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City | Gary, Indiana |
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Branding | Fox Chicago Plus |
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Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Fox Television Stations, LLC |
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History | |
First air date | April 4, 1982 |
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Call sign meaning | "Power" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 48772 |
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Transmitter coordinates | 41°52′44.1″N 87°38′10.2″W / 41.878917°N 87.636167°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
WPWR-TV (channel 50), branded as Fox Chicago Plus, is a television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States. It is one of two commercial television stations in the Chicago market to be licensed in Indiana (alongside WJYS [channel 62] in Hammond). WPWR-TV is owned by Fox Television Stations alongside WFLD (channel 32), an owned-and-operated station of the Fox network; the stations share studios on North Michigan Avenue in the Chicago Loop and transmitter facilities atop the Willis Tower. The station carries programming from Fox's secondary programming service, MyNetworkTV, in late night.
WPWR-TV sold its spectrum space in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s incentive auction,[2] and began channel-sharing with WFLD on June 11, 2018.