Posted by LL on May 26, 2009 at 09:28:45:
In Reply to: The history of WLS in Chicago posted by WLS fan on May 25, 2009 at 15:05:38:
I listened to half of it yesterday. While I appreciated the idea, it really fell short.
Jeff Davis is a great vo talent, and from what I hear, a good guy. But he is by no means an interviewer. LAME-o. Stick to image vo and countdowns, Jefferson.
Davis was the host "interviewing" past WLS personalities. And the show got REALLY lame when the entire spot on Steve & Garry was :30 seconds long. Then he went to Harry Shear who talked about the few times he filled in for them, and that interview was a train wreck. The last hour sounded more like an informercial for the talk format, than the station's history. And the hype about what a good news station 'LS is today made me puke, considering they whacked their news department a year ago.
Sadly, what made WLS great was it was full of no BS, talented rebels. Now it is more PC than WGN.
: I'm listening to the complete history of WLS-AM 890 in Chicago. They are playing old audio archives, interviews and music today over the course of the past 85 years and their three formats, [i]The Prairie Farmer station [/i](country music from 1924 to 1960); [i]The Big 89 / Music Radio WLS [/i](Top 40 Rock 1960 to 1990) and again as [i]The Big 89 [/i]News / Conservative Talk 1990 to present.