Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: WBBM-TV, WLS-TV, WFLD, WMAQ-TV, WICD, WCIA, WQAD-TV, WAND, WHBF-TV, WTTW, WICS, List of television stations in Illinois, Wisconsin Public Television, WHOI, WEEK-TV, WTVW, WWTO-TV, Network Knowledge, WJJY-TV, WFIE, WEHT, WMBD-TV, Lewis University Television Network, WSIL-TV, WGEM-TV, WRSP-TV, WTVP, WREX, WYZZ-TV, WAZE-TV, WTVO, Illinois Channel, Tri-State Christian Television, WQPT-TV, WCFN, WBUI, WPXS, WIFR, WAOE, WQRF-TV, WEVV-TV, WEIU-TV, WRHS-TV, WSIU-TV, WRBU, WOCK-CD, WNIN, ECTV, WGEM-DT3, WGEM-DT2, WCFC-CA, W40CN-D, KNLJ, WTCT, WTJR, Total Living Network, WSPY-LP, W15BU-D, WEDE-CA, WQFL-CA, W29CI, W50CH, W45BM, WBXC-CA. Excerpt: WBBM-TV, virtual channel 2 (digital channel 12), is the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV's main studios and offices are located in The Loop section of Chicago, as part of the development at Block 37, and its transmitter is atop the Willis Tower. WBBM-TV traces its history to 1940 when Balaban and Katz, a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, opened experimental station W9XBK, the first all-electronic television facility in Chicago. Balaban and Katz was already well known for owning several theaters in Chicago. To estalish the station, they hired television pioneer William C. (Bill) Eddy away from RCA's experimental station W2XBS in New York. When WWII began, Eddy used the W9XBK facilities as a prototype school for training Navy electronics technicians. While operating the Navy school, Eddy continued to lead W9XBK and wrote a book that defined commercial television for many years. On September 6, 1946, the station received a commercial license as WBKB (meaning Balaban and Katz Broadcasting) on channel 4, the first commercial station outside the Eastern Time Zone, airing some of the earliest CBS programing, including the debut in 1947 of Junior Jamboree...