Chicago Radio

The September 14th Chicago Tribune had History Lesson by Mark Jacob on Chicago Radio.

Some items of interest:

Hindenburg explosion in Lakehurst, New Jersey covered by Chicago broadcaster Herb Morrison. "Oh the humanity!" These words, however, were not broadcast live, but the next day when a recording disc was played. Also, his voice sounded excited and high-pitched, but experts believe the recording speed was off. He actually had a deep voice.

Call Letters of Chicago stations:

WCFL-- Chicago Federation of Labor
WGN-- World's Greatest Newspaper-- Chicago Tribune
WLS-- World's Largest Store-- Sears Roebuck & Co.
WVON-- The Voice of the Negro
WBBM-- We Broadcast Broadmoor Music-- when it broadcast from the Broadmoor Hotel
In the early 30s.it stood for World's Best Broadcast Medium

The real name of Chicago broadcaster Paul Harvey is Paul Arvy Aurandt.

The FM station 94.7 now calls itself WLS-FM. Great to have those call letters playing music instead of blah, blah, blah.

The WLS-WCFL Wars. --Old Coot