Happy Friday! This week’s Radio Ink Blast From The Past comes from Ed Salamon, featuring a Windy City format flip at WCFL.

`Gospel music isn’t just for Sundays anymore” is the contention of the Nashville-based Gospel Music Association. And on the FM dial of your radio, WCFL (104.7) is out to prove that motto true. Just a ...

“I’ve always wanted to be the PD of WCFL … and now I ARE one!” So says programmer J.R. Russ. You can do that kind of thing with the Internet. Russ, a voiceover talent and consultant with various radio ...

Introduction : labor and the mass media to 1925 -- The creation of WCFL, 1925-26 -- The promise of labor radio, 1927-28 -- Clear channel and other battles, 1929-32 -- "Something different into our ...

Conflicts between broadcasters over reported interference from translator operations continue to surface. WCFL, a contemporary Christian FM in Morris, Ill., licensed to the parent of the Illinois ...

In 1983, he first gained national recognition for his purchase of WCFL-AM 1000 in Chicago. The $8 million acquisition from Mutual by Statewide Broadcasting brought a big-market property to a group of ...

Indefatigable, playful and gifted with a distinctive, deep voice, broadcaster Art Hellyer was a mainstay on Chicago’s radio airwaves from the 1950s through the 1980s on numerous stations, where he ...