WRHS-TV is an Educational-access television station Norridge, Illinois

Norridge, Illinois

Norridge is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14,582 at the 2000 census. The current Mayor of Norridge is Ronald A. Oppedisano.The village is completely surrounded by Chicago and Harwood Heights.-Name origin:...

, in the Chicago

Chicago

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 metropolitan area. It is owned and operated by Ridgewood High School

Ridgewood High School (Illinois)

Ridgewood High School, or RHS, is a public four-year high school located in Norridge, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States...

, and it broadcasts from the campus in Norridge, Illinois

Norridge, Illinois

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History

WRHS-TV was originally broadcast channel 73. It began operations in 1969. It moved to cable TV channel 3 on Illinois Cable.

In 1986, WRHS moved to channel 4 (sharing time with CLTV

CLTV

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 starting on January 1, 1993. WRHS then moved to channel 96 when Metrovision Cable created the South region of Chicago, Illinois suburbs. It included the following suburbs: Berwyn, Blue Island, Brookfield, Crestwood, Harwood Heights, Hickory Hills, Melrose Park, Midlothian, Norridge, Northlake, Orland Hills, Palos Hills, Posen, Robbins, Stickney, Tinley Park, and Worth, Illinois. WRHS reached 73,451 subscriber households.

WRHS moved back to cable channel 4 on January 6, 1999 on Time Warner Cable, AT&T Cable Services, AT&T Broadband and has been cable channel 19 since February 14, 2004. In Chicago, their permanent time slot on Saturday mornings at 10:00 AM began on October 25, 2008.

Programming

WRHS Television airs programming on Comcast

Comcast

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 Cable Channel 19 on Thursdays from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. They also air a half hour version on Chicago Access Network Television

Chicago Access Network Television

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(CAN) on Channel 19 Saturday mornings from 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM in Chicago. WRWX-TV 4 is a secondary channel programmed by the Multimedia Club at Ridgewood High School.

Since August 24, 2004, WRHS Television has aired on Thursdays from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Comcast Cable channel 19 in the following suburbs: Bedford Park, Bellwood, Bensenville, Unincorporated Bensenville, Berkeley, Bolingbrook, Berwyn, Bloomingdale, Bridgeview, Broadview, Brookfield, Burbank, Burr Ridge, Carol Stream, Cicero, Clarendon Hills, Countryside, Unincorporated Countryside, Crest Hill, Darien, Downers Grove, East Joliet, Elmhurst, Unincorporated Elmhurst, Elmwood Park, Forest Park, Forest View, Frankfort, Frankfort Township, Franklin Park, Glendale Heights, Harwood Heights, Hillside, Hines Hospital, Hinsdale, Unincorporated Hinsdale, Hodgkins, Homer, Homer Township, Itasca, Joliet Township, Unincorporated Joliet, Justice, Lemont, Lockport, Lockport Township, Lombard, Unincorporated Lombard, Lyons, Unincorporated Lyons Township, Maywood, McCook, Medinah, Melrose Park, Midlothian, Mokena, New Lenox, New Lenox Township, Norridge, North Riverside, Northlake, Oak Brook, Oakbrook Terrace, Oak Park, Plainfield, Plainfield Township, River Forest, River Grove, Roselle, Romeoville, Rosemont, Schiller Park, Shorewood, Stone Park, Summit/Bedford Park, Villa Park, Warrenville, West Chicago, West Joliet, Westchester, Westmont, Unincorporated Will County, Willow Springs, Willowbrook, Wood Dale, Woodridge, Winfield, portions of Addison, Naperville, Oswego, Plano, Sandwich, Yorkville, West Joliet, Wheaton, and Wheatland, Illinois. WRHS Television can be seen by nearly 4 million people.

Series

• The Scoop, student talk show
• Just Kidding Around, children's program
• The World As We See It, news talk show
• Local Legends, local celebritiy based talk show
• The Ridgewood Reporters, newscast
• WRHS Rebel Sports, sports program
• Judicial Perspective, from the Illinois Judges Association
• Illinois Law, from the Illinois State Bar Association
• Class Act, student films
• Hungry Hearts, soap opera with Columbia College Chicago
• Music Alive, live event music performance show with Columbia College Chicago
• The Music Edge live event music performance show and music videos

Current

• Joanne Dynak, The Scoop
• Rich Massaro, The World As We See It, Local Legends

Station slogans

• Taking It To the Edge
• Still Talking It To the Edge
• Number One, The Only One
• Go Green (2007–2008)
• TV Worth Watching (2008–2009)
• Hear Our Rebel Yell (2009–2010)
• Rebels Rule The Air (2010-2011)