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The station's initial country music competitors in Chicago were 670 WMAQ, 104.3 WJEZ, and 1160 WJJD, which switched to the adult standards Music of Your Life format within weeks of "US-99"'s debut. [38] In years when the station lacked major local competition, it has ranked as the nation's most-listened-to country station. [44] [45]
Mr. Blotto is a jam band from Chicago, Illinois. They blend hard rock, original rock, southern rock, folk music, and country rock. They formed in 1991, and continue to tour extensively in the midwest area. Along with their seven album releases and four DVDs, they have also released four "official bootleg" albums of their live recordings.
However, in 1974, the station started playing the track "Lady" by the Chicago band Styx from an older album of theirs, resulting in other stations around the country adding the song and making the track Styx' first national Top 40 hit. [70] During the 1970s WLS ran a Sunday night music interview program called "Musicpeople". [71] [72]
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WERV-FM (95.9 MHz "95.9 The River") is a commercial radio station, licensed to Aurora, Illinois, and serving the western suburbs of Chicago.It is owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. [5]
On February 2, 2004, while playing "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses, the song started slowing down, until the song was cut halfway through. After 15 seconds of dead air and a minute of stunting with radio sounds, this led to the launch of the station's new adult contemporary format as "Star 96.7".
The first was the cancellation of the network broadcast in 1952. After a few years, audiences finally began to wane, and the program ceased live performances after 1957. The show continued to air on WLS until 1959 when ABC bought the station and changed the format to Top 40 rock and roll, canceling National Barn Dance outright.
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