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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
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
Herbert Morrison was an American journalist whose charged radio report on the Hindenburg disaster is recognized as a landmark in broadcasting. Decades on from his 1937 report, he became the first news
Orson Welles' radio drama "The War of the Worlds" took inspiration from Morrison's broadcast.
