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WLS-TV is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It has been owned and operated by the ABC television network through its ABC Owned Television Stations division since the station's
WLS-TV's main Eyewitness News team, 1972. Back, from left: anchor John Drury, anchor Joel Daly. Front, from left: weatherman John Coleman, anchor Fahey Flynn, sportscaster Bill Frink.
WLS-TV's street-side studios at 190 N. State Street during a 6 p.m. newscast closed to public viewing; sister radio station WMVP also maintains a streetside studio directly north in the same building.
WLS (AM)
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WLS is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Cumulus Media, through licensee Radio License Holdings LLC, the station airs a talk radio format. WLS studios are in the NBC Tower o
WLS-TV
…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, with which it shared a frequency under a time-sharing arrangement until ABC purchased a 50% interest in WLS in 1954). In February 1953, ABC merged…
The Prairie Farmer Building, home to WLS's studios from 1930 to 1960.
WLS's transmitter building in Tinley Park
On March 29, 1941, WLS and WENR moved from 870 to 890 kHz, as part of the regional NARBA reassignments
WLS weekly Silver Dollar Survey, distributed free via record stores, was retitled Silver Beatle Survey during the height of Beatlemania