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WPWR-TV, virtual channel 50 (UHF digital channel 24), is a MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated television station serving Chicago, Illinois, United States that is licensed to Gary, Indiana. It is one of two commercial television stations in Chicago that are licensed on the Indiana side of the market (alongside independent station WJYS, channel 62, in Hammond). WPWR-TV is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation, as part of a duopoly with Chicago-licensed Fox owned-and-operated station WFLD (channel 32). The two stations share studios at Michigan Plaza on North Michigan Avenue in the Chicago Loop, and transmitter facilities atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Loop business district. There is no separate website for WPWR-TV; instead, it is integrated with that of sister station WFLD.

On cable, WPWR-TV is available on Comcast Xfinity on channel 8 (SD)/184 (HD), AT&T U-verse on channel 8 SD/1008 HD, and WOW! on channel 8 SD/204 HD.

WPWR-TV sold its spectrum space in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s incentive auction,[1] and began channel-sharing with WFLD on June 11, 2018.

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