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WGN (720 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a talk radio format. WGN's studios are in the Chicago Loop , while the transmitter is in Elk Grove Village . WGN also features broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawks hockey and Northwestern University football and basketball.
From 1925 to 2014 (continuously from 1958 to 2014), the Cubs' flagship station was WGN, 720 AM, the lone radio station of the Tribune Company (which for many years simultaneously owned the Cubs, TV station WGN-TV and its national superstation, and the local newspaper from which it gets its name, the Chicago Tribune).
From 1973 until December 20, 2012, he hosted WGN Radio's "Extension 720," a two-hour discussion show with one hour reserved for call-ins. The program, which aired Sunday through Thursday (originally Monday through Friday) from 10 p.m. to midnight (an hour later than formerly), dealt with topics ranging from politics to financial investment to ...
This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning ... WGN: 720 AM: Chicago: WGNC: 1450 AM: ... 570 AM: New York City: WMCH: 1260 AM ...
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 720 kHz: [1] 720 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency. WGN Chicago and KOTZ Kotzebue, Alaska , share Class A status of 720 kHz. Because 720 kHz is a multiple of both 9 and 10, the frequency is available for use by broadcast stations in all three ITU regions .
Legendary Chicago sportscaster Jack Brickhouse, the longtime sports director (and later vice president of sports programming) for WGN-TV and sister radio station WGN 720 AM), served as the play-by-play announcer for both the Chicago Cubs and White Sox until 1967, when the White Sox (for whom Brickhouse performed play-by-play duties for home ...
Walter David Jacobson (born July 28, 1937) is a former Chicago television news personality and a current Chicago radio news personality. He currently provides opinion segments for WGN Radio AM 720. From 2010 until 2013, he was an anchor of the 6 p.m. news on WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he also had worked from 1973 until 1993.
WGN may refer to: "World's Greatest Newspaper", former slogan of the Chicago Tribune and the namesake for the WGN broadcasting outlets in Chicago, Illinois. WGN (AM), a radio station (720 AM) licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States; WGN-TV, a television station (channel 9.1 virtual/19 digital) licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States