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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]
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]
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.
The Banshees (band) BarlowGirl; The Barrett Sisters; BBU (band) Beach Bunny (band) Beatnik Turtle; Beethoven Project Trio; Bella Voce (group) Belmont (band) Benson Orchestra of Chicago; Big Shoulders; The Black Sheep Band; The Blacks (band) The Blank Theory; Bloodyminded; Blue Meanies (Illinois band) The Blues Brothers; Bob's Yer Uncle (band ...
Rock band Founded in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette [26] Hope in Ghosts: 2001: Rock band From Chicago The Jesus Lizard: 1987: present: Alternative/noise rock band Moved to Chicago in 1989, originally from Austin, Texas: Kids These Days: 2009: 2013: Hip hop band Founded in Chicago Kill Hannah: 1993: 2015: Rock band Founded in Chicago Krewella ...
Sagan and Neumann knew each other from growing up in Chicago's southern suburbs and have played music together since their teens. [12] In June 2017, Ratboys released their second full-length album titled GN on Topshelf Records, which began to earn the band widespread media attention from outlets like NPR, Fader, MTV, and others.
The station adopted a "beautiful country" format, playing easy listening country music, with large amount of instrumentals, in an approach patterned on the beautiful music format. [16] [17] [18] In September 1978, the station adopted a "modern country" format, with a playlist that was approximately 80% country, 20% adult contemporary.
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]