Who owns wls

WLS-FM is just starting to try to build up an audience as a top 40 station, WLS-AM is faced in the next 10 months with the daunting task of trying to sign contentious afternoon drive hosts Steve Dahl and Garry Meier to a new contract, and both stations somehow must deal with the imminent loss in January of the morning services of superstar jock Larry Lujack, now heard on AM and FM.

Once Lujack vacates mornings, which his long-term contract allows him to do next year and which he has indicated strongly that he will do, WLS-FM will need a top-notch replacement to keep the ratings up. It will be especially difficult for the station to lure a hot FM deejay when it cannot promise him that his services will be required after half a year. Dahl and Meier are the only likely candidates to take over for Lujack in the morning on the AM band.

WLS operated their digital signal at low power 4. As a result, many viewers were not able to receive the station. WLS-TV was just one station which needed to increase its signal strength or move its frequency to solve its problems, but a power increase required making sure no other stations were affected.

WLS received a two-week experimental permit for a power increase late in June. As of June , WLS is operating both channels 7 and 44 from their auxiliary transmitting facilities at the John Hancock Center under an extension of an existing STA, while construction continues of its maximized facilities at the Willis Tower.

Through PSIP technology, both operating frequencies are re-mapped and displayed as virtual channel 7, which would cause some digital tuners to have two versions of virtual channels 7.

It is also expected that the channel 7 frequency will continue to operate, even after the implementation of the maximum power increase on channel 44 until mid-January , at the latest. The general manager from the early s to the mids was Sterling "Red" Quinlan, [1] who was a giant in early Chicago television.

The station courageously aired The Tom Duggan Show in the mids, which was the most popular show in Chicago far out drawing other network competition. The duo served as the anchormen of the station's and PM newscasts until Flynn's death in August In they were joined by John Drury, who helmed the report. For much of the s and s, it waged a spirited battle for second place in the Chicago news ratings. By a disastrous anchor change had dropped channel 7 into third place.

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