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FOX 32 Chicago

U.S. local TV news with a mainstream, center-to-center-right orientation (network-owned)

Owned byFox Television Stations, a subsidiary of Fox Corporation (the Murdoch family controls Fox Corporation). The station is a Fox owned-and-operated station and shares a duopoly with CW affiliate WPWR-TV (channel 50).

FundingCommercial. It earns money mainly from local and national advertising, plus retransmission-consent fees paid by cable and satellite providers and network affiliation economics within Fox Corporation.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

WFLD began broadcasting on January 4, 1966 as an independent UHF station owned by Field Enterprises, the company that also owned the Chicago Sun-Times. It later passed to Metromedia, and in 1986 News Corporation bought Metromedia's TV stations. Those stations became the core of the new Fox Broadcasting Company, and WFLD became a Fox owned-and-operated station. It expanded its local news operation over the years and now airs morning and evening newscasts as FOX 32, sharing Loop studios with sister station WPWR-TV. Fox Corporation was spun out of 21st Century Fox after the Disney acquisition in 2019 and is controlled by the Murdoch family, so WFLD sits in the same corporate group as Fox News Channel. Local stations like WFLD generally operate with their own news staff and a more traditional, less opinion-driven approach than the national cable channel, though Fox-wide content and corporate ownership can shape what airs. Media Bias/Fact Check rates the station generally reliable, though that is a third-party judgment. Its 2026 coverage has included Illinois and Chicago suing the administration, protests and clashes at the Broadview ICE facility, and White House press-pool disputes, mostly reported in a straightforward manner.

Sources

Profile compiled 2026-10-05; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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