A Tribute to the history of WLS-AM Radio, Chicago
WCFL [Chicago] 1984 WKKD [Chicago] 1985-1998 Now: Running Todd Beezley Audio Productions, Ltd., Roanoke, Virginia and, as Todd explains (Aug 2002), "I'm doing news reports for the daily half-hour radio show of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Decision Today. We're still in Ro...
WLS [Chicago IL] 1963 WPDQ [Jacksonville FL] 1970 WCAO [Baltimore MD] 1971-1982 Now: ??? Rip Rinehart KDKB [Phoenix AZ] 1982-1983 Now: Rip says (Sep 2002), "I am a software engineer in Austin, Texas. Peggy, my wife of 26 years, and I live on five acres just north of Austin...
Roger Ball(1955- ) was program and sales director of WJLS. He was with the station from 1975 to 1980. He had earlier worked at radio stations WKOY, WLOH/WAEY, WKJC, and WHIS in Bluefield and Princeton. After he left WJLS, he moved to Florida and became part owner and vice presid...
RADIO AND TELEVISION RECENT POSTS Killing Trib-Media In 1996 the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago-based Tribune Company (predecessor company to Trib Media), had a vision that he could create a media empire. There was a schism opening in the ownership of the Times Mirror Corporation, a ...
The Hindenburg disaster wasn’t broadcast live on radio. Morrison was on the scene to record the arrival of the Hindenburg for WLS in Chicago, but he wasn’t broadcasting live. His wrenching account would be heard in Chicago later that night, and it was broadcast nationwide the following day...
Also discussed were how key Chicago institutions such as Sears, Allstate Insurance, Hull House, WLS radio and the University of Illinois at Chicago were key to the development of the West Side, and what remains of these sites today. Noted was Carr & Wright’s 1949 former Allstate Insurance...
Sears grew rapidly, and its stores became the anchors of malls, which helped push Americans into the suburbs. 1973 Sears Tower opens Source: Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images Sears had long enjoyed superlatives. It purchased television and radio stations in Chicago under the WLS call letters...
While photographs of the event along with news reports will be immediately sent out, it would be the radio report done by WLS (Chicago) reporter Herb Morrison played the next day the most would remember.. Since live audio broadcasts were rare, he recorded what he saw about the landing. ...
Due to a polio outbreak in the fall of 1937, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) decided to postpone the start of the school year. As school buildings were shuttered, the district turned to the radio to replace classroom instruction. Radio wasn't entirely new to CPS. It had started offering...