Bernard “Bud” Miller spent 27 years at WLS-AM as a news reporter and news director during the 50,000-watt station’s pop music heyday, working alonside well-known on-air personalities such as Larry ...

Chicago’s WLS-AM 890 is bringing back the voices that helped define Top 40 radio in the Midwest with a special two-hour program this Saturday, July 26. WLS Unwound: Personalities of the MusicRadio ...

Cumulus Media Chicago’s WLS-AM 890 marked its 100th anniversary this month. Launched on April 12, 1924, as “The Sears-Roebuck Station,” WLS-AM has transitioned from a farming station to a rock ‘n’ ...

For a century, it has served the Midwest with one of the station’s biggest AM radio signals. From the 1960s through the mid-1980s, it was one of the world’s most-listened-to Top 40 radio stations.

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 ...

LAKE GENEVA—John Gregoles hopes winning the chance to do a one-time, two-hour show on one of the biggest radio stations in America will open doors. In addition to hosting a two-hour weekend show on ...