Media outlets starting with W
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WLS-AM
WLS-AM is a commercial station owned by Cumulus Media Inc. The format of the station is news and talk. WLS-AM's tagline is "89 WLS" and their slogan "Chicago's Talk Leader." The target audience of the station is adults, ages 18 to 64. WLS-AM broadcasts to the Chicago area at 890 AM. The station is a full-power 50,000 watt AM station that can be heard in most of Illinois and Indiana, as well as southern Wisconsin, southern Michigan, eastern Iowa, northeastern Missouri, western Ohio, and the southeastern corner of Minnesota. It is a heritage station that has been broadcasting to the region since 1924. Prior to switching to its current news and talk format in 1989, WLS-AM was a rock and Top 40 station. During its heyday as a music outlet in the 1960s and 1970s, WLS-AM was one of the most popular and influential radio stations in the country. Today it is one of the most popular radio stations on the Web via its streaming audio broadcast. The station offers a digital podcast.
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WLS-AM Online
WLS-AM is a commercial station owned by Cumulus Media Inc. The format of the station is news and talk. WLS-AM's tagline is "89 WLS" and their slogan "Chicago's Talk Leader." The target audience of the station is adults, ages 18 to 64. WLS-AM broadcasts to the Chicago area at 890 AM. The station is a full-power 50,000 watt AM station that can be heard in most of Illinois and Indiana, as well as southern Wisconsin, southern Michigan, eastern Iowa, northeastern Missouri, western Ohio, and the southeastern corner of Minnesota. It is a heritage station that has been broadcasting to the region since 1924. Prior to switching to its current news and talk format in 1989, WLS-AM was a rock and Top 40 station. During its heyday as a music outlet in the 1960s and 1970s, WLS-AM was one of the most popular and influential radio stations in the country. Today it is one of the most popular radio stations on the Web via its streaming audio broadcast. The station offers a digital podcast.
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WLS-FM
WLS-FM is a commercial station owned by Cumulus Media Inc. The format of the station is classic hits. The target audience of the station is adults, ages 18 to 54. WLS-FM broadcasts to the Chicago area at 94.7 FM. WLS-FM's tagline is "94.7 WLS" and the slogan "Chicago's Classic Hits." Send PSAs that are 30 to 60-seconds in length to the station by mail. WLS-FM's original call letters were changed back from WZZN-FM in June 2008 to reflect its heritage in sister station WLS-AM, which during the 60s and 70s was renowned nationwide as a hitmaking Top 40 station with a stable of the most popular disc jockeys in the Midwest.
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WLS-TV
WLS-TV is the ABC affiliate for the Chicago market. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. WLS-TV broadcasts locally on channel 7. WLS-TV airs local news daily, mornings and evenings. Each year the station broadcasts six community parades celebrating the ethnic richness and diversity of the city. Send press releases to the assignment desk by fax and include each page with a subject heading and a page number in the right hand corner. Do not call the assignment desk at 9am CT, as the news department conducts a planning meeting at that time. The news department does NOT accept any unsolicited story ideas or submissions via e-mail; send them via fax. Press releases can be emailed to wls.planning@abc.com for non-urgent, non-breaking news. In the event of breaking news, please call +1 (312) 750 7070. ABC7 News DOES NOT accept press releases and media advisories via email . They ask that these be faxed directly to the news desk at +1 (312) 899 8019.
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WLS-TV Online
WLS-TV is the ABC affiliate for the Chicago market, airing local news daily, mornings and evenings.
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WLS2-TV
WLS2-TV is a multicast channel of WLS-TV. A multicast channel is a separate channel that shares the bandwidth of the main station but can air unique programming. WLS2-TV is the Live Well HD Network for the Chicago market. The station is owned by Walt Disney. WLS2-TV broadcasts locally on channel 7.2. The station is a home, health and lifestyle high definition digital subchannel network owned by Disney-ABC Television Group that launched on April 27, 2009.
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WLS3-TV
WLS3-TV is a multicast channel of WLS-TV. A multicast channel is a separate channel that shares the bandwith of the main station but can air unique programming. WLS3-TV is the Live Well HD Network for the Chicago market. The station is owned by Walt Disney. WLS3-TV broadcasts locally on channel 7.3. The station is a home, health and lifestyle high definition digital subchannel network owned by Disney-ABC Television Group.
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WLSC-AM
WLSC-AM is a commercial station owned by Banana Jack Productions, LLC. The format of the station is oldies. The target audience of the station is adults, ages 35 to 100. WLSC-AM broadcasts to the Loris, SC area at 1240 AM. The station's slogan is "Tiger Radio."
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WWLSD-AM
WLSD-AM is a commercial station owned by Valley Broadcasting. The format of the station is Southern gospel and religious programming. WLSD-AM's target audience is gospel music fans, ages 18 to 64, in the Big Stone Gap, VA area. The station airs locally at 1220 AM. WLSD-AM's tagline is "WLSD Gospel" and their slogan is "Where Love Sounds Different." WLSD-AM's newscasts air on the hour, every hour, ET. WLSD-AM has a sister station on WAXM-FM.