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Jerry G. Bishop (August 3, 1936 – September 15, 2013) was a radio and television personality who is known for being Chicago's original "Svengoolie", and for his award-winning twelve-year stint on Sun-Up San Diego.
WUSN (99.5 FM) is a country music radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Audacy, Inc. and branded as "US 99", it is based at Two Prudential Plaza in the Loop , and transmits from atop the John Hancock Center with an HD Radio signal.
In 1925, prior to network radio or syndication, Hay brought his Barn Dance concept to Nashville, Tennessee. The result was a show called the WSM Barn Dance. It became so popular that on December 10, 1927, Hay renamed it the Grand Ole Opry. WSM became one of the first NBC affiliates in 1927, and the Opry is still on the air today.
WMAQ-TV logo, used from 1992 to 1995. The '5' in this logo, set in Helvetica, was also used from 1976 to 1985. Although NBC had long owned the WMAQ radio stations, the television station continued to maintain a callsign separate from those used by its co-owned radio outlets; this changed on August 31, 1964, when the network changed the station's calls to WMAQ-TV.
The News in Music (Tabloid Lament) (2017) by Thomas Meadowcroft is an orchestral work of TV news music specifically written for the concert hall. [16] Commissioned by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra , the work positions orchestral news music, stylistically reminiscent of TV news music cues from the 1970s and 1980s, in a live ...
Experiments carried out on the radio station after it had officially closed down for the night. [3] 1180 kHz Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: 1929 The Herald and Weekly Times: Mechanical television: W9XAP: WNBQ-TV (1948–1964) [4] now WMAQ-TV. VHF Channel 5 Chicago, Illinois, United States: August 27, 1930– August 1933. 1948-present. [5] [6 ...
In 1983, KDAY-AM became the first radio station to play wall-to-wall rap music, thanks to an ambitious new music director and some soon-to-be famous DJs.
Weigel Broadcasting Co. is an American television broadcasting company based in Chicago, Illinois, alongside its flagship station WCIU-TV (Channel 26), at 26 North Halsted Street in the Greektown neighborhood. It currently owns 25 television stations, seven digital over-the-air television networks (most notably MeTV), and one radio station.