Five years ago today, on the 70th anniversary of WGN-TV’s first Cubs game broadcast, this article was published.
Today, on the 75th anniversary, here’s the article again (with a few minor edits), to celebrate WGN-TV’s long and memorable history as the television home of the Chicago Cubs.
Almost all of us grew up with some form of Cubs baseball on WGN, whether it was local broadcasts in the Chicago area or the national cable/satellite version on WGN America that became popular across the country beginning in the 1980s.
It is not an exaggeration to say that WGN-TV’s telecasts of Cubs games created three or four generations of Cubs fans, largely due to day baseball.