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FOX 32 Chicago
U.S. local TV news with a mainstream, center-to-center-right orientation (network-owned)
FOX 32 Chicago (WFLD) is a local TV station owned by Fox Corporation through Fox Television Stations. Its local news is mostly conventional and event-driven, focused on Chicago crime, politics, weather and consumer issues. Its recent coverage of the Trump administration, including immigration enforcement, lawsuits and media disputes, reads mostly as straight reporting, though it sometimes runs Fox network material that is more favorable to the administration.
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).
LeaningU.S. local TV news with a mainstream, center-to-center-right orientation (network-owned)
On the administrationmostly neutral
4average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun