WGN

Chicago radio station WGN (720 AM) has been the longtime broadcast home of the Chicago Cubs. They also broadcast Chicago White Sox games from 1927 to 1943 with broadcaster Bob Elson and later Jack Brickhouse. They were the first station to broadcast a Cubs game, in 1925, with pioneering broadcaster Quin Ryan behind the microphone.

Chicago television station WGN' (Channel 9) has been the longtime TV home of the Cubs. They have also aired Sox games at various times throughout the last 60 years. They were among the first stations to take advantage of the possibilities of cable television, with their programming - including broadcasts of Cubs games - being made available nationally starting in 1979 as a "superstation", alongside WTBS based in Atlanta, GA and owned by Ted Turner.

Legendary broadcasters of WGN have included Elson, Brickhouse, Harry Caray, Lou Boudreau, and Steve Stone.

Both the television and radio station are owned by the Tribune Company, who also own the Cubs. The call letters WGN is an acronym for World's Greatest Newspaper.

Related Sites

• Bob Elson and WGN-Chicago at the SABR Bio Project