Something a bit different. An aircheck of a legendary talk show host, on a legendary station, 78 WBBM Chicago. Jerry Williams was one of the originators of the 2-way talk radio format. His radio career spanned more than 50 years, starting in 1946 as a small station in Bristol, VA. His talk radio career took…
You may remember Bob Sirott, from his days on 89 WLS Chicago, back in the 1970s. You can hear Bob on this WLS Composite from the 1970s. He was actually on WLS from 1973, through 1979, when he left radio for television. Bob took a job at WBBM-TV in 1980. After five years at Channel 2, Sirott…
In the mid 1960s, there was nowhere easy for British youngsters to listen to rock ‘n’ rollers like The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. Commercial radio wasn’t yet an option, and the guardians of the publicly-owned British Broadcasting Corporation considered such music immoral, antisocial and unfit for public broadcast. Off shore Pirate stations…
In 1984, WLS Chicago was still cranking out the hits, on AM & FM. The winds of change would soon be blowing through WLS, but at the moment, things are still rocking. Chuck Brittain held many different shifts during his time at WLS in the 80s. Chuck was the solid, great sounding jock you could…
Something a bit different. An unscoped hour of a legendary talk show host, on a legendary station, 78 WBBM Chicago. Jerry Williams was one of the originators of the 2-way talk radio format. His radio career spanned more than 50 years, starting in 1946 as a small station in Bristol, VA. His…
The Wendy & Bill Show, has become kind of an institution in Chicago. Wendy had worked on air at The Loop on & off since 1986. Bill is a Chicago-born actor, writer, comic, studied improvisation at Chicago’s Second City Theatre. He performed there and traveled with the improv group Joint Void, then made the switch to…
