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The station was first licensed on May 27, 1925, [2] as WJBI, to Harold M. Couch at 104 Summitt Street in Peoria, for 100 watts on 1400 kHz. [5] Later that year, the station was sold to the parent company of the Boston Store (a Joliet-based store unrelated to the Wisconsin Boston Stores), which changed the call sign to WCLS, standing for "Will County's Largest Store".
In 1989, the station left the Embassy Hotel for studios near Milwaukee and Bryn Mawr, on Chicago's northwest side. Daniel Lee, who was now the owner of WSBC, purchased WCRW in June 1995 for $500,000. On June 17, 1996, WCRW signed off for the last time, almost 70 years after Clinton and Josephine White initially took to the airwaves.
Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology: Variety WIJR: 880 AM: Highland: Birach Broadcasting Corporation: Regional Mexican WIKK: 103.5 FM: Newton: V.L.N. Broadcasting, Inc. Classic rock WILL: 580 AM: Urbana: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: News/Talk; Public radio WILL-FM: 90.9 FM: Urbana: The Board of Trustees of the ...
WSBC (1240 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois. It broadcasts brokered programming, mostly ethnic and religious. It is owned by Hearland Signal LLC. [4] [5] WSBC transmits with 1,000 watts. Its transmitter site is on North Milwaukee Avenue at West Catalpa Avenue in Chicago. [6] It shares its tower with sister station WCPT ...
WEDC was an AM radio station that operated on 1240 kHz in the Chicago market.It shared this frequency with WCRW and WSBC.The three stations operated as "shared-time stations" for most of their existence, a not uncommon arrangement in the early days of radio, but very rare in later years. [1]
The paper maintains bureaus in Chicago city hall and the city's federal courts building. Like its larger counterparts, the newspaper also entered into the broadcasting business in 1925 with a license to operate radio station WBCN. WBCN started broadcasting on 1130 kHz from the paper's offices at 65th and Halsted.
The station's callsign was changed to WWHN on September 14, 1987. [3] The station briefly aired an all-news format, before adopting an oldies format with the slogan "Remember When". [6] [13] [14] [15] In 1989, WWHN was purchased by Hawkins Broadcasting Corporation for $250,000. [16] [17] In 1990, the station's power was increased to 1,000 watts.
WCPT operates on 820 AM in the Chicago area. Newsweb purchased AM 850 WAIT in 2004. Newsweb also owns WSBC 1240 AM and WNDZ 750 AM, WCPY 92.7 FM and formerly owned WCFJ 1470 AM, until surrendering the station's license to the Federal Communications Commission on November 9, 2015. In May 2018, Newsweb sold WCPQ to Bible Broadcasting Network for ...