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Question about WGN

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edward1978

I have a question about WGN. Why does WGN air the Illinois Lottery drawings on it's national feed. WGN needs to stop airing the Illinois Lottery's in-state game drawings,and just show the Powerball and Mega Millions drawings on it's national feed, because nobody here in Florida don't care about the Illinois Lottery, they care about the Florida Lottery. The Florida Lottery has had Powerball since January 4th 2009 and will have Mega Millions starting on May 15th of this year.
 
They probably figure it's not a big deal since people understand that they are watching a station based in Illinois. Additionally, it's extra work with no additional revenue for the station, so why bother?
 
I am sure folks who visited Illinois and purchased lottery tickets there would want WGN-TV to continue providing the Illinois Lottery drawings through their national feed.
 
Actually, I'm with Edward on this one. If Tribune isn't going to privilege its "WGN America" viewers all ten hours of local news every day, then just go ahead and do away with the "9 O'Clock News" and get a new network name and be done with it.
 
I thought the drawings were carried since it was a local production, along with their news and baseball? I actually thought it was fun for this Connecticut resident to see an Illinois Lottery drawing...on a hotel room TV in Columbus, Ohio. :)

BTW, PowerBALL is drawn out of the Florida Lottery studios in Tallahassee. I believe Mega Millions is done from WSB-TV (ABC) channel 2 of Atlanta. Here in Connecticut, FOX of Hartford carries PowerBALL live, while they delay the Mega Millions draw until 11:22 PM ET.
 
^They have not broadcast a program by that title in years.
 
This should help explain in part why the Illinois Lottery drawings air on WGN America (scroll to page three on both PDFs):
http://www.ialottery.com/PDF/GameRules/Pick3_Rules.pdf
http://www.ialottery.com/PDF/GameRules/Pick4_Rules.pdf

In addition, the WGN-TV local feed is not carried on cable or satellite providers outside of the Chicago DMA (unless you live in Canada), and probably isn't receivable over-the-air too far past Rockford or Champaign, so some Illinois residents who want to find out about the numbers when the lottery is drawn have the option to watch them on the WGN America feed since cable providers carry the national feed at a certain distance within the state outside of the realm of the over-the-air signal.
 
Episodes of Hercules and Xena currently air on COZI-TV, NBC/Universal's Digital Classic TV Network, seen on many NBC affiliate sub-channels (KNBC 4.2 and such)
 
That reminds me of a joke I dedicate to her.


Do you know what's her favorite number, don't answer yet.


Why was 6 afraid of 7?
 
I will take a different view here. I enjoy watching a "local" station from afar. Watching local Chicago news/sports/commercials is interesting to me. Afterall, it is the 3rd largest market in the U.S. I like the ability to watch them from all over the country. Local programming can be interesting to those who are not local, though admittedly I may not be the norm.
 
searadiofreak said:
I will take a different view here. I enjoy watching a "local" station from afar. Watching local Chicago news/sports/commercials is interesting to me. Afterall, it is the 3rd largest market in the U.S. I like the ability to watch them from all over the country. Local programming can be interesting to those who are not local, though admittedly I may not be the norm.
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Maybe it's not the norm, but I enjoy doing it too...Over the years as far as the little dishes go, I had DISH and DirecTV, and "back in the day" DISH would let you pick "locals" from any city they had.....I had Orlando, San Antonio, Seattle, Dallas, Philly (not that far..but still), Denver, LA, NY, and Atlanta at various times....With DirecTV I had a different "service address" so I could get locals from NYC, or Philly, or Baltimore....
 
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