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--- Quote ---It was also tried in Chicago on Channel 66 (I believe the station was time-brokered for business news during the day and music videos at night and on weekends). Eventually it evolved into a general TV outlet (chock full of syndie fare and reruns [it was Chicago's home to the Davidson PYRAMID and picked up the Finn TJW somewhere along the line], plus Illinois and Northwestern basketball) and now serves as the Univision outlet.
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It also aired for very brief periods of time \"Strike It Rich,\" \"The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime\" and the final seasons of \"TJW\" and \"TTD.\" I emphasize \"short time\" in that many of those shows got pulled off the air because the station's owner, Milt Grant, a rich man who bought a lot of TV stations in the mid-late 80s, overspent on programming and couldn't pay his bills (it should be pointed that some syndicators knew they had a live one with Grant and overcharged him on some shows). The syndicators responded by pulling many of their shows off his stations, including what was then (and now) known as WGBO. His stations eventually got sold off piecemeal, but WGBO remained the doormat of Chicago TV until the great Latino TV switcharound of 1993-4 where in a year or two's time WCIU went English-language independent from Univision, WSNS went Telemundo from Univision and WGBO went Univision from indie. (The latter two stations were bought by their network, with the NBC-Telemundo merger WSNS now originates from the NBC Tower, with their news staff right next to WMAQ's.)
I would say that WCIU became and still is the ratings doormat of Chicago television, but it seems like since Fox bought WPWR, our UPN outlet, that the U is gaining on \"UPN Chicago\" (as they prefer to be known now, like \"Fox Chicago\" for WFLD, although some spots still say \"Chicago's Power Station\" without any reasoning for that slogan, like the call letters). And the U is the home of \"Pyramid\" and \"Feud\" in Chicago.
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