Chicago

===Television===
The Chicago metropolitan area is a major media hub and the third-largest media market in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvjobs.com/cgi-bin/markets/market2.cgi |title=Nielsen Media 2009–2010 Local Market Estimates |date=September 27, 2009 |work=Nielsen Media Research |publisher=Broadcast Employment Services |access-date=May 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828033056/http://tvjobs.com/cgi-bin/markets/market2.cgi |archive-date=August 28, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Each of the big four [[List of United States over-the-air television networks|U.S. television networks]], [[CBS]], [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[NBC]] and [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], directly owns and operates a [[high-definition television]] station in Chicago ([[WBBM-TV|WBBM]] 2, [[WLS-TV|WLS]] 7, [[WMAQ-TV|WMAQ]] 5 and [[WFLD]] 32, respectively). Former [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[WGN-TV]] 9, which was owned from its inception by [[Tribune Broadcasting]] (now owned by the [[Nexstar Media Group]] since 2019), is carried with some programming differences, as "[[WGN America]]" on [[Cable television|cable and satellite TV]] nationwide and in parts of the [[Caribbean]]. WGN America eventually became [[NewsNation]] in 2021.

Chicago has also been the home of several prominent talk shows, including ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'', ''[[Steve Harvey (talk show)|Steve Harvey Show]]'', ''[[The Rosie Show]]'', ''[[The Jerry Springer Show]]'', ''[[The Phil Donahue Show]]'', ''[[The Jenny Jones Show]]'', and more. The city also has one [[PBS]] member station (its second: [[WYCC]] 20, removed its affiliation with PBS in 2017<ref>{{cite web |url=https://interactive.wttw.com/faq-wycc-broadcast-mhz-worldview |title=Window to The World Communications presents WYCC MHz Worldview beginning April 23, 2018 {{!}} WTTW Chicago |work=Window To The World Communications |date=April 23, 2018 |publisher=WTTW |access-date=March 29, 2019 |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330013115/https://interactive.wttw.com/faq-wycc-broadcast-mhz-worldview |url-status=live }}</ref>): [[WTTW]] 11, producer of shows such as ''[[Sneak Previews]]'', ''[[The Frugal Gourmet]]'', ''[[Lamb Chop's Play-Along]]'' and ''[[The McLaughlin Group]]''. {{as of|2018}}, ''[[Windy City Live]]'' is Chicago's only daytime talk show, which is hosted by Val Warner and [[Ryan Chiaverini]] at ABC7 Studios with a live weekday audience. Since 1999, ''[[Judge Mathis]]'' also films his syndicated arbitration-based reality [[court show]] at the [[NBC Tower]]. Beginning in January 2019, ''[[Newsy]]'' began producing 12 of its 14 hours of live news programming per day from its new facility in Chicago.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

====Television stations====
Most of Chicago's television stations are owned and operated by the big television network companies.
They are:
*[[WBBM-TV]] (2), owned and operated by [[CBS]].
*[[WMAQ-TV]] (5), owned and operated by [[NBC]].
*[[WLS-TV]] (7), owned and operated by [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
*[[WGN-TV]] (9), an independent station owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]].
*[[WTTW]] (11), a [[PBS]] member station owned by Window to the World Communications, Inc.
*[[WCIU-TV]] (26), a [[The CW|CW]] and [[MeTV]] affiliate owned by [[Weigel Broadcasting]].
*[[WFLD]] (32), owned and operated by [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]].
*[[WWTO-TV]] (35), owned and operated by TBN, licensed in [[Naperville]].
*[[WCPX-TV]] (38), owned and operated by [[Ion Television]].
*[[WSNS-TV]] (44), owned and operated by [[Telemundo]].
*[[WPWR-TV]] (50), owned and operated by [[MyNetworkTV]] ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]), licensed to [[Gary, Indiana]].
*[[WYIN]] (56), a PBS member station owned by Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc., licensed in Gary, Indiana.
*[[WTVK (TV)|WTVK]] (59), an independent station owned by Venture Technologies Group, licensed in [[Oswego, Illinois]].
*[[WXFT-DT]] (60), owned and operated by [[Unimas]].
*[[WJYS]] (62), an independent station owned by Millennial Telecommunications, Inc., licensed to [[Hammond, Indiana]].
*[[WGBO-DT]] (66), owned and operated by [[Univision]].