Chicago’s WLS-AM 890 is bringing back the voices that helped define Top 40 radio in the Midwest with a special two-hour program this Saturday, July 26. WLS Unwound: Personalities of the MusicRadio ...

A reader’s question sent me down a J. Mark Powell-type rabbit hole. But first: this week’s Quiz Question. When you combine the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart and the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart ...

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Few can rival Johnny Carson’s status as a television icon, but Oprah Winfrey is one of them. Winfrey made her Tonight Show debut on January 29, 1985 seated across not from Johnny, but Joan Rivers, who ...

CHICAGO — For 33 years, he was associated with “B96,” the rhythmic Top 40 station serving the Windy City that Audacy Inc. acquired through its tax-free merger with CBS Radio. In October 2024, this ...

Chicago’s WLS-AM made significant changes to its programming lineup on Friday to further lean into heavily Conservative talk programming. The Cumulus Media station has ended The Steve Cochran Show ...

“I am told you like to publish photos of radio towers,” writes Ed Glab. “Here is a photo of the WLS tower in Tinley Park, Ill. It is my first try with my new iPhone 15 Pro. I think it turned out ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Washington Local Schools started the process to buy property that could eventually house athletic fields and a STEAM learning center, among other things. A news release from an ...

Rob Hughes is joining WLS Chicago as a weekend anchor and weekday reporter. He comes from WANF Atlanta and starts in Chicago August 21. ABC owns WLS, known as ABC 7. “Rob is a skilled and experienced ...

Former WBBM-Ch. 2 and WLS-Ch. 7 news anchor Harry Porterfield on Oct. 31 sold his longtime four-bedroom, 2,442-square-foot midcentury modern house in Gary’s Miller Beach area for $228,500. Porterfield ...

MELROSE PARK, Ill. — Anthony Alfano has done it again. The 13-year-old boy’s Halloween costume for 2022 marks another feather in his cap for creative, wheelchair-accessible costumes that have wowed ...