On April 12, 1924, Sears, Roebuck and Company officially began broadcasting its new radio station from the Sherman House Hotel in Chicago, naming it WLS (for "World's Largest Store"), Robert Feder ...

Dick Biondi, who cheerfully entertained Top 40 radio station listeners in Chicago over six decades, died June 26 at his Chicago home, WLS 890-AM announced Saturday. He was 90. Regarded by some as the ...

For a century, it has served the Midwest with one of the station’s biggest AM radio signals. From the 1960s through the mid-1980s, it was one of the world’s most-listened-to Top 40 radio stations.

Chicago News/Talk radio station WLS 890 AM has appointed Judy Pielach as the new on-air contributor for The Bruce St. James Show. She was previously afternoon news anchor on WGN Radio. “Judy Pielach ...

Looks like yet more shakeup at WLS: In Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo.org, Robert Feder reports TRN’s Erich “Mancow” Muller 2/9 was fired after 16 months as midday personality on Citadel’s news/talk ...

The Pete McMurray Show debuts on WLS-AM 890 Saturday February 12. Longtime Chicago radio and television personality Pete McMurray will be joined by co-hosts, Chicago performer Lisa Kotara and veteran ...

This distinctive, polarizing but certifiably energetic (and for a time wildly popular) radio personality, real name Erich Muller, announced Tuesday that he would be leaving his radio home at WLS-AM ...

CHICAGO — Dick Biondi, a fixture on the radio airwaves in Chicago for nearly six decades who gained a national audience as the “King of the Oldies,” died June 26, his family said. He was 90. A cause ...

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 ...

CHICAGO With increased demands to do “more with less,” why should time be any different? Programmers and salespeople alike are challenged to find new and unique ways to more fully monetize each waking ...