" Talk Radio " host John Williams, of Chicago's WGN 720 AM, has used " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " from Life of Brian in a segment of his Friday shows.

The first soap opera, Clara, Lu, and Em was introduced in 1930 on Chicago's WGN.

The show was heavily advertised, particularly on Chicago's WGN television station.

Through Tribune Broadcasting, the company operates 23 television stations, WGN America on national cable, and Chicago's WGN radio.

The program made its " national " debut in 2004 on Chicago's WGN-TV and its sibling station, now known as WGN America.

During this period, the show was broadcast on Chicago's WGN ( AM ), one of the founding members of the Mutual Broadcasting System.

Coinciding with the hire of Jarrett for mornings, WGN dropped their " News / Talk 720 " identification and began identifying itself simply as " Chicago's WGN Radio 720.

** wgngold. com: The History of Chicago's WGN Radio 720 — history and archive site owned by the radio station

In December 2005, WGN-TV ran a primetime special called Bozo, Gar and Ray: WGN TV Classics, which carried the earliest known saved clip of the show, wherein Garfield Goose had " luckily " gotten hold of tickets to the 1959 World Series at Chicago's Comiskey Park.

One of very many adaptations of the work, this version was frequently revived in theatres by MGM, was shown on local television stations throughout the 1960s, and was once a staple of Chicago's WGN television station.

Developed at the Blackett, Sample and Hummert advertising agency in Chicago, Captain Midnight began as a syndicated show in 1938, airing through the spring of 1940 on a few Midwest stations, including Chicago's WGN.

WGN America carries a variety of programming consisting mainly of recent and classic off-network sitcoms, drama series and feature films, along with some locally-produced programming supplied by WGN-TV / Chicago ( including televised games from Chicago's Major League Baseball and NBA sports teams, local newscasts, public affairs programs and occasional specials ).

In 2001, the superstation feed was rebranded as WGN Superstation, before rebranding again as Superstation WGN in November of the following year, coinciding with the introduction of WGN-TV Chicago's current logo.

*" Chicago's Very Own " ( 1983 – present ; used during WGN newscasts )

A few days later, officials at Chicago's WGN heard about Elson's victory and wondered what a Chicago native was doing broadcasting for a St. Louis station.

Although denied airtime on WGN, he was successful in obtaining a twice-daily slot as an radio evangelist on Chicago's WCFL.

WNUR 89. 3 FM (" Chicago's Sound Experiment ") is another source for free improvised music on the radio.

AM radio programmers around the United States took note when a song from the LP, " Suzie Q ", received substantial airplay in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as on Chicago's WLS.

On October 29, 1995, as part of a nationwide celebration of the 75th anniversary of radio, he was posthumously inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcasting Communication.

* Wally Phillips, former morning personality for Chicago's WGN-AM radio, used to play " The Dark " every year on Halloween.

The company entered broadcasting in 1924 by purchasing WDAP, one of Chicago's first radio stations.

* Mike Murphy ( sports radio personality ) ( born 1951 ), nicknamed " Murph ", radio talk show host on Chicago's WSCR 670 The Score

He gained a measure of public recognition during the 1930s as a frequent participant in the University of Chicago's regular Round Table radio broadcasts.

He continued this free " behind the scenes " U-stream show for his listeners and fans in June 2010 he got his own radio program on Chicago's Progressive Talk as host of The Hal Sparks Radio Program ( megaworldwide ), which broadcasts between 11am and 1pm each Saturday.

Through his long association with Chicago's Civic Opera, he thought the new medium of radio broadcasting would be a way to bring opera performances into people's homes.

It was Chicago's first radio station.

Collins would become Chicago's top-rated morning radio host until his death in 2000.

Arch Oboler, who took over the writing of Lights Out when Cooper left, would suggest that Cooper was the first person to create a unique form of radio drama, writing, " Radio drama ( as distinguished from theatre plays boiled down to kilocycle size ) began at midnight, in the middle thirties, on one of the upper floors of Chicago's Merchandise Mart.

As a chamber music performer, Pricope has performed extensively, including with members of the Chicago Symphony on Chicago's WFMT radio.

" premiered on Chicago's B96 radio on May 17, 2004.

He performed live on Chicago's B96 radio station on the day of release, and toured extensively in support of the album.

He later moved to one of Chicago's only dance-format radio station, WKIE otherwise known as Energy 92. 7.

Describes itself as “ Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program ” and “ News by working people for working people .” Airs on Mon 10am.

Out of all of the " Hot Hits " stations, WBBM-FM was the most successful for the longest period of time and managed to accomplish what a long line of stations since the 1960s had been unable to do: defeat WLS for Chicago's top 40 radio crown.

In 2010 Chicago's WBEZ radio and The Chicago Tribune included her on their list of Top 50 folk artists of the last 50 years.

Chicago's PBS station can be seen on WTTW, producer of shows, such as Sneak Previews, The Frugal Gourmet, Lamb Chop's Play-Along and The McLaughlin Group, just to name a few and WYCC.

On April 16, 2009 at 6: 00AM CDT, WYCC-TV transmitting off the John Hancock switched to all-digital broadcasting, becoming Chicago's first television station to stop broadcasting in an analog signal.

This new station replaced Geneva as the western end-of-line making Elburn one of Chicago's farthest western suburbs.

Sears originally operated its station at its Chicago headquarters on Chicago's West Side where the company's mail order business was located.

The call letters came about because the founders wanted the station to be Chicago's Window To The World.

Several months earlier on November 1, 2007, the station also debuted a new custom news music package Chicago's Very Own by 615 Music ( John Hegner composed a custom news theme of the same name that was used from 1993 to 1997 ).

The Pennsylvania Railroad, along with the Milwaukee Road and the Burlington Route, built Chicago's Union Station, the only one of Chicago's old stations to continue to be used as an intercity train station ( the other five of Chicago's original passenger stations have either been demolished, substantially remodeled or repurposed, though three still host daily commuter service ).

: The BNSF Railway ' Line's Hollywood station is within walking distance of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.

Chicago's Museum Campus, including the Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum of Natural History, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, and Soldier Field are all within walking distance of the Museum Campus / 11th Street station.

Sang the lyrics to WGN-TV's 1983 " Chicago's Very Own " ad campaign, a slogan that the station still uses to this day.

Both the Good Counsel Province of the Polish Felician Sisters and the Evangelical Covenant Church are headquartered in this neighborhood, as is Chicago's PBS station, WTTW, in the Chicago Production Center.

Abakanowicz's most recent work has included a project called Agora, which is a permanent installation located at the southern end of Chicago's Grant Park, next to the Roosevelt Road Metra station.

* Cottage Grove, short for East 63rd-Cottage Grove ( CTA ), a transit station in Chicago's ' L ' system

The station was closed on May 2, 1971, as the first step of Amtrak's consolidation of Chicago's remaining intercity train operations at Union Station.

Articles about this station appeared in the Chicago Tribune " Radio Station ' Way Out '; FCC Closes It "; Broadcasting magazine April 8, 1968, pg. 67 " Chicago's Caroline silenced by FCC fuzz " and in Valley Voices A Radio History by John Russell Ghrist.

Since 1995 — the same year the station moved into new facilities in Northwestern's Annie May Swift Hall — WNUR's slogan has been ' Chicago's Sound Experiment.