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WCFS-FM (105.9 FM), also known as "Fresh 105.9", is an AC-formatted radio station licensed to...
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WCFS-FM (105.9 FM), also known as "Fresh 105.9", is an AC-formatted radio station licensed to Elmwood Park, Illinois and serving the Chicago, Illinois, market. It is owned by CBS Radio and is consulted by Greg Dunkin, who also holds the nationally registered Fresh FM and related trademarks.
According to the "Broadcasting Yearbook", the station's original call letters were WLEY; the LEY stood for Leyden Township where the station was located. Original programming was in English and Polish.
In a discussion at his store (Metro Golden Memories), it was noted that an early English language announcer at the station was Chuck Schaden as a visitor, then employee in the early 1960s. At the time, WLEY was located in a non-air-conditioned three-room shack behind an awning store near Grand and Harlem in Elmwood Park, Illinois. The broadcast tower is still there on the west side of Harlem Ave, but the WCKG transmitter relocated to the Sears Tower, one of the first to use its broadcast facility.
The Broadcasting Yearbook notes that WXFM was originally a local station for Elmwood Park. It was broadcast on 107.1 in the early 1950s, moving to 105.9 by 1960. When the FCC shut down Chicago FM WCLM
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Freebase Data Team
Oct 23, 2006
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