When the presidency went to someone else, Insull moved to Chicago as head of the Chicago Edison Company.

In 1887, Western Edison became the Chicago Edison Co. Insull left General Electric and moved to Chicago in 1892, where he became president of Chicago Edison that year.

Insull moved the stations first into the Strauss Building, then into the Chicago Civic Opera House, where WENR became an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network.

When the United States asked French authorities that he be extradited, Insull moved on to Greece, where there was not yet an extradition treaty with the US.

The Chicago businessman Samuel Insull reorganized the line as the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend ( today's South Shore Line ) in 1925, upgrading the stations and encouraging tourism.

By 1927, Chicago investor Samuel Insull had taken serious interest in both stations.

Insull purchased both stations, paying $ 1 million for WENR alone.

The investor's fortune began dwindling by 1931 ; Insull then sold the licenses of both stations to National Broadcasting Company.

In the decade that followed, Insull took on increasing responsibilities in Edison's business endeavors, building electrical power stations throughout the US.

He formed the Great Lakes Broadcasting Company in 1927 and purchased Chicago radio stations WENR and WCBN ; the two stations were merged on June 1, 1927, with Insull paying a million dollars for WENR alone.

Insull then built a rail-to-river coal transfer facility on the Illinois River at Havana, IL, where coal could be dumped from rail cars into barges for shipment up the Illinois River to Commonwealth Edison power plants on the river in the Chicago area.

Both husband and wife were patrons of the Arts ; because of this Insull was instrumental in the building of Chicago's Civic Opera House, which opened November 4, 1929 with Aida ; the opera and its cast were chosen by Insull himself.

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Samuel Insull was also known for his charitable works in other areas ; donating large sums of money to local hospitals and then calling on others with similar resources to do the same.

In the 1920s Insull bought some of the trackage of the bankrupt Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad ( CP & StL ), running from Springfield to Havana on the Illinois River and then running northeast from Havana to East Peoria.

He participated in the 1934 prosecution of Samuel Insull, the 1935 income tax case against Andrew Mellon, and the 1937 anti-trust case against Alcoa, in which the Mellon family held an important interest.

Pioneers of central station generation include George Westinghouse and Samuel Insull in the United States, Ferranti and Charles Hesterman Merz in UK, and many others.

Sympathies among many politically and culturally influential Americans had favored the British cause from the start of the war, as typified by industrialist Samuel Insull, born in London, who helped young Americans enlist in British or Canadian forces.

Construction of the then-named George W. Hamilton Dam was started in 1931 by a company controlled by Samuel Insull, but soon ended with the dam less than half completed when his highly leveraged public utility holding company collapsed during the Great Depression.

Examples of well-known business magnates include Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group, utility and transportation magnate Samuel Insull, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst of the Hearst Corporation, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, automobile magnate Henry Ford, Lakshmi Mittal of Arcelor Mittal, poultry magnate Frank Perdue of Perdue Farms, shipping magnate Charles T. Hinde, automobile magnate Ferdinand Piëch of Volkswagen Group, telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, and sports entertainment magnate Vince McMahon of WWE.

Samuel Insull ( November 11, 1859 – July 16, 1938 ) was a British-born American business magnate whose vast Midwest holding company empire collapsed in the 1930s.

Insull was notable for purchasing utilities and railroads using holding companies, as well as the abuse of them.

Samuel Insull was born in London, the son of Samuel Insull, a tradesman and lay preacher who was active in the Temperance movement, and Emma Short.

He had a brother Martin Insull.

When he learned of a job with Edison in the US, Insull indicated he would be glad to have it, provided it was as Thomas Edison's personal secretary.

In 1881, at the age of 21, Insull emigrated to the US, complete with side whiskers to make him appear older than his years.

Insull rose to become vice-president of General Electric, but was unhappy at not being named its president.

Samuel Insull, President of the Commonwealth Edison Co. ( Electrical Review, Volume 56-pub.

This single FCC action would render all Armstrong-era FM receivers useless within a short time as stations were moved to the new band, while it also protected both RCA's AM-radio stronghold and that of the other major competing networks, CBS, ABC and Mutual.

Freestyle's Top 40 Radio airplay peaked in 1987, and it began to disappear from the air waves in the early 1990s as radio stations moved to Top 40-only formats.

His nationally syndicated radio show, The Michael Reagan Talk Show, aired on stations throughout the United States on the Premiere Radio Networks before being dropped, after which it moved to Radio America.

This is why many oldies stations, like WCBS-FM in New York City and WJMK in Chicago, have switched over to the younger-oriented Jack FM format in recent years — although WCBS-FM reverted back to its oldies format on July 12, 2007, and the " Jack FM " format was moved to its HD2 subchannel.

The program gained more popularity and was moved to stations with larger audiences, eventually being broadcast on over 650 radio stations nationwide.

Other owned-and-operated stations were KNX Los Angeles, KCBS San Francisco ( originally KQW ), WBBM Chicago, WCAU Philadelphia, WJSV Washington, D. C. ( later WTOP, which moved to the FM dial in 2005 ; the AM facility today is WFED, also a secondary CBS affiliate ), KMOX St. Louis, and WCCO Minneapolis.

At different times, and for different reasons, people moved away to the outskirts of towns, to pastoral stations and church missions.

In a move that turned out to do even more damage, the network moved Match to its 1960s timeslot of 4: 00 PM, a time slot which by this point many local stations were preempting in favor of local or syndicated programming.

Historically, CBC Radio One has broadcast primarily on the AM band, but many stations have moved over to FM.

Beyond event coverage, many Global stations were well known for local late-night sports highlights shows, such as Sportsline in Ontario, Sports Page in Vancouver ( later moved to former sister station CHEK-TV ), and Sports Night in Edmonton.

Meanwhile as the Allied vessels moved into position, along the Ottoman lines trumpets sounded action stations.

There was some local opposition to this scheme, but the move was temporary, as the stations affected moved their primary broadcast facilities to the Empire State Building.

The old Indian settlement of that name was, however, several miles from the present site of the town, but through the influence of G. W. Grayson, the present Chief of the Creeks, his brother Samuel, George Stidham and others, the Railroad Company was induced to locate one of its stations at the present site of the town and the old Indian village was moved to the station.

For its second season in the fall of 1992, the series was purchased by the NBC owned-and-operated stations, thus allowing it to finally achieve full national clearance, and production was moved to its longtime home at Chicago's NBC Tower ( with Springer leaving his longtime position at WLWT in order to do so ).

The railroad officials, however, decided on two stations, so the little store was moved several miles south to become the first business in Trumbull.

As Kids ' WB shared more and more of its programming with Cartoon Network, because of the 1996 Turner-Time Warner merger and the fact that Cartoon Network was outrating Fox Kids, airing Kids ' WB became financially unattractive as broadcast stations started showing only live-action talk shows and sitcom reruns in the afternoon to compete and go after a different audience, figuring children had all moved to watching cable networks in the afternoons.

Many Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations broadcast a modified form of the SMPTE bars ( with an additional modulated ramp at the top and a CBC logo animation in place of the Q block ) late at night until late 2006, when the network moved to 24-hour broadcasting.

She moved across the Hudson River to Connecticut, to be the reporter and anchor for WTNH and radio stations WDRC, WKND, and WWCD.

For the U. S., a form of clear channels first appeared in 1922 when the Commerce Department moved stations which had all used three ( initially two ) frequencies ( two for entertainment stations, one for " weather and crop reports ") onto 52 frequencies.

Craig Media ( then-owners of the current Citytv stations in Winnipeg and Alberta ) owned the rights to Monday Night Football in the early 2000s, and these rights moved to Citytv for MNFs final season on ABC in 2005, before being moved again to TSN in 2006.

However, in the 1990s, many of the CBC's AM stations moved to FM in response to complaints of poor AM reception.