NBC Weather Plus ceased being broadcast nationally on December 1, 2008, but weather maps and traffic reports are still broadcasts as NBC plus on channel 5.2 as of January 1, 2009. Digital television receivers display WMAQ-TV's virtual channel as 5 through the use of PSIP. The station continued to broadcast its digital signal on UHF channel 29. WMAQ-TV ended analog broadcasts on VHF channel 5 on June 12, 2009, as part of the DTV transition in the United States.
On January 14, 2008, WMAQ-TV became the second television station in Chicago to broadcast news in high definition. WMAQ-TV's newscast ratings overtook those of WBBM-TV in the 1980s, but the station could not dethrone ratings leader WLS-TV during the period. The station moved from the Merchandise Mart to new studios in the NBC Tower in 1989. newscast during the 1980s, and Magers and Marin co-anchored WMAQ-TV's 10 p.m. Magers and Deborah Norville (later host of Inside Edition) co-anchored the station's hour-long 4:30 p.m. In 1975, Jane Pauley, later of NBC's Today Show, briefly co-anchored WMAQ-TV's 10 p.m. Though its role as a program provider to NBC diminished in the 1960s, WMAQ-TV gathered and distributed more than 200 feeds per month of news footage from overseas and the central United States to NBC News. WMAQ-TV gained fame for its newscasts during the 1960s, anchored by Floyd Kalber, John Palmer, Jim Ruddle, and Jorie Lueloff, with weatherman Harry Volkman (later of WBBM-TV, WGN-TV and WFLD), sports reporter Johnny Morris, and commentator Len O'Connor. Television critics referred to the broadcasts - often low-budget with few celebrity guests but a good deal of inventiveness - as examples of the "Chicago School of Television." WMAQ-TV originated several programs for the NBC television network from its studios in the Merchandise Mart during the 1950's, including Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, featuring Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison Garroway at Large, starring Dave Garroway and "Studs' Place," hosted by Studs Terkel.
The calls of its sister radio station were initially assigned by the government, but went on to form the phrase " We Must Ask Questions," which the radio station took on as its motto in the 1920s.
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Though NBC had long owned WMAQ radio (670 AM, now WSCR), it did not change the TV station's call letters to WMAQ-TV until August 31, 1964. Eight years later, it became the first station in the world to broadcast all of its programs in color. The station signed on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ, the last of Chicago's four commercial VHF stations to launch, and the third of the five original NBC owned-and-operated stations, three weeks ahead of WNBK (now WKYC-TV) in Cleveland. This section requires expansion with:further information on WMAQ-TV's station history.
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