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Category: Chicago
Larry Lujack, WLS AM & FM Chicago | January 1984
In the final segment, Tommy Edwards arrives for another exciting edition of “Animal Stories”
Herb Kent, 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…
Jerry Williams, Chicago Riot Coverage & MLK Tribute, 78 WBBM Chicago | April 5 1968
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…
Bob Sirott, FIRST SHOW on 720 WGN Chicago | January 6, 2020
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…
Ellie Dylan, 670 WMAQ Chicago | February 13, 1975
Helped in no small part to the “WMAQ’s Gonna Make Me Rich” contest, WMAQ easily became Chicago’s favorite Country station.
Roy Stingley, 1160 WJJD Chicago | March 13, 1972 – 9:45 to 10:30 AM
Despite this being a morning show in the city of Chicago, there is only a modest amount of advertising.
Salute to American Radio, BBC Radio 1 London | July 4 1976
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…
Chuck Britton, 94.7 WLS-FM Chicago | Winter 1984
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…
