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The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Illinois, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations
WPNA-FM (103.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Niles, Illinois, and serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It is owned by The Polish National Alliance, through licensee Alliance Radio, LLC. It airs a mix of Polish and International contemporary Hits. WPNA-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,000 watts.
WDCB (90.9 MHz) is a non-commercial public FM radio station licensed to Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It largely airs jazz programming and is owned by the College of DuPage. Most shows are locally-hosted but some select programs come from National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX). [4]
The station continued to play Adult R&B music, but during the late evenings and weekends. In August 2011, WSRB dropped the name "Real Radio" and switched back to calling itself "Soul 106-3", but the programming was initially unchanged. [23] In 2014, the station dropped the D.L. Hughley syndicated afternoon show after only a year. (Hughley ...
In 1963 Chess Records bought the station and debuted WVON, with its programming of soul, and rhythm and blues music becoming very popular throughout the 1960s. The station's news and commentary also played an active role during the Civil Rights Movement during this era. Its present African-American-oriented talk format began in 1986.
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
Pages in category "Radio stations in Chicago" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total. ... WCFJ (Illinois) WCFS-FM; WCGO; WCHI (1490 AM) WCHI-FM;
Chicago soul is a style of soul music that arose during the 1960s in Chicago. Along with Detroit , the home of Motown , and Memphis , with its hard-edged, gritty performers (see Memphis soul ), Chicago and the Chicago soul style helped spur the album-oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s.