Programming
WGN-TV runs The CW's entire programming schedule (including The CW Daytime and the Saturday morning Vortexx animation block). Due to the station's sports broadcast commitments, The CW's weekday daytime and primetime programs are subject to preemption should a sports telecast be scheduled during network programming hours, the programs are tape delayed to air later that week should such preemptions occur with primetime shows usually airing on Saturday and/or Sunday evenings as The CW does not carry primetime programming on weekends. Syndicated programming on WGN-TV includes Live! with Kelly and Michael, Rachael Ray, Friends, The Andy Griffith Show, Two and a Half Men and 30 Rock.
WGN-TV has the distinction of being one of only two CW affiliates airing Live! with Kelly and Michael (the only other being St. Louis sister station KPLR-TV); although it is an ABC-owned station (Live! is distributed by ABC corporate cousin, Disney-ABC Domestic Television), WLS-TV has never aired the program (which utilizes the common timeslot of 9 a.m.) in its various syndicated iterations due to its live airing of Oprah from 1986 to 2011 (a practice that dated back to its existence for two years prior to the start of that program's syndication run as local morning show AM Chicago), which was replaced thereafter by local talk show Windy City Live; Live! is expected to move to WLS-TV in September 2013, making it the last ABC owned-and-operated station to add the program.
Due to syndication exclusivity rules, WGN-TV and its superstation feed WGN America have vastly different programming offerings; although the local and national feeds shared a significant amount of common programming initially after the SyndEx law was implemented, WGN-TV and WGN America's programming schedules have become increasingly disparate in recent years. As of October 2012, the only programs airing on WGN-TV (other than local newscasts and sports programming) that have been given full-signal national broadcast rights on WGN America are public affairs programs People to People and Adelante, Chicago, syndicated reruns of 30 Rock and The Bill Cunningham Show, and religious programs Singsation!, Tomorrow's World and Believer's Walk of Faith with Pastor Bill Winston.
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