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 ...

Citadel’s WLS-AM Chicago is pulling the plug on former IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich — at least for now. Officials with WLS say they’re putting Blago’s weekly Sunday afternoon radio show on hiatus until ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Radio veteran Big John Howell will no longer be a part of ...