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[broadcastarchive-umd]

A photo on eBay with the title, "MITZI Lonely Lady Radio Soap Opera Broadcast Star," once sent me down the rabbit hole. Faint writing on the back said, "Mitzi of Lonely Lady being televised over WCFL at the Pier." Curiouser and curiouser.

[wordfromoursponsor]

"Sure, we like 15 year olds, but your products' best customers aren't the teenagers--so why direct your sales message to them?" (1957)

[oldshowbiz]

Radio WCFL began as a labor union radio station in the late 1920s.

Its call letters stand for the Chicago Federation of Labor.

By the late 1960s it dropped most of its labor programming for one of the best Top 40 formats in all of America.

This aircheck is a fine example of the excellent AM Gold playlist they had back in the day.

[airchexx]

Dick Biondi on WLS 89 Chicago | May 2 1962

 WLS 89 Chicago – Dick Biondi – May 2 1962 Known as the “Wild I-tralian,” Dick Biondi began his broadcasting career in Corning, New York. Biondi spent two years with WKBW/Buffalo before moving to the big time and WLS/Chicago in 1960. With his exuberant personality, and the big signal of WLS which could be heard across much of the country, Biondi quickly became one of the nation’s…

[bluesrocknrollingstones]

Interview by Jim Stagg at WCFL in Chicago , 1964 photo from manning2red on eBay

[megan-jules]

Happy Labor day from your favorite rock chick.

I am old enough that I actually was a live DJ on WCFL. The voice of labor!

[lboogie1906]

Carole Simpson (December 7, 1940) is a broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. She is the first African American woman to anchor a major US network newscast.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She began her career on radio at WCFL in Chicago and was hired at WBBM. She moved to television at Chicago’s WMAQ and on to NBC News in 1975, becoming the first African American woman to anchor a major network newscast. She joined ABC News in 1982 and was an anchor for the weekend edition of World News Tonight (1988-2003).

editShe became the first woman of color to moderate a presidential debate when she moderated the debate held between George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. She was the recipient of the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

She is on the Advisory Council at the International Women’s Media Foundation.

She retired from ABC News in 2006 to begin teaching journalism at Emerson College (2006-19).

She is a former member of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation Board of Trustees and an affiliate of the Radio Television Digital News Association. She established the Carole Simpson Scholarship to encourage and help minority students overcome hurdles along their career path, which is offered annually to aspiring journalists.

In 2010, her autobiography, Newslady, was published by AuthorHouse.

She married Jim Simpson (1966). She is a cousin of sportswriter and ESPN commentator Michael Wilbon. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[onehandtypingb1]

Song Lyric Sunday: Ambergris, "Chocolate Pudding"

Christine chose today’s theme, which is “song that mentions a food.” Mine comes with a story… Back when I first bought my stereo (I was 14 and used the money from my graduation from 8th grade), Mom was dating a guy whose mother worked at WCFL in Chicago. He told his mom about me, and she said she might be able to get some records for me. Radio stations in those days had a music library built with…

[lothlorienlover]

WLS and WCFL were two great radio stations. Oh those were some of the best days of my life. America was so my better back then.

[livingfree207]

Beauty in nature. #florida #floridaliving #floridalife #wcfl #sunrise #dawn #morning #colors #beauty #beautyinnature #landscape #scenic #outdoors #clouds #sky (at Tampa, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9g0BjBFXOw/?igshid=1a2g8md3qp7xp

[jenisouthhuff]

My rookie season as a cheerleader for football! What a season it was...ryan played like he had played for years, several touchdowns, interceptions, blocks, played offense and defense and special teams!!! We are the luckiest parents to have such healthy and great boys but even more so to see them try their hardest at everything they do and that they succeed-not anything more could we ask for! We were so lucky to be on such a great team, they truly adopted ryan and gave him the praise he deserves! I love coaches that are so positive-they are kids and need that, we got that! I just wish I knew who deserved the credit for this photo... #saints #football #wcfl #thatsmyboy #myryguy @patrickrph #cheerleader (at Bowling Green, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqx8oBcBYq_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wavob2dwixhv

[oldshowbiz]

1969.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Howard Miller claimed that JFK was alive and surrounded by armed guards in a Dallas hospital.

[airchexx]

Ron Brittain - Assorted Bits, WCFL Chicago | 1968

Photo Courtesy Robert Feder / Daily Herald Here’s a bit of Chicago history that would otherwise probably be lost to time.   Many thanks to aircheck collector Matt at Big Apple Airchecks for this slice of radio gold. Hear more Ron Brittain on WCFL below Ron Brittain was in Chicago radio for several decades.  On this recording we hear Ron doing an assortment of bits for his morning show on…

[jstor]

Iggy Pop crowdsurfing at the WCFL Big 10 Summer Music Festival in Chicago, Illinois on July 18, 1970. Browse the collection to see more beautiful people, including Funkadelic, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. Free access for everyone!

[eppysboys]

hi!! do you have that story snippet of brian trying to take pictures of the beatles but he had trouble with the camera and was swearing under his breath? (i think that’s how it went) i scrolled thru your account but couldn’t find it :(

I love that you remember that! 😂 I couldn't find the post either, so I'll just pop it here:

"My father met the Beatles and Brian Epstein in Chicago in 1966, during the last tour. Dad was a station manager for WCFL. His initial impression was that the four Beatles were not dark haired but quite BROWN, except for Paul. Dad's most distinguishing comment was that Brian Epstein was WEIRD. The man was completely obsessed with a Nikon camera he had just bought. He asked my father to show him how the camera worked. My 23 year old father said, "I'm in radio, not cameras." During the concert that night at the Chicago Ampitheater, dad noticed Brian walking though the orchestra pit just FOCUSING his camera, getting puzzled, and screaming, "SH*T!" Weird. Meanwhile several thousand girls are screaming at a band they cannot hear." (Source via eppylover)

[broadcastarchive-umd]

Jack Taylor's career began on Armed Forces Radio, then took him to WINN in Louisville, Kentucky (seen here), and in 1950, to WCFL in Chicago. He moved to WBBM Radio in 1954, then to his broadcast home for many years, WGN-TV, Chicago, in 1958. #DJMonday 

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