WLS (AM)

WLS (890 kHz, "Chicago's Talk Leader") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Cumulus Media, WLS has its studios in The Loop section of Chicago, and its transmitting tower is located on the south edge of Tinley Park, Illinois.

WLS broadcasts as a Class A station on the clear-channel frequency of 890 kHz with 50,000 watts of power from a non-directional tower. By day, the station can be heard around Northern Illinois, Northwest Indiana and Southeastern Wisconsin. On a good night, the signal hits much of the United States and Canada.

Programming

WLS has a talk radio format, with its weekday programming consisting of local hosts and nationally syndicated shows such as Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, "Red Eye Radio" and "First Light." Limbaugh is syndicated by Premiere Networks and the rest are from Westwood One, a subsidiary of Cumulus Media. From 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. "Big" John Howell hosts a local wake-up show. From 2 to 6 p.m. veteran Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl hosts afternoons. And another long-time Chicago radio host, Jonathan Brandmeier, is heard from 9 to 11 a.m. Brandmeier's program is based at WLS but is syndicated nationally. Weekends feature programs on money, real estate, auto repair and brokered programming. Syndicated weekend shows include Kim Komando, Bob Brinker, John Batchelor, Ric Edelman and Larry Kudlow.

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WLS-TV

WLS-TV, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 44), is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. WLS-TV maintains studio facilities located on North State Street in the Chicago Loop, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive.

History

The station first signed on the air on September 17, 1948 as WENR-TV. It was the third television station to sign on in the Chicago market (behind WGN-TV (channel 9), which debuted six months earlier in April, and WBKB (channel 4, now WBBM-TV on channel 2), which signed on in September 1946). As one of the original ABC-owned stations on channel 7, it was the second station to begin operations, after WJZ-TV (now WABC-TV) in New York City (its sister stations in Detroit, San Francisco and Los Angeles signed on within a year of WENR's launch). The station's original call letters were taken from co-owned radio station WENR (890 AM), which served as an affiliate of the ABC Radio Network (WENR would eventually merge with WLS radio, with which it shared a frequency under a time-sharing arrangement until ABC purchased a 50% interest in WLS in 1954).