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 ...

Dolly Parton’s death on Tuesday has touched off a national emotional tidal wave across America and around the world. Unlike ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...