With the death of Joe Patterson's sister and owner of the "Washington Times-Herald", Eleanor (Cissy) Patterson, in 1948, the Tribune Company purchased the paper and operated it until 1954, when the "Times-Herald" was absorbed by "The Washington Post". Expecting a printer's strike in November 1948, the "Tribune" printed their paper early, mistakenly proclaiming "Dewey Defeats Truman" in the 1948 presidential election. Tribune entered the television industry then in its infancy, in 1948, with the establishment of WGN-TV in Chicago in April and WPIX in New York City in June of that year. In 1956, the Tribune Company purchased the "Chicago American" from William Randolph Hearst.