Primetime Crime and Theme Nights Fuel WGN America Viewing

For WGN America, 2017 was a year of transition followed by preparation.  A primetime lineup highlighted by such notable originals as Salem, Outsiders and Underground morphed into one featuring Cops, Blue Bloods and other popular off-network series on the crime beat.  At year's end, the network was ready to introduce a set of original primetime dramas, beginning with Bellevue and Shoot the Messenger during early 2018.  What didn't happen along the way was a decline in audience, especially among WGN America's base of more than 77 million subscribers.  Quite the contrary.