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 ...

Larry Kudlow, the former director of the National Economic Council and a current on-air host at the Fox Business Network, will debut a new weekend show on Cumulus Media’s Chicago talk powerhouse WLS ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Jonathon Brandmeier is joining WLS-AM 890 in March, taking over the 9 to 11 a.m. slot, the Cumulus Media-owned station announced Thursday. Brandmeier’s show will also be syndicated nationally by ...

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," ...

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When Steve Cochran opens the mic on WLS 890-AM at the crack of dawn today, he'll become the fifth morning host in 10 years at the Cumulus Media news/talk station. And he'll have nowhere to go but up. ...