WGN-TV Historical Photo Gallery: 1940s
"At Home with Barbara Barkley," is televised before a live studio audience at Goldblatt's in the Loop.
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1. "At Home with Barbara Barkley," is televised before a live studio audience at Goldblatt's in the Loop.
2. No baseball broadcaster has televised as many games as Jack Brickhouse, the Baseball Hall-of-Fame broadcaster who made the exclamation "Hey, Hey!" famous. Brickhouse covered sports for Chicago's WGN-TV and WGN Radio, beginning with Channel Nine's first telecast in 1948.
3. The opening for "Chicagoland Newsreel."
4. The title screen to a news story about a woman's hat with a train that runs around the brim.
5. WGN cameras capture the latest news.
6. The Chicago Tribune hypes the College Football All-Star Game.
7. The College All-Stars face the NFL champion Eagles.
8. Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick
9. WGN was an early participant in the defunct DuMont network.
10. A Wrigley Field camera focuses on the action.
11. Jack Brickhouse broadcasts from the booth at Wrigley Field.
12. Chicago White Sox players at old Comiskey Park.
13. A version of the classic Indian test pattern.
14. People line up to watch WGN's opening night of broadcasting.
