<\/a>The architect of the plan to transform WGN America from a superstation to a basic cable network is Peter Liguori, CEO of Tribune Media, who previously turned FX into a cable powerhouse for News Corp. Last year Liguori hired Cherniss, a former production executive at Warner Bros., to rebrand and revitalize WGN America and run the newly formed Tribune Studios in Los Angeles. The two previously worked together at FX and Fox Broadcasting.<\/p>\n\"WGNA was just kind of a nonexistent brand telecasting some Cub games and some Chicago news,\" Liguori told the media conference in New York. \"It was our thinking that there was zero doubt that we were going to go into affiliate renewals and lose WGNA. We were going to lose an asset that had 70 million homes. That is something you don't fritter away. So we made the decision to invest in it.\"<\/p>\n
Additional programming scheduled to premiere on WGN America next year includes the exclusive syndicated series \u201cPerson of Interest\u201d and \u201cElementary\u201d and another original scripted drama series, \u201cOutsiders\u201d (formerly \u201cTitans\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the first time ever, Chicago area cable viewers will be able to watch the national cable channel WGN America in addition to local Tribune Media flagship station WGN-Channel 9. Starting Tuesday, Comcast Cable systems here will begin carrying WGN America as part of their basic cable tier, including such first-run original programming as \u201cSalem\u201d... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5999,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}