WSBC

WSBC
City of license Chicago, Illinois
Broadcast area Chicago market
Branding Access Radio Chicago 1240
Frequency 1240 kHz
Format Variety
Power 1,000 watts unlimited
Class C
Facility ID 16847
Callsign meaning World Storage Battery Company[1]
Owner Newsweb Corporation
Sister stations WNDZ, WAIT, WCFJ
Website Official website

WSBC (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Chicago, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is owned by Newsweb Corporation.[2][3]

The station features broadcasts in a variety of languages, principally Russian on weekdays, 7 a.m - 10 a.m. and noon - 6 p.m. Weekends also have broadcasts in Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian and Romanian.

WSBC hired the nation's first full-time African-American radio announcer, Jack Cooper, in 1929.[5]

The call letters acronym referenced its first owner, the World Storage Battery Company.

For many years, WSBC shared time on its frequency with stations WCRW and WEDC. By 1998, WSBC's owners had bought out the latter two stations and established WSBC as a full-time operation.[6][7]


References

  1. ^ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web. http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/origins.call-list.html. 
  2. ^ "WSBC Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WSBC. 
  3. ^ "WSBC Station Information Profile". Arbitron. http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=SU08&band=fm&callLetter=WSBC. 
  4. ^ Fybush, Randy (18-25 July 2001). "The Big Travelogue: Part One-Monday, June 24". Fybush, Randy. http://www.fybush.com/site-010718.html. Retrieved 16 November 2010. 
  5. ^ See Broadcast history at OldTimeRadio.com
  6. ^ "Chicago's Notable Timeshares". Zecom Communications. http://67.162.73.47/public/zecom/museum/Chiradhist/sharedtime.html. Retrieved 15 November 2010. 
  7. ^ "Chicago Radio Timeline". Zecom Communications. http://67.162.73.47/public/zecom/museum/Chiradhist/1240.htm#WEDC. Retrieved 15 November 2010. 

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