WGN-AM is a radio station working on 720 kHz in Chicago. The radio station is owned by a Tribune company, which is the holder of main assets in Chicago Tribune and Chicago Magazine locally. Main transmitter of the stations is located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The station is delivering news and talk shows and radio play-by-play home of the Chicago Cubs baseball games. WGN is certainly the most popular radio station in Chicago. Early programming was noted for its creativity and innovation.
WGN started broadcasting in the May of 1922, as a WDAP station. On June 1 1924 the station started transmitting as WGN and since that time saved the name. Even those days the organisation was massively supported by the Chicago Tribune – due to the fact that both assets have one owner.
WGN, a high-powered clear channel AM station (50,000 watts), which can not only be heard in USA, but sometimes reaches Australia and South America.
In June 2005, WGN Radio changed its slogan from "Chicago's News and Talk (and Cubs!)" to "The Voice of Chicago". In the late August 2006 word “radio” in the slogan was replaced with word “News/Talk”. |