This won't be for everyone, but those who owned a C-Band satellite dish back in the day or subscribed to early cable certainly remember WGN-TV. "Chicago's Very Own" Channel 9 was a pioneer so-called "superstation" when it went on the satellite for the first time in the late 70s.

The station is doing a 75th Anniversary tribute to itself and reveals in a 12-minute video in the linked article that not only didn't it want to be uplinked to be seen by all of North and parts of South America, at first it didn't even know it was on the big bird at all. What happened next, as seen in the report, is TV history. Along with a local Chicago anchorman who suddenly and unexpectedly found himself a huge celebrity - in Belize!

‘Chicago’s Very Own’ goes national: The rise and fall of the superstation