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for WMAQ-TV (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
Biography"WMAQ-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 33), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States. WMAQ-TV and WSNS-TV share studios at the NBC Tower on North Columbus Drive in the city's Streeterville neighborhood and transmitter facilities atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. The station first signed on the air on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ (...). (...) [T]his changed on August 31, 1964, when the network changed the station's calls to WMAQ-TV. In January 2005, WMAQ launched digital subchannel [WMAQ-DT2] (...)." -- Wikipedia