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The station first signed on the air on May 19, 1922, among the earliest stations in Chicago. It was randomly issued the call sign WDAP, from a sequential roster of available call signs, to Mid West Radio Central, Inc. [3] This corporation was headed by Thorne Donnelley and Elliott Jenkins.
1964 station advertisement. [2]WCRW was first licensed on July 30, 1926 to Clinton R. White, a radio engineer, at 650 Waveland Avenue in Chicago's north side. [3] The station was started during a period when the government had temporarily lost the authority to assign transmitting frequencies, and at the end of 1926, WCRW was reported to be operating on a self-assigned frequency of 720 kHz ...
WLS (890 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Cumulus Media, through licensee Radio License Holdings LLC, the station airs a talk radio format. WLS studios are in the NBC Tower on North Columbus Drive in the city's Streeterville neighborhood.
Sounds of change: A history of FM broadcasting in America (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2008) Terrace, Vincent. Radio's golden years: The encyclopedia of radio programs, 1930–1960 (1981) White, Llewellyn. The American Radio (University of Chicago Press, 1947)
Consisted of 27 stations (3 owned and operated and up to 24 "phantom stations" – time leased on affiliated radio stations. WEAF chain: Broadcasting Company of America: Northeast and Midwest United States 1923–1926 Regional network of AT&T-owned radio stations with New York City radio station WEAF as its hub.
The Chicago metropolitan area is currently the third-largest radio market in the United States as ranked by Nielsen Media Research. [5] The following list includes full-power stations licensed to Chicago proper, in addition to area suburbs. Currently, radio stations that primarily serve the Chicago metropolitan area include: [6] [7]
WSCR (670 AM) – branded 670 The Score – is a commercial sports radio station, licensed to Chicago, Illinois, which serves the Chicago metropolitan area.Owned by Audacy, Inc., WSCR is a clear-channel station with extended nighttime range in most of the Central United States and part of the Eastern United States.
WEDC was an AM radio station that operated on 1240 kHz in the Chicago market.It shared this frequency with WCRW and WSBC.The three stations operated as "shared-time stations" for most of their existence, a not uncommon arrangement in the early days of radio, but very rare in later years. [1]