Legendary Radio Programmer Ken Draper passed away this week at age 89. Jim Hampton, who partnered with Draper throughout the 80’s to produce syndicated programs for ABC, CBS and RKO Networks, plus ...

WCFL-AM, a religious music radio station in Chicago, was converted Wednesday into adult rock station WLUP-AM as part of a merger completed between two broadcasting concerns. Heftel Broadcasting, owned ...

The voice conjures up memories of another era, a time when comedy and jazz lived side-by-side on a 50,000-watt radio station in Chicago. That AM-1000 outlet has had many lives since its halcyon days ...

Dick Biondi, an acclaimed Chicago radio personality and Radio Hall of Fame member who was the first American DJ to play the Beatles on air, died June 26. He was 90. The Chicago Tribune confirmed his ...

“I’ve always wanted to be the PD of WCFL … and now I ARE one!” So says programmer J.R. Russ. You can do that kind of thing with the Internet. Russ, a voiceover talent and consultant with various radio ...

If you grew up in the Northeast in the 1960s with a transistor radio glued to your ear, that radio might have been tuned to WABC in New York. In the Midwest, it might have been WCFL from Chicago or ...

Conflicts between broadcasters over reported interference from translator operations continue to surface. WCFL, a contemporary Christian FM in Morris, Ill., licensed to the parent of the Illinois ...

Introduction : labor and the mass media to 1925 -- The creation of WCFL, 1925-26 -- The promise of labor radio, 1927-28 -- Clear channel and other battles, 1929-32 -- "Something different into our ...