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It's TV day at W-G-N today. WGN-TV, W-G-N's new televisionstation, will have its premiere tonight. A special programentitled "WGN-TV Salute to Chicago," beginning at 7:45 p.m., willintroduce the new million dollar video station to metropolitanarea viewers. Some 16,000 family and other viewing groups areexpected to be watching as WGN-TV inaugurates dailyprogramming.

WGN-TV operates on television channel 9. Its effectiveradiated power is 30 kilowatts, which should assure televiewerswithin 45 miles of the transmitter atop the Daily News building,400 Madison st., of clearer, sharper pictures than have beenobtainable in Chicago. (Reception, of course, is contingent onhaving television receivers properly adjusted. In many casesthis requires a check-up by a competent video service man.)

The two hour premiere will include a dedicatory ceremony anda preview of the varied video fare WGN-TV plans for televiewers. Cameras will be trained at 7:45 p.m. on the entrance to the W-G-NStudio Theater on Michigan av., where Jack Brickhouse will bestationed to interview notables as they arrive.

At 8 p.m. the cameras will pick up the official openingceremony from the studio theater. Speakers will be Col. RobertR. McCormick, editor and publisher of The Chicago Tribune; Gov.Green, and Mayor Kennelly.

Lee Bennett, W-G-N singer and master of ceremonies, thenwill lead a parade of stars before the WGN-TV cameras. Thislineup includes the Dorothy Hild Dancers and Gil Maison and hisanimal troupe from the Edgewater Beach hotel show; Tito Guizar,stage and screen tenor, now appearing at the Oriental theater;McCarthy and Farrell, disc jockey satirists, and RosalindCourtright, songstress, appearing at the Empire room of thePalmer House.

Others to be presented: Dick (Two Ton) Baker, W-G-Nentertainer; Bruce Foote, baritone of the Chicago Theater of theAir company; Georgie Gobel, rustic comedian of the Bismarck hotelshow; Art Nelson and his marionettes, who are to be featuredregularly on the station; Bob Hopkins, mimic; theSensationalists, roller skaters; Maurice and Maryes, dance team,and the W-G-N orchestra and chorus conducted by RobertTrendler.

The WGN-TV mobile unit, a television studio on wheels, willbe used to relay the entire show from the W-G-N studios to theWGN-TV transmitter, where it is to be put on their air.