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WLS is a pioneer Chicago radio station. The call letters stand for World's Largest Store after its original owner, Sears, Roebuck. The station operates on an AM frequency of 890. It is now owned and operated by the radio division of the American Broadcasting Company. Its transmitter is located in Tinley Park, Illinois. Sears opened the station in 1924 as a service to farmers and subsequently sold it to the Prairie Farmer Magazine , which continued that orientation through 1960. It was the scene of the National Barn Dance, which featured Gene Autry, Pat Buttram , and George Gobel, and which was second only to the Grand Ole Opry in presenting country music and humor.
The station also experimented successfully in many forms of news broadcasting, including weather and crop reports. Its most famous news broadcast was the report of the Hindenburg disaster by Herbert Morrison.
In 1960, the station became a Top 40Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. The term is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. History A music radioCommercial music radio is a radio format that plays popular music in a manner intended to increase profitability of advertisers, thereby increasing the value of the station's advertising, and the station's profits. Disk jockeys do this by trying to arrang station, notable for such disc jockiesFor other meanings of DJ see DJ (disambiguation). A disc jockey (often DJ or deejay is an individual who selects and plays pre-recorded music for the enjoyment of others. In circles and cultures where reggae and related musical styles are prevalent such a as Dick Biondi and Larry LujackLarry Lujack (born June 6, 1940), a Top 40 Music radio disc jockey who was a precursor to the shock jocks of the 1990s, is known for his sarcastic style, "Klunk letter of the day," and humorous "Animal Stories. He was born in Iowa as Larry Blankenburg, at. WLS became a talk station in 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra.
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