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Which Is The Greater Number?

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Schroedingers Cat

Which is the greater number, the number of times WLS-FM became WLS-FM, or the number of times Billy Martin became Manager of the The New York Yankees?

I think WLS-FM has recurred as the 94.7 call letters more than any other station in the country. Can anyone think of a another station that changed back more times to an old callsign? Seems like it has been WLS-FM six times. Say it and win...
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Which is the greater number, the number of times WLS-FM became WLS-FM, or the number of times Billy Martin became Manager of the The New York Yankees?

I think WLS-FM has recurred as the 94.7 call letters more than any other station in the country. Can anyone think of a another station that changed back more times to an old callsign? Seems like it has been WLS-FM six times. Say it and win...
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Weren't they originally WENR? Which leads me to another question. Can anyone name all the call letters that 94.7 in Chicago has had?
 
WDAI, WRCK, WYTZ. There's three without looking.

I would swear it was at least 5 times, but Wikipedia says four, but they make a lot of mistakes. You have to go to the History Card before looking in the FCC databases.

OK, I looked at the FCC CDBS listing.

WKXK, WXCD, WZZN.

So added to WENR, that's eight unique callsigns. But I don't think that's a record. But it appears that it became WLS-FM only four times.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
WDAI, WRCK, WYTZ. There's three without looking.

I would swear it was at least 5 times, but Wikipedia says four, but they make a lot of mistakes. You have to go to the History Card before looking in the FCC databases.

OK, I looked at the FCC CDBS listing.

WKXK, WXCD, WZZN.

So added to WENR, that's eight unique callsigns. But I don't think that's a record. But it appears that it became WLS-FM only four times.
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I did remember WZZN and WDAI. The others I would've had to look up. If you add in all the times it went back to WLS-FM that's alot of changes.
 
radioman148 said:
Do you remember one of the times they went back to WLS-FM and they did talk in the 90s? I think they had Robert Murphy hosting morning talk.
That format really bombed.
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That was around 1991 when 94.7 went talk and mostly simulcast WLS 890. They promoted it as “Rush Limbaugh for the Beavis and Butthead generation,” at least when it first launched. It didn’t do well, but I'm thinking the talk format on 94.7 lasted 4 or 5 years.
 
Kent said:
That was around 1991 when 94.7 went talk and mostly simulcast WLS 890. They promoted it as “Rush Limbaugh for the Beavis and Butthead generation,” at least when it first launched. It didn’t do well, but I'm thinking the talk format on 94.7 lasted 4 or 5 years.
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I'm not sure how long the talk format lasted, but I'm pretty sure Murphy was hosting morning talk around 94-95. He really sounded out of place there IMO.
 
In one of those transition periods, they experimented with "Hell 94.7" too. Not sure if the calls changed in that experiment or not.

Back when they were Z-95, it was Welch & Woody in the morning, I want to say Brant Miller mid-days, Steven Craig afternoon drive, and then crazy man Alan Kable evenings.
 
CMNTMXR57 said:
In one of those transition periods, they experimented with "Hell 94.7" too. Not sure if the calls changed in that experiment or not.

Back when they were Z-95, it was Welch & Woody in the morning, I want to say Brant Miller mid-days, Steven Craig afternoon drive, and then crazy man Alan Kable evenings.
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Didn't WYTZ have Barsky in the morning in the mid and late 80s?
 
radioman148 said:
I always thought that it was strange that Bob Sirott retired from WLS and then short time later ended up on the ABC owned FM.
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Well, Frank Sinatra retired....and then was back at work in rather short order. One could perhaps argue that Sirott is to Chicago broadcasing what Sinatra is to pop music.
 
Who was it that got into a brawl at the WLS Reunion years ago? As I recall, one of the combatants was Bob Sirrott, but I could be wrong. I'll have to ask Art Vuolo.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Who was it that got into a brawl at the WLS Reunion years ago? As I recall, one of the combatants was Bob Sirrott, but I could be wrong. I'll have to ask Art Vuolo.
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I think it was Lujack. Sirott was talking about something on the air with another host. If I remember correctly Lujack walked in the studio during the conversation and called Sirott out on something he said.
 
THe branched-off second, supposedly younger skewing WLS-FM was a couple of years at most. They still simulcast Rush and all weekend programming (alternating promos for AM and FM shows. I don't remember the full lineup because I could seldom hear it, but it was Murphy in the morning, Jay Marvin in the afternoon. Maybe Turi Ryder in the evening?


radioman148 said:
I'm not sure how long the talk format lasted, but I'm pretty sure Murphy was hosting morning talk around 94-95. He really sounded out of place there IMO.
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