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Background: Tribune Broadcasting is the broadcasting arm of Tribune Company. It began in the 1930s with the sign-on of WGN-AM in Chicago ("WGN" stands for "World's Greatest Newspaper", slogan of thecompany's namesake, the Chicago Tribune). It entered television in 1948 with WGN-TV in Chicago and WPIX-TV in New York (the "PIX" in WPIX is for the New York Daily News's then-slogan, "New York's Picture Newspaper"). It grew by acquiring more stations (such as Duluth's KDAL (now KDLH) in 1960, being Tribune's first station west of the Mississippi, Denver's KCTO in 1966 (now KWGN), being kept by Tribune after KDAL's sale, and Los Angeles's KTLA in 1985, formerly owned by Gene Autry). From 1995 to 2006, it owned a minority interest in the now defunct The WB network. During The WB's existence, Tribune exited the radio business (excluding WGN-AM), bought out a company called Renaissance Broadcasting (no relation to Renaissance Pictures), and bought several other stations (such as Seattle's KCPQ). Many of its WB stations were sold not too long after the inception of it's successor, The CW (the aforementioned stations, with one exception, all went with The CW at its launch). Anyway, now to the logos:


1st (known) Logo
(1995-2008)
Tribune Broadcasting (1995-2008)
Note: Prior to this logo's usage, the logo used for newscasts was the then-current Tribune Entertainment logo, with "ENTERTAINMENT" replaced with "BROADCASTING".

Nicknames: "Zooming Tribune Text", "The WGN Logo"

Logo: In widescreen, we see a changing purple/pink/blue background with "TRIBUNE" in its corporate logo font, moving in different directions when it changes scenes of the BG. Then the text

TRIBUNE
B R O A D C A S T I N G

zooms out, and a red line draw side by side between "TRIBUNE" and "BROADCASTING". Usually, copyright information for the station appearsbelow.

Variant: An in-credit version of the logo (which is the finished product in a small box) appearsappeared on some stations, such as KWGN.KWGN; it disappeared when KWGN retired its Giant Octopus graphics in August 2008.

FX/SFX: Everything.

Music/Sounds: A majestic piano/string tune. Most of the time, the ending theme of the newscast plays.plays; the clip above (from Sacramento's KTXL) uses 615 Music's "In-Sink V.3"; other stations' themes vary.

Availability: Seen on broadcasts of Tribune-owned stations' newscasts of the era, but starting in 2007, a new logo debuted, beginning with WGN-TV, its flagship station, but some others still used this logo until April of 2008, and all stations now have the next logo below, so it's bordering near extinction.

Scare Factor: None.



2nd Logo
(2007- )
Tribune Broadcasting (2007- )
Nickname: "Sweeping Tribune Text"

Logo: Like its predecessor, but redone. We see a changing animated background with blue and black BG colors with lines and "TRIBUNE" in the current corporate logo font, moving in different directions, looking similar to its predecessor. "TRIBUNE BROADCASTING" with a line between the two names sweeps up to the middle of the screen. As with its predecessor, copyright information usually appears below.

FX/SFX: Everything.

Music/Sounds: Same as its predecessor.

Availability: Debuted in 2007, starting with WGN-TV, while others used the previous logo but switched to this logo in April 2008.

Scare Factor: Low; first time jitters may come if you expect the old logo, but you'll get used to this one.