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Category: Chicago
B96 WBBM-FM Chicago Station Composite | 1983
Radio Station: WBBM-FM Chicago Frequency: 96.3MHZ Format: Contemporary Hit Radio Courtesy: Kipper McGee After his success with his Hot Hits format at WCAU-FM Philadelphia, WBBM hired Mike Joseph to bring the Hot Hits format to Chicago in 1982. By 1983, WBBM-FM was already moving away from the Hot Hits moniker, but a lot of the…
Jerry Williams discusses format change rumors for 780 WBBM Chicago | August 2 1967
Radio Station: 78 WBBM Chicago Frequency: 780 kHZ Format: Talk Jerry Williams known as “The Dean” of Talk Radio. He is one of the originators of the talk radio format. Jerry spent nearly half a century doing talk radio. He spent most of his career at several legendary Boston radio stations, including; 1510 WMEX; 1030…
Captain Whammo, WMET Chicago | April 1978
DESCRIPTION WCFL on 1000 AM was a 50,000 watt radio station owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. WCFL aired a Top 40 format from 1962 to 1976, when the station changed formats to Beautiful Music. BM was a format featuring mainly instrumental background music and it was mainly a format heard on FM stations.…
Herb Kent on 1450 WVON Chicago | April 1970
Herb Kent, “The Cool Gent,” spent decades on air, most of that time in Chicago. His radio career started in 1940s, and went right to the day he died in 2016. In the 1940s, Kent received his first paid radio job at WGRY in Gary, for $35 dollars a week. He went on to work at…
Herb Kent on V103 WVAZ Chicago | July 17, 2016
Herb Kent, “The Cool Gent,” spent decades on air, most of that time in Chicago. His radio career started in 1940s, and went right to the day he died in 2016. In the 1940s, Kent received his first paid radio job at WGRY in Gary, for $35 dollars a week. He went on to work…
John Records Landecker, Oldies 104.3 WJMK Chicago | April 1996
If you ran down the list of radio stations where John Records Landecker work, it would be a list of some of the greatest stations in America. WTRX Flint, WERX Grand Rapids, Philadelphia’s iconic WIBG Radio 99 (Using the name Scott Walker). There was also Toronto’s CFTR 680, mornings in Cleaveland at Power 108 WPHR,…
Herb Kent, WVON 1450 Chicago | February 1965
Herb Kent, “The Cool Gent,” spent decades on air, most of that time in Chicago. His radio career started in 1940s, and went right to the day he died in 2016. In the 1940s, Kent received his first paid radio job at WGRY in Gary, for $35 dollars a week. He went on to work…
Pat Dawsey, Z-Rock 106.7 WZRC Chicago | February 1987
Back in the mid-1980s, many Rock radio stations were ignoring songs on the harder end of the Rock music spectrum. This left the door open for Z Rock to fill the void. Z Rock was a nationally syndicated radio network that played hard Rock & Heavy Metal music, from 1986 to 1996. The format…
