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By 1968, WLS-FM expanded its hours on the air to 6 a.m. to Midnight, simulcasting WLS (AM)'s Clark Weber morning show from 6 to 8 a.m. and carrying Don McNeill's Breakfast Club from 8 to 9 a.m. In the summer of 1968, WLS-FM experimented with a locally produced underground progressive rock show. Dubbed "Spoke", and using the tag-line "The Flash ...
The year 1968 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. ... in New York, WLS-FM in Chicago, KGO-FM (now KOSF) in San Francisco, KQV-FM ...
WLS studios are in the NBC Tower on North Columbus Drive in the city's Streeterville neighborhood. The station's programming is also available in the Chicago metropolitan area via a simulcast on the HD2 digital subchannel of sister station WLS-FM. Its transmitter site is located on the southwestern edge of Tinley Park, Illinois in Will County.
John Harlan Rook (October 9, 1937 – March 1, 2016) was an American radio programmer and executive, most known for his tenure in Chicago. [1] [2] Under his guidance in the 1960s, 50,000-watt ABC-owned WLS became the highest rated station in the Chicago metropolitan area, known as one of the greatest Top 40 stations in America.
When Ken Draper was program director at Chicago's WCFL from 1965 to 1968, he hired Bishop in 1967. [6] [7] Draper then asked him to pick a last name to go with the "Jerry G." name he had been using. He and his wife flipped through the Cleveland phone book, and together settled on the name "Bishop." [3] [8]
Cumulus Media Networks was an American radio network owned and operated by Cumulus Media.From 2011 until its merger with Westwood One, it controlled many of the radio assets formerly belonging to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which was broken up in 2007; Cumulus owned the portion of the network that was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting that year.
Beginning in 1968, the station's main evening newscasts were co-anchored by Fahey Flynn, a bowtie-wearing broadcaster who had spent the previous 15 years at WBBM-TV; and Joel Daly, who was hired away by WLS from WJW-TV in Cleveland in 1967. The duo served as the anchors of the station's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts until Flynn's death in August 1983.
wls fm Richard Orlando Biondi [ 1 ] (September 13, 1932 – June 26, 2023) was an American Top 40 and oldies disc jockey . Calling himself The Wild I-tralian , [ 2 ] he was one of the original "screamers," known for his screaming delivery as well as wild antics on and off the air.