Word: wls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shift in radio frequencies will necessitate the readjustment of some 11,000,000 sets of the push-button variety. For instance, Chicago's WLS will move from 870 to 890 on the dial; New York's WABC from 860 to 880. For the privilege of enjoying automatic tuning after reallocation, U. S. listeners will have to spend in the neighborhood...
...WLS Barn Dance goes on the air at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.), is sponsored in pieces of 15 minutes and more by Alka-Seltzer, Keystone Steel & Wire Co. (fences), Murphy Products Co. (poultry and livestock feeds), Woodmen Accident Co. (insurance), Edward Funk & Sons (hybrid seed corn...
...Station WLS (standing for World's Largest Store) was launched in 1924 by Sears, Roebuck & Co. A bevy of guests sounded forth, among them Chicago's Mayor William E. Dever, Jane Addams, the Duncan Sisters. Actress Ethel Barrymore was led up to the mike and, affrighted, throbbed "Oh my God!," was then led away. Piped from Manhattan to Chicago were the congratulatory voices of Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Brisbane and Ring Lardner...
...WLS was sold to a giant (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ib.) newspaperman, Burridge Davenal Butler, owner of The Prairie Farmer, oldest (99 years) of its kind in the U. S. Owner Butler made WLS a public servant in the Midwest. Most famed alumnus of WLS programs is Gene Autry, who once sang on the Barn Dance. So did Ruth Etting, at first for nothing and then for $5 a night. Tony Wons read poetry and streamlined Shakespeare for the station. Fibber McGee & Molly worked there before they adopted those names, as did Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden...
...Butler was not in Chicago for WLS's anniversary shindigs during the past fortnight. He has bought Station KOY in Phoenix, Ariz, and another agricultural paper, the Arizona Farmer, and at 72 tinkers happily with these properties...