Newsweb Corporation is a printer of ethnic and alternative newspapers in the United States, based in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
. The company also owns several radio stations in the Chicago area. Newsweb was founded in 1971 by Chicago entrepreneur, political activist, and philanthropist
Fred Eychaner
Fred Eychaner (born c. 1945) is an American businessman and philanthropist.
Eychaner is the chairman of Newsweb Corporation. He was included in ''Chicago'' magazine's 2014 list of the 100 most powerful Chicagoans. In 2005, the ''Chicago Tribune ...
to continue his printing business.
Radio
In early 2004, the company purchased 99.9 FM
WRZA from Entravision and in late 2004, the company purchased three suburban Chicago radio stations from
Spanish Broadcasting System
Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS) is one of the largest owners and operators of radio stations in the United States. SBS is also invested in television and internet properties, deriving the majority of its income from advertising through i ...
: 92.5 FM
WDEK, 92.7 FM
WKIE and 92.7 FM
WKIF. The
trimulcast
In broadcasting, a trimulcast is a cluster of three radio stations and/or translators that play the same feed. Normally this is done in order to have full coverage of a certain area. Some stations use this technique to provide rimshot coverage i ...
was formerly the home to Energy 92.7&5. WKIF was broken away from the trimulcast and WRZA took its place. WKIF became a CNN Radio affiliate. The new trimulcast became a
variety hits format as Nine FM, and the station later became a split-format station with Nine FM during the day and Dance Hits format ''Dance Factory'' at night. Dance Factory is operated by TKC Entertainment, which leases the air time from Newsweb. Nine FM was discontinued as of October 19, 2008 in favor of Progressive Talk simulcast with sister station WCPT.
WCPT-FM 92.7,
WCPQ 99.9, and
WCPY 92.5 was a trimulcast which simulcast
WCPT between 5 AM and 9 PM, and operates Dance Hits format ''Dance Factory'' at night.
Newsweb Corporation owns
WCPT which is an
Air America and
CNN Radio
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by t ...
affiliate, and also includes locally hosted
Progressive Talk
Progressive talk radio is a talk radio format devoted to expressing left-leaning, liberal or progressive viewpoints of news and issues as opposed to conservative talk radio. In the United States, the format has included syndicated and indepe ...
programming. WCPT operates on 820 AM in the Chicago area.
Newsweb purchased AM 850
WAIT
Wait or WAIT may refer to:
Music
* Wait (musician), British town pipers
Albums and EPs
* ''Wait'' (The Polyphonic Spree EP), by The Polyphonic Spree
* ''Wait'' (Emanuel Nice EP), a 2002 EP released by the band Emanuel Nice
* ''Wait'' (Stee ...
in 2004. Newsweb also owns
WSBC
WSBC (1240 AM) is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, which broadcasts brokered programming. It is owned by Newsweb Corporation.
History
WSBC began broadcasting in 1925 and originally broadcast at 1430 kHz.[WNDZ
WNDZ (750 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a brokered programming format. Licensed to Portage, Indiana, United States, it serves the Chicago area. The station is owned by Newsweb Corporation. WNDZ operates as a daytime-only station.
History
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750 AM, and formerly owned
WCFJ 1470 AM, until surrendering the station's license to the
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdicti ...
on November 9, 2015.
In May 2018, Newsweb sold
WCPQ to
Bible Broadcasting Network
The Bible Broadcasting Network (BBN) is a listener-supported global Conservative Christian radio network staffed and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was founded in 1971 by Lowell Davey, who was the network's president until his dea ...
for $5,099,000.
WCPT-FM was sold to
Educational Media Foundation for $1.6 million in autumn of 2018.
In August 2019, Newsweb sold WAIT's transmitter site to
McHenry County College, and the station was taken off the air. Newsweb surrendered WAIT's license on July 15, 2020, and the FCC cancelled the license on July 21.
Television
Newsweb had formerly owned the
Gary, Indiana
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The city has been historically dominated by major industrial activity and is home to U.S. Steel's Gary Works, the largest steel mill complex in North America. Gary is located along the sou ...
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licensed
A license (or licence) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).
A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...
UPN
The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that launched on January 16, 1995. It was originally owned by Chris-Craft Industries' United Television. Viacom (through its Paramount Television unit, which pr ...
affiliate for Chicago,
WPWR, until 2003, when they sold the station to
Fox Television Stations Group
Fox Television Stations, LLC (FTS; alternately Fox Television Stations Group, LLC), is a group of television stations located within the United States, which are owned-and-operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the Fox Cor ...
, becoming a
duopoly with
WFLD
WFLD (channel 32) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside Gary, Indiana–licensed MyNetworkTV ...
, the
Fox owned and operated
In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an affiliate ...
station.
In 2006, they also sold
Denver
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...
UPN affiliate
KTVD to
Gannett, who made it part of a duopoly with Gannett's local
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...
affiliate,
KUSA-TV
KUSA (channel 9) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD (channel 20). Both stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's S ...
. Newsweb retained KTVD's former satellite station in
Sterling, Colorado, KUPN (now
KCDO-TV
KCDO-TV (channel 3) is an independent television station licensed to Sterling, Colorado, United States, serving the Denver area. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside ABC affiliate KMGH-TV (channel 7). Both stations share stu ...
), which was operated as independent station from 2010 to 2020. The company later sold KCDO-TV, which was briefly affiliated with
Grit, to
Scripps in November 2020.
KCDO-TV STERLING, CO
RabbitEars.info (Print page for Technical Data). Retrieved 29 November 2020
Coincidentally, both WPWR and KTVD are affiliates of MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its ...
.
References
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External links
Newsweb's brokered stations site
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Broadcasting companies of the United States
Newspaper companies of the United States
Companies based in Chicago
Publishing companies established in 1971