WLS is a Chicago radio station. The call letters stand for World's Largest Store (for its original owner, Sears, Roebuck). The station operates on an AM clear channel frequency of 890 kHz with a power of 50,000 watts, with IBOC during the day, and C-QUAM AM Stereo at night (as of 2007). Its transmitter and towers are located in Tinley Park, Illinois.
WLS is currently a talk radio station, with its programming consisting of about half local talk s...
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WLS is a Chicago radio station. The call letters stand for World's Largest Store (for its original owner, Sears, Roebuck). The station operates on an AM clear channel frequency of 890 kHz with a power of 50,000 watts, with IBOC during the day, and C-QUAM AM Stereo at night (as of 2007). Its transmitter and towers are located in Tinley Park, Illinois.
WLS is currently a talk radio station, with its programming consisting of about half local talk shows, featuring "Don Wade and Roma", "Erich Mancow Muller," and "The Roe Conn Show," and the rest syndicated programming featuring Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Adam Bold and others. WLS also covers Notre Dame football and basketball.
WLS had been owned and operated by the radio division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) since the purchase of its parent company in 1959 and the subsequent merging with WENR, a station with which WLS had shared its frequency since the 1920s. ABC-owned radio stations not affiliated with ESPN...
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