For one of the most iconic radio brands a major market has ever seen, there was no week-long walk down memory lane. There was no reminiscing about how the jocks of old broke barriers and broke rules ...

WCFL-AM, a religious music radio station in Chicago, was converted Wednesday into adult rock station WLUP-AM as part of a merger completed between two broadcasting concerns. Heftel Broadcasting, owned ...

The radio, one of the niftiest inventions of the 20th century, has been informing, entertaining, outraging and boring millions of people for more than 100 years. It was called “magic in a box” by Col.

In my younger years, “The Loop” wasn’t just a radio station. It was a black T-shirt movement. A brash call to action. A rebellious snarl in a world of wrinkled smiles. The station, WLUP FM 97.9, was ...

Shock jock Erich Muller signed off from the “Mancow Morning Show” on WLUP-FM 97.9 for the final time Tuesday following the announcement that the station is being sold to Christian broadcaster ...

REO Speedwagon performs a promotional miniconcert for the Jonathon Brandmeier radio show on WLUP-FM 97.9 on the Chicago River by the Merchandise Mart on Sept. 12, 2007. The classic rock band performed ...

Chicagoans who have their clock radios set to WLUP-FM 97.9 may be in for a rude awakening Saturday as songs like AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” give way to “Jesus I Believe” by Big Daddy Weave, the top ...

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Shock jock Erich “Mancow” Muller has dropped his emotional distress lawsuit against current radio boss Marv Nyren, who fired him at a previous station, after clearing the air in a November meeting.

(Crain's) — Two big Chicago radio stations, including WLUP-FM/97.9, are being sold to a venture of Chicago private-equity firm GTCR and radio veteran and former Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels. The ...

A dome-shaped house that appears to hover above the ground like a spaceship, built two decades ago for a Chicago radio psychic, is for sale. Joe Tufano, who under the name Joe Who hosted a show on ...