Outlet track record
NBC Chicago
U.S. center-left
NBC Chicago (WMAQ-TV, Channel 5) is owned by Comcast through NBCUniversal and is one of the flagship local NBC stations in the United States. Media bias trackers rate it as center to center-left, with high factual accuracy and no dedicated opinion content. Its coverage of the Trump administration's second term is largely factual and policy-focused, concentrating on how federal actions—immigration enforcement, infrastructure funding, and National Guard deployments—affect the Chicago area.
Owned byComcast Corporation, through its NBCUniversal subsidiary and the NBC Owned Television Stations division; WMAQ-TV (Channel 5) is an NBC owned-and-operated station and runs a duopoly with Telemundo's WSNS-TV (Channel 44)
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationmostly neutral
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun