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Overview
Licensed to Chicago, Illinois, WBBM is an all-news radio station broadcasting on 780 AM. It brands itself as “Newsradio 105.9 WBBM.” It began broadcasting in 1924.
License and signal
- Call sign
- WBBM
- Frequency
- 780 AM
- Format
- All-news radio
- On-air name
- Newsradio 105.9 WBBM
- City of license
- Chicago, IL
- Market
- Chicago, IL
- Licensee
- Audacy License, LLC
- Station class
- A
- First on air
- 1924
- FCC facility ID
- 9631
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Network programming comes from ABC News Radio and Bloomberg Radio. The FCC license is held by Audacy License, LLC.
Chicago is in the Chicago, IL market, where local newspapers include Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune. Sister stations include WBBM-FM, WCFS-FM, WSCR, WSCR-FM and WUSN.
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WBBM at a glance
- Frequency
- 780 AM
- On air as
- Newsradio 105.9 WBBM
- Format
- All-news radio
- Licensed to
- Chicago, IL
- Market
- Chicago, IL
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