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WLS

clear-channel news/talk radio station in Chicago
Organization radio_station Q7952483

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
radio station
Inception
1924[5]
Owned by
Cumulus Media[3]
Country
United States[2]
Official website
www.wlsam.com, wlsam.com[6][7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.556°, -87.848°
Licensed to broadcast to
Chicago[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Chicago[1]
Radio format
talk radio[4]
Social media followers
+9555, +9957[9][10]
🏷️ Also known as
en WLS
🔖 Identifiers · 13
VIAF cluster ID
139706802
Library of Congress authority ID
n93111339
Domain name
wlsam.com
Encyclopedia of Chicago ID
1366
FCC Facility ID
73227
Facebook username
890WLSAM
Freebase ID
/m/011x3m
Instagram username
wlsam890
Muck Rack media outlet ID
wlsam
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987013317046505171
Threads username
wlsam890
X (Twitter) username
wlsam890
Show all 13 identifiers +1
Yale LUX ID
group/fe9be3cd-b7de-4745-b478-0be913b06a7b

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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Chicago emerging0.662 independent sources

evidence “The station announced Nneka Nwosu, a Philadelphia native currently serving as the vice president of marketing and local programming at sister-station WLS in Chicago, will take over running the Action News newsroom.” inquirer.com · read source

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  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . Muck Rack. Retrieved . muckrack.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Library of Congress authority ID → n93111339
    Instance of → radio station
    Owned by → Cumulus Media
    Encyclopedia of Chicago ID → 1366
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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