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...best-seller lists. History may be too strong a word. What Terkel does is refine and package the radio call-in show between hard covers. It is a natural step for the man who for 35 years has been the host of his own talk show on Chicago's WFMT. In his checked shirts, and suits that look like they are sent out to be cleaned and rumpled, Terkel is the city's most recognizable author. The dapper Saul Bellow would be a close second. Scott Turow's commuter camouflage renders him nearly invisible...
...vast license in Terkel's case. He was in Chicago when Dillinger was shot and in Selma in 1965. He has also elicited conversation from just about every notable from Bertrand Russell to Mahalia Jackson-and he is still at his listening post at Chicago's WFMT...
...Chicago (circ. 140,000) began life 24 years ago as Chicago Guide, a supermarket giveaway that listed radio programs of the city's classical music station, WFMT. In 1971, Publisher Raymond Nordstrand, 43, who came to Chicago from WFMT (he is still its station manager), decided to add articles and start selling the magazine to the public. Since then it has become one of the fattest books in the country. Today, a typical 230-page issue carries more than 100 pages of advertising. Last year Nordstrand dropped the "Guide" from Chicago's title. But on the inside, Chicago...
Advertisers have discovered that WFMT's listeners are a group to be taken seriously. Many are professional people and executives. Their median income is $9,300 a year. They make up in buying power what they lack in numbers. Sponsors, ranging from brokerage houses to airlines, have found that such a selected audience can pay off handsomely on the advertising dollar. One South Side real estate developer practically filled a new apartment complex last year with WFMT listeners...
Free Imagination. The success of WFMT is only the most notable example of the general rise of FM broadcasting across the U.S. Developed in the '30s when AM broadcasting was at its peak, slowed by World War II, FM was almost obliterated in the postwar rush to television. The quality of FM reception is clearly superior to AM, and is almost entirely static-free. As most of AM disintegrated into rock-'n'-rollery and TV began hunting for all the lowest cultural denominators, FM became an outpost of excellence whose scope has steadily grown. In 1956 there...