WLS-AM 890 is the University of Illinois’ new radio affiliate and will carry all football and men’s basketball games, as well as the seasonal coaches’ shows, through the 2023-24 season. The five-year ...

WLS-AM/890 will be the official Chicago station of the NASCAR Cup Series. The series will be featured on the radio station, which is owned by Cumulus Media, as part of a three-year deal. The deal ...

With the world of sports at a standstill because of the pandemic, it may seem like an odd time to launch a sports talk show. But that's not stopping WLS 890-AM. The Cumulus Media news/talk station ...

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Chicago’s WLS-AM 890 is bringing back the voices that helped define Top 40 radio in the Midwest with a special two-hour program this Saturday, July 26. WLS Unwound: Personalities of the MusicRadio ...

Steve Cochran, the veteran Chicago radio personality who’s been off the air for two and half years, will be heard again in morning drive next week. From 5:30 to 9 a.m. next Monday through Friday, ...

An on-air host who made his name in the radio business in country music now will join a big-time news/talk AM operation in Chicago For the second time in three months. Cumulus Media's ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Val Warner and Ryan Chiaverini launched "Windy City Weekend" Friday morning with a Host Chat guest: WLS 890 AM radio host Ray Stevens. Stevens is the morning man on the "Big 89," ...

Jonathon Brandmeier returned to the airwaves Monday on WLS-AM 890, debuting his new 9-11 a.m. show on the Cumulus Media-owned talk radio station. “We left in December and it was snowing out,” ...

Erich “Mancow” Muller has been 86ed by the Big 89. WLS-AM 890 pink-slipped Muller, whose 16-month-old midmorning show was too loud and too raucous to fit with anything else on the Citadel Broadcasting ...

Ten years ago this fall, the legendary Don Wade stepped down as morning star at WLS 890-AM as he battled the brain cancer that eventually would take his life. With him and his wife/on-air partner, ...