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  WLS (AM) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The station operates on an AM frequency of 890 kHz.
Starting in the 1930s, WLS had been an affiliate of the Blue Network of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and as such aired the popular Fibber McGee and Molly and Lum and Abner comedy programs (both produced at the studios of Chicago's NBC-owned stations, WENR and WMAQ) during their early years.
WLS and the other OandO ABC Radio Network stations not affiliated with ESPN Radio or Radio Disney are part of the transaction in which ABC Radio is to be merged with Citadel Broadcasting.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WLS_(AM)   (643 words)

  
 WLS, the Prairie Farmer station
From 1928 until the spring of 1960, WLS (which went on the air in 1924) aimed its programming at the farm families of the prairies of the Midwest.
Sharing (until the the mid-50's) the 870 (and later 890) spot on the dial with WENR, WLS was one of the nation's great broadcast stations.
Featuring a wealth of material about WLS artists, staff (and their families), it was as indispensible on the farm as the Sears Roebuck catalogue.
www.richsamuels.com /nbcmm/wls/contents.html   (559 words)

  
 WLS Musicradio The Big 89.
Many other renown artists would make their way through the doors of WLS, whether it be for a live interview or to appear on Musicpeople.
WLS inaugurated several of the park's rides including "The Tidal Wave" (1978), "The American Eagle" (1981) and "The Edge" (1983).
The WLS "touch-tone" alerted listeners to be the "...15th caller at 591-30-89" to win just about anything under the sun.
www.wlshistory.com /WLS70   (1122 words)

  
 Chicago Radio History
Chicago began to feature stations on the AM dial from the very beginning of commercial radio, which was the early 1920s.
WLS entered the Chicago radio dial in 1924 at 500 watts.
WLS had an early home at 870 AM but moved to 890 in the FCC reallocation of 1941.
www.tangentsunset.com /chicagoradiohistory.htm   (1757 words)

  
 WLS Chicago Radio Timeline ...
WLS announcer Herb Morrison and engineer Charles Nehlsen were making a disc recording and thus were able to capture the event "live" as it happened.
In the fall of 1960, WLS moved from 1230 W. Washington Street to The 5 th Floor of the Stone Container Building at 360 North Michigan Avenue.
By 1969, WLS was making it's transition towards the 1970's with a new slogan.."Musicradio 89" and a new Dj lineup,except for Art Roberts who left in 1971.
www.radiotimeline.com /am89wls.htm   (809 words)

  
 Impressions from a 6 year gastric bypass post op
WLS is been made popular recently because of the so-called "obesity epidemic".
I am part of many online and local support groups, and the only cheerleaders I see or hear from are those who are only a relatively short number of years post-op.
The medical field would like us to believe that WLS made them so healthy that they are enjoying life so much that they just don't have time to communicate with new post-ops anymore.......they are "getting on with life".
gastricbypass.netfirms.com /chrissie.htm   (2381 words)

  
 WLS AM Stereo 89 - The Rock of Chicago! (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The show was heavily laden with disco hits (as was the "WLS Rock Hall of Fame" earlier in the year), but for most of them, this would be the last time they would be heard on the station.
WLS also broadcast the group Chicago benefit concert live from the Park West in 1982.
Subsequent weekends were filled with memories as former WLS jocks returned to The Big 89 to reminisce by playing old airchecks and jingles, recant old stories and take calls from fascinated listeners.
www.wlshistory.com.cob-web.org:8888 /WLS80   (2072 words)

  
 My Journal
I am in touch with about three people who have had the surgery and one woman I am going to talk to on the telephone Sunday morning.
WLS and he wanted to see how my digestion was coming along.
I am curious as to whether he uses 4 rows of staples or one row of staple on the staple line.
www.fortunecity.com /healthclub/stress/417/journal.htm   (3599 words)

  
 WLS/WCFL
Was bought out of his contract when WLS went talk.
He really made his mark at KGO as a talk show host and then as the reigning morning news anchor when KGO went "newstalk." (KGO, as you might know, has been #1 in every book for some 16 years.) He also co-hosted a morning talk show on KGO-TV for many years.
Joel Sebastian, WLS and WCFL: Joel worked in both NYC and Chicago at a number of radio stations, including WINS (1-4p until their shift to all-news in 1965), WMAQ and WKQX in the Windy City, WNEW-AM, WHN and WNBC (weekends).
www.tripprogers.com /wlswcfl.htm   (910 words)

  
 Jeff Roteman's WLS Page - WLS Memories Page # 1
I used to have a cassette recording of WLS radio from around 1974 that featured a track with the music of the song Autobahn, however, the lyrics were different.
Now WLS is at 190 N State,but I wonder what now occupies their old studios on the 4th(WLS-FM) -and- 5th(WLS-AM)floors in the old Stone Container Building at 360 N Michigan.I think Paul Harvey is on the 5th floor."...
I was born and raised in the burbs of Chicago.
user.pa.net /~ejjeff/wlsmem1.html   (2581 words)

  
 A quick history lesson on Chicago's 94.7 FM.
Bob Sirott was hired as morning man, but was unable to start for several months, due to his contractual obligations that still remained after he had left WLS at the end of 1979.
The music was adjusted to sound like the AM programming and morning and evening drives were simulcast.
Steve Dahl (along with Garry Meier) returned to the station in 1981 for afternoon duty after being fired from The Loop for "assaulting community standards." They were moved to AM by 1985.
www.scottchilders.com /timecapsule/TC947.htm   (1166 words)

  
 WLS-TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Since 1968, WLS and sister station KGO-TV were among the earliest ABC OandOs to use the Circle 7 logo.
WLS, like the other ABC owned-and-operated stations, adopted the Eyewitness News format in the late 1960s after it became a hit at flagship WABC-TV in New York.
Drury and Mary Ann Childers were a popular anchor team at WLS during the 1980s and 1990s, accompanied by weatherman Steve Deshler and sportscaster Tim Weigel.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/WLS-TV   (1415 words)

  
 WLS-AM news director heads to New York station | Crain's Chicago Business
Scott, 44, arrived at WLS in 1993 and has been news director since 1997 and morning news anchor since 1999.
He said he had planned to spend the rest of his career at WLS but was contacted by WCBS.
"The decision to leave WLS and Chicago was not an easy one, but I'm real excited about the opportunities that await me in New York," he said.
chicagobusiness.com /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=21919   (319 words)

  
 TV Barn
WLS is what WDAF once was -- one of the great AM radio stations in the country, having transitioned from rock to talk in the 1990s.
The station, which was an AM giant for years before moving to FM, replaced Harvey with a two-minute comedy bit from Jeff Foxworthy.
This is the week when the TV season begins in earnest, with a slew of new shows and an even slewier slew of returning series.
blogs.kansascity.com /tvbarn/2006/week38/index.html   (3205 words)

  
 wls: Question for the community,...
One Dr. (all you in Seattle probably know him as the exercise Nazi) even required that his patients start walking every day for 45 minutes, and are required to shrink their liver and lose weight prior to even setting a surgery date.
That said, I am having the surgery in 2 weeks, and haven't done anything to physically prepare for the day.
I am now going in again to have my staples fixed as my pouch opened, this is my second time having it fixed.
community.livejournal.com /wls/3119930.html   (1826 words)

  
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ABC states that in the Chicago market there are at least 58 AM stations, 62 FM stations, for a total of 120 radio stations, and 16 television stations, licensed to at least 88 separate owners (57 commercial and 31 noncommercial).
Additionally, ABC reports that the cable penetration in the Chicago television market is 63% and that the Chicago market is served by 35 daily newspapers and 24 national magazines.
However, there are four AM stations in the Chicago market with technical facilities comparable to WMVP(AM) and at least ten commercial Class B AM stations whose facilities are comparable to WRDZ(AM)'s facilities.
www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/1999/da990613.txt   (2425 words)

  
 PunchtheBag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Zemira Jones, president and general manager of WLS, denied a published report that "the door at the station is being held open" for Meier by Conn. "After making a final offer to Garry Meier and not receiving a timely response, we have withdrawn the offer with finality," Jones said.
Meanwhile, Roe had been promising listeners that the team was going to stay intact whether at WLS or some other Chicago station.
Last report I heard WLS was offering $1.5 million to each of them.
www.punchthebag.com /archives/000335.html   (289 words)

  
 Steve Scott's Blog
When the deal becomes final later this year, WLS and ABC Radio will no longer be part of Disney.
Congratulations to WLS talk host Eileen Byrne on her engagement to her long-time beau, Jeff.
I don't know what was in the water at the United Center Wednesday night...but the Bulls/Knicks game was one of the strangest I've seen in a long time.
stevescottblog.blogspot.com   (1274 words)

  
 WLS RADIO (CHICAGO) DUMPS "SKI" ANDERSON (This is Really Good News)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Michael Packer, operations director of WLS, is expected to announce a replacement for the noon-to-3 p.m.
Since Sean Hannity is replayed for 3 hours on Saturday nights on WLS AM 890, Coast to Coast AM should be played on Ski and Skinner's former time slot on Sunday.
He was on WLS when I lived in Chicago from 1997-1999.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/992195/posts   (2342 words)

  
 Diana's WLS Journey
I am sitting at 43.  I have corresponded with one of Dr. A's former patient's and she has enlightened me to the long process.  Appointments with a Nutritionalist,  a endocrinologist and a respirologist.  I am so petrified that my medicated bought with depression last year will be detrimetal in some way.
BC medical states something to the fact that you cannot be suffering from depression to be considered for surgery.
I am now on orders to start a soft  fitness program that will sustain me right through the pre-op and the post-op period.
cupidskiss1.homestead.com /DianasWLS.html   (1709 words)

  
 Weight Loss Surgery Coach: Pre-Op Prep for WLS
For folks whose surgery date is rapidly approaching, I am also offering a "fast track" six week group (PP101), that will convene twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for just six weeks.
I am a knowledgeable and experienced group facilitator, coach, counselor, and mediator who has lost 160 pounds, and transformed my health and fitness, in the first year after my WLS.
You will also have bonded with a peer group sharing your goals, challenges and experiences who may continue to be a powerful support and resource for you during your WLS recovery.
www.weightlosssurgerycoach.com /preop_prep_wls.shtml   (839 words)

  
 The Faces of Weight Loss Surgery
I am endeavoring to be a loser by having laproscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery.
Detailing the story of a 500 pound young woman going through WLS to regain her life and her freedom.
I am so happy with my life right now and only see a bright future on the horizon with every passing pound.
b.webring.com /hub?ring=wlssring   (1906 words)

  
 WLS, 890 AM - Chicago's Talk Station (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
WLS Inside Store Certificates are now available for more than 1/2 Off!!
Become a WLS Insider and win a loved one, or yourself, a "Christmas Kisses" Bear from Vermont Teddy Bear.
Take a look at the special deal Your Man Tours has for WLS listeners.
www.wlsam.com.cob-web.org:8888   (474 words)

  
 Tuff Toe-Nail WLS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
I think I am done loosing now which is fine with me. For my height and stuff I feel fine and look fine I think.
I DO try to keep my obesityhelp file updated so you can go there to see what is new if you are that interested...Also, new pics are up as well on my photo album.
Since I am allergic to latex, the secondary precaution was not even a valid issue even if I DID know about the 80% of bariatric women who get preggo ON the pill after surgery!
ttnwls.blogdrive.com   (498 words)

  
 TomRoeser.com
Perhaps it was a miscommunication, perhaps it was a failing of this hard-of-hearing senior citizen, but State Senator Peter Roskam’s office called on Friday to say that he believed he had been scheduled for the Sunday a week later-and also, it was not only Father’s Day but his wedding anniversary.
Mike Noonan is just about the best performer a talk radio host can have because he’s contentious, candid, revelatory and of great experience at a tender age.
WLS Sunday Night Political Shootout with Roskam vs. Noonan.
www.tomroeser.com /?categoryID=90   (1679 words)

  
 Commercials on WLS 890 AM
Commercials on WLS 890 AM 3/16/05 - We are currently performing maintenance on our servers.
Today's Commercials on WLS 890 AM To visit an advertiser's website click on the Advertiser column.
Click Radio Commercial Search to browse all of the commercials and ads in your area, read descriptions of each station's commercials, and find phone numbers and/or website address links for the ads you heard.
www.ontheradio.net /commercials/wlsam.aspx   (233 words)

  
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Employed by Metro Networks as the Traffic Reporter for the Roe Conn Show, this individual was already a crucial and integral part of the show.
WLS Management actively sought to make her a full-time employee of the station.
During negotiations, WLS made the effort to widely recruit for this position in the event that the Wehde’s did not re-sign.
images.radcity.net /5150/1081476.doc   (3511 words)

  
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While the show focuses on questions from WLS listeners about what to buy or lease and a multitude of other automotive questions, "Drive Chicago" also includes topical guests from the industry to share their points of view or to give fresh information and excitement about new vehicles on the way to customers.
Every year the show originates from the floor of the Chicago Auto Show for two four-hour specials that are always filled with plenty of automotive "star power" and excitement.
In February, WLS originated 28 hours of programming from the floor of the auto show.
cata.drivechicago.com /default.aspx?PageCode=WLS   (276 words)

  
 WLS Journey Pg 2
am eating LESS than I was earlier on in my journey as a post-op.
Here it is a beautiful sunny day outside, and I am sitting on my couch fighting the urge to go curl up in my bed and go back to sleep.
I am scared to uproot and move across the country.
abutterflyemerges.com /wlsjournal2.htm   (17792 words)

  
 WLS, 890 AM - Chicago's Talk Station
--> Now, just in time for the holidays, WLS is upping the ante...
Join WLS and morning Traffic guy Mark Napoleon at JoS.
Our WLS destination host gives you ideas about where to go, where to stay, and how to make the most of your next trip!
www.wlsam.com   (464 words)

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