Glad to hear right wing radio is doing so poorly here.

[Peregrine Took]

WLS AM/talk yakkers are down to a pathetic 15th in the ratings.

http://www.robertfeder.com/2013/11/29/radio-ratings-v103-on-top-again/

The main goal of the talkers is to turn the populace against AFSCME and SEIU and they do so at every opportunity. This morning (I listen once in a blue moon to see what they are up to) 3 of them were attacking public employee unions and in doing so revealed all they really want is to drive all of us to the bottom so their republican cronies will make more money. Their twisted logic: because everyone doesn't earn decent wages and benefits - no one should! Hey, instead of trying to bring public salaries down to the level of many poorly paid private sector employees - why not try to raise the latter to a livable level instead?

Glad to see so few are listening to these idjits. Now back to progressive radio!!

[Bluzmann57]

1. What's real sad is that WLS used to be a great station

I'm talking before the rise of FM radio though. Larry Lujack, John "Records" Landecker and the rest spinning rock and roll records. Back when a DJ could be an honest to goodness local hero and the music ruled the radio.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. In my youth, WLS formed the foundation of my musical knowledge

This was back in the day before FM rose to prominence and WLS was a 50,000-watt blowtorch across the midwest after dark.

[argyl]

11. I'd catch WLS in Schertz,Texas (just outside San Antonio)at night in the mid 60's.Loved it.

[Peregrine Took]

7. I used to listen all the time. Sigh...now its Limbaugh and Hannity and.....Levin. n/t

[Shrike47]

2. Is urban adult contemporary a music station?

[Peregrine Took]

8. Used to be "top 40" back in the day - then it went all talk in the 80's

and then, horrors - right wing talkery!

[Warpy]

3. The shtik is old and tired and people are tuning in mostly out of habit

People are finally beginning to see what 45 years of conservatism from both parties have gotten them. All those "business friendly" administrations have done nothing but decrease the amount of businesses selling things people need and want while driving wages down below subsistence.

A lot of people have finally had enough. They still want to drive that Cadillac driving, ten kids by ten different men inner city welfare queen off welfare. They still don't know she was always a fiction.

[Peregrine Took]

9. What slays me are the retirees (some gov't) who listen all the time.

WTH??

[rurallib]

4. Was hoping to see WCPT in there some place

I listen on the computer every day.
Many years ago I was an avid WGN listener, but last time I turned them on it sounded like yet another RW station.

[Peregrine Took]

6. Me, too. I wake up at 5 AM to hear Bill Press...

then on to Stephanie and Ed and Tom. They need to market their station better but that takes money.

Chicago is a funny town and I've lived here all my life. I still can't peg where it stands, politically. The lakefront is liberal but the further you get into the neighborhoods, it gets more conservative with a few exceptions where young people have settled not too far from downtown.

City employees have to live in the city limits and they tend to be conservative - except the ones who live on the lakefront.

Very frustrating. And then, of course, Rham got elected, mainly by south siders, who are now disillusioned with him.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. WGN is gradually working it's way back from the disastrous Kevin Metheny era.

Metheny (made famous as "Pig Vomit" in Howard Stern's Private Parts) was the program director brought in to convert WGN into another WLS. He mainly managed to insult and drive away the audience. WGN is now run by the guys who ran The Loop back in the 80's/90's and is trying to re-attract its traditional middle-aged, middle of the road audience. The morning guy, Steve Cochrane is somewhat RW but mostly just an idiot savant who knows how to run a tight talkradio show.

[Snarkoleptic]

12. The "Big 89" was great back in the day.

I remember in H.S. Drivers Ed, we'd always head to the donut shop and listen to Animal Stories during the Lujack show.
In the late 70's we'd follow the WLS Magic Bus (shown below while towing a parade float) to get our way-too-cool WLS t-shirts (below as well).