderson Cooper, meet your new boss: Roger Ailes.
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