(now a radio talk show host at WLS-AM) John Coleman Joel Daly Steve Dolinsky (now at WMAQ-TV) Alex Dreier John Drury Tom Duggan Roger Ebert Steve Edwards Russ Ewing Fahey Flynn Sandi Freeman Bill Frink Judie Garcia Mark Giangreco Dick Johnson Rob Johnson Jack Jones Floyd Kalber Tal Kopan Alan Krashesky (retired) Ron Magers (retired) Larry Moore (now anchor emeritus at KMBC-TV) Terry Murphy Kent Ninomiya Sylvia Perez (now at rival WFLD) Kim Peterson (now a radio talk show host at WTZA in Atlanta) Bob Petty Dan Ponce (now at WGN-TV and radio talk show host at WLS-AM) Frank Reynolds Charlie Rose Jim Rosenfield (now at WCAU in Philadelphia) Jerry Taft Rafer Weigel Tim Weigel Robb Weller Oprah Winfrey Linda Yu (retired) Indicates deceased Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Prior to February 24, 2011, WLS-DT3 carried ABC 7 News NOW, featuring local news and weather and national/sidebar content from The Local AccuWeather Channel. The ABC O&Os discontinued their Local AccuWeather channels on February 24, 2011, replacing its programming with a letterboxed standard-definition simulcast of their Live Well subchannels, though AccuWeather's content/branding agreement with ABCOTS, including WLS-TV, continued unchanged. WLS-DT3 formerly served as a charter affiliate of Laff diginet from its launch in January 2015. To accommodate the WXFT channel share which took effect in December 2017, WLS-TV discontinued the third Laff subchannel, which shifted over to a subchannel of WXFT's sister station, WGBO-DT2, and reduced the Live Well feed from a reduced-bitrate 720p broadcast to a 480i format. After WLS moved to their new channel post-spectrum transition, it soon picked up This TV after ABCOTS picked up the network for their stations in the spring of 2021. Analog-to-digital conversion WLS-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, at noon on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 52, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcast use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 7. WLS operated its digital signal at low power (4.75 kW) to protect the digital signal of NBC affiliate WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan (which also broadcasts on channel 7, but at a much higher radiated power). As a result, many viewers were