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WGRB. / 41.7369778°N 87.7000500°W / 41.7369778; -87.7000500. WGRB (1390 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago. It is owned by iHeartMedia and it airs an urban gospel format. On Sundays, the station broadcasts the services of several African-American churches in the area.
WMFN. / 41.3011111°N 87.8352778°W / 41.3011111; -87.8352778. WMFN (640 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Black-oriented news format from the Black Information Network. The station is owned by Birach Broadcasting, and under a local marketing agreement with iHeartMedia, specifically its Chicago cluster. Licensed to Peotone, Illinois ...
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Illinois, ... Great Lakes Radio-Chicago, LLC: Gospel WBGZ: 1570 AM: ... Black Business ...
WVON (1690 AM "The Voice of the Nation", originally "Voice of the Negro") is a radio station serving the Chicago market, which airs an African-American -oriented talk format. WVON is operated by Midway Broadcasting Corporation via a local marketing agreement with frequency owner iHeartMedia . WVON's predecessor station began catering to an ...
WBBM (780 kHz) – branded Newsradio 780 WBBM – is a commercial all-news AM radio station licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Audacy, Inc., its studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Chicago Loop, while the station transmitter— diplexed with sister station WSCR —resides in the nearby suburb of Bloomingdale .
WLIT-FM. / 41.878917°N 87.635611°W / 41.878917; -87.635611. WLIT-FM (93.9 MHz, "93.9 Lite FM") is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts a soft adult contemporary format. Its studios are located at the Illinois Center complex in the Chicago Loop, while the station transmitter is on top of the Willis ...
The All-Negro Hour first premiered on November 3, 1929, on World Stage Battery Company ( WSBC ), a white-owned radio station in Chicago, and ran until 1935. [1] The program aired on WSBC’s “ethnic appeal” station every Sunday night at 5 p.m. The “ethnic appeal” station was owned by Joseph Silverman, a battery manufacturer, who sold ...
The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable 's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African and French descent. [4] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city's first black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first ...