With five weeks left on his contract, Garry Meier, half of the No. 2-rated afternoon radio team in the city, was unexpectedly pulled off the air by station bosses after his show Friday night as both ...

Jim Johnson was a news anchor and reporter at WLS-AM 890 in Chicago for 45 years during which he became known for providing wit and levity in programs hosted by well-known radio personalities. Johnson ...

Hearing Judy Pielach in mornings and Kim Gordon in afternoons, you might think you're listening to WGN 720-AM, where both spent decades anchoring and reporting the news. But in fact they're the two ...

University of Illinois football and basketball will move to WLS 890-AM this fall under a new five-year agreement announced Monday with the Cumulus Media news/talk station. Illini football and ...

CHICAGO (STMW) --For nearly 30 years, the husband-and-wife team of "Don Wade and Roma" entertained and informed WLS-AM (890) listeners with a longevity unique in Chicago radio history. But on Sunday ...

WLS is moving up in the Arbitron MeasureCast ratings. The AM station’s online presence was ranked No. 5 in the March numbers. WLS racked up 921,940 hours of time spent listening in March.

A reader’s question sent me down a J. Mark Powell-type rabbit hole. But first: this week’s Quiz Question. When you combine the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart and the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart ...

Chicago’s WLS-AM 890 is bringing back the voices that helped define Top 40 radio in the Midwest with a special two-hour program this Saturday, July 26. WLS Unwound: Personalities of the MusicRadio ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - As a young teenager who was at the time certain that he would be a "big time" radio disc jockey, there could not have been a better radio station role model than WLS/Chicago, ...

Looks like yet more shakeup at WLS: In Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo.org, Robert Feder reports TRN’s Erich “Mancow” Muller 2/9 was fired after 16 months as midday personality on Citadel’s news/talk ...

What do country rock, boogie blues, swing and the state of Iowa have in common? This year, they’re all part of the Iowa Rock ’n Roll Music Association’s Hall of Fame Class of 2022. And an iconic radio ...

In 1989, a brash 31-year-old program director named Drew Hayes launched a brand-new news/talk format at WLS-AM (890). Together with president and general manager Tom Tradup (and with a little help ...