What has happened with this station, while I do like Bob Sirott and John Williams, what is what…read morewith all the promos for Lisa Dent, or why does she has to say her name? And even she is tied with David Hochberg to be the 2 most annoying personalities on the station for local hosts. And even you start hearing his commercials where he asks David Jennings who his guests going to be. I hope the local personalities are enjoying show time while they can, as less than a month, Dave Eanet will be retuning with another season of Northwestern Football, then basketball once their season gets going, then Chicago Bears will return for another season, which meats the return of Hamp and O'B doing their pre and post game shows, and once Chicago Blackhawks start their season, plus they will be picking up Chicago White Sox's games when they come in conflict with the Chicago Bears games. And then picking up The Verdict with Ted Cruz, is WLS AM or The Answer too busy to be the Chicago radio affiliate for the show on Sunday nights to air it? Ted Cruz has to be spreading Republican lies, and making Donald Trump sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread.

The daytime hosts are entertaining but the late night hosts are syndicated extremists. Really hard…read moreto listen to their spewing, especially wgn's Sunday night shows. All filled with disappointment and hatred filled hosts and callers. Lots of complaining but no solutions. I recommend only listening to wgn from 6am to 9pm. If you listen overnight, get ready to hear angry and bitter extremist conspiracy believers shouting in their own echo chambers.

Friday, 4/14/23...(7:30pm) guess it's robo dj, .....but, whatever- it's a great playlist!!! kudos…read moreto the architect!! love it!

These guys keep me in the Loop! This is a fun radio station…read morethat serves the community. They play a local playlist of bands from Chicago, songs about Illinois, and talk about local political and social issues. Since this station is on the left side of the dial, there's no real commercials on here- it truly serves the community with the occasional public service announcement. Plus, they talk about things that other radio stations won't or can't have the time to discuss. The celebrate all the local holidays, and have some in-depth discussions on all things Chicago. If you don't like the music on here, give it an hour, and the DJ will change, and they'll put something else on. This morning, I woke up jamming to Tupac with them. You can pick up this station on a smart speaker world-wide! If you're missing Chicago, or just wanting to learn a little more about the Windy City, this is a great way to tune in and turn on!

Christmas is in the air and so is serendipity, as well as the voice of Jose Feliciano! I posted my…read morereview of "Aunt Chilada's in Phoenix at 12.22 pm and at 12:28 pm...Feliz Navidad" comes on ....Right after I'd just written those very words :-) WLS is so naughty that they're nice! I like that they read my mind. (Or my reviews?!) LOL anyway all I know is that felt really cool that that song came on. And, as always, I'm still a devoted listener. Music has come to mean even more to me over the last couple of years and so WLS means even more than ever. I like it that they changed up their commercial (ads) content recently to some new businesses...it's nice hearing something different in the ads.

As I was doing a cross country drive back to North Carolina and driving through Chicago area on…read moreSeptember 12, 2024 I caught their lame morning show with Dave and Kim. First off, Kim is their just to laugh and contributes nothing to the lame show. However, even worse was Dave Fogel. he is a real a-hole. On September 11, 2024 there was a small plane crash in suburbs of Chicago. Yes nobody was injured, but he was making fun of the plane crash. I am sure he found the terror attacks on September 11, 2001 really funny too. Dave Fogel should be at least suspended without pay if not outright terminated. What an a-hole he is!! Really, I don't find anything funny about plane crashes!!

I can not understand for the life in me WHY do you have the 12 noon dee jay (Howard McGee) on…read moreSunday that talk more than he play music? Talking with stupid jokes. WHY? Herb Kent is probably perturbed too. Sunday is a relaxation day, we want to hear laid back music. Ex( dusties, blues and a little jazz) I am certain your ratings and advertisements have decreased. If this is the best you can do, poooor choice. A lot of people are agreeing with me, but are not big enough to complain. Please make Sunday a priority again. 1 star is too many.

Good Morning, I have a suggestion for this radio station…read more Please, please change the track of songs you play. I'm so tired of listening to the same 20 songs every day. If not for the DJS, I wouldn't listen at all. There's so many great songs to choose from. Please consider this. I want to love this station but now it's a like. Make it great for your listeners.

So, this review is mostly for the Waddle and Silvy show, but as a whole, I love this radio station…read more- well, the local shows and hosts anyway. But that's my one problem with this station...there aren't enough local shows! I much prefer the local personalities on this radio station as compared to those on another local sports talk radio station. However, I'm forced to listen to the other said station in the evenings and on the weekends, because ESPN airs mostly national shows during these times! It's sad because I love ESPN local radio. My exceptions to this are Bruce Levine, Fred Huebner, and Mike Murphy. Bruce is so far up the Cubs @ss, it's not even funny. I can't listen to a word he says. Fred is just annoying to listen to because I don't feel like he knows very much and Mike Murphy...where do I start with this one? I'm not sure who made the decision to put him back on the radio, but he/she needs to be fired - IMMEDIATELY! So, back to what I love about this station...Waddle and Silvy! I heart them. They get me through my day at work and make me laugh out loud many times a day. I'm pretty sure the people that sit near me at work think I'm completely nuts, but I'm okay with it. I'm not sure what I'd do without them! My employer does not allow web streaming and I can't get the AM radio to come in in the Loop so I'm relegated to the podcast, which means I'm listening to Monday's show on Tuesday (and so on), which is annoying, but I need my fix so I'll take it any way I can get it. And then there's CJH...I like this group, but I don't download their podcasts. If I can catch them on the radio now and then, I'm good. I will say, Carmen is a marked improvement over Mac. He was a pompous @ss and I'm glad he's gone! Jurko is my favorite - he cracks me up. I don't always agree with his thoughts, but he's funny as hell. I also really like JD, Hood and most of the reporters. I just wish this station had more local programming in the evenings and on the weekends! I'm forced to go elsewhere during these times and I'm not happy about it.

SUCKS!!! Stops the Chicago Bears game online broadcast to put on White Sox pregame. Should have…read moreleft it on AM780

Great holiday music if you can make it through the commercials. Wow. So many. I can't be the only…read moreone that noticed that.

It would be a much better and much more enjoyable station if they would play music and not talk so…read moremuch. It's annoying.

So glad to see that someone else is as baffled as I am that this station is so popular. To be…read morefair, I've never listened to this station at any time other than the morning. But that was more than enough. Eric, Kathy and Melissa are criminally annoying. Eric prattles on and dishes with the girls about Britney Spears, Mary Janes, fierce cosmos and pugs. But he doesn't _really_ know anything about this stuff because he is Straight (Richard Simmons), Straight (Charles Nelson Reilly), Straight (RuPaul). And Kathy and Melissa do their level best to set the women's movement back hundreds of years (respectively with inane ramblings and palpable lack of confidence) each time they open their mouths. Eric says, "The sun is a source of cold." Kathy says, "Really, Eric? Gawsh, I never thought of that before. Wooaaaooww. Gigglegiggle." Melissa says, "Um, no I don't think..." Eric says, "Aren't you old and desperate for a man?" Melissa shuts up. How do people listen to this day in and day out? When I first moved to Chicago, my clock radio was set on this frequency from my previous city of residence. The one positive I can say about THA MIXXX is that as soon as I heard the inanity, I would bolt out of bed to turn the radio off. So, thanks Eric & Kathy, for making sure that I started my day with a fright and great annoyance but, at least, I got out of bed promptly.

Radio Stations change. If you don't believe me- just go back…read moreto watching reruns of Loni Anderson and WKRP in Cincinnati, the episode that has 4 old OLD old people protest in studio to change back to easy morgue music. I grew up too at a time when music was King in Chicago, the age of stations like Q101, B96 and the new era of shook jocks like Man Cow in the Morning. I am so glad that I was a teacher in Cicero and listened to him on the way to work- talking explicitly about poop-cicles before having to teach makes things in perspective like no other. So when people give negative comments- I just don't get it. You are not 17 any more growing up locked in your room grounded, there is this thing called the internet, SerousXM radio, CD players, Ipods and a ton of other toys to listen to exactly what you want when you want it if you drive, walk or commute. Performance Corner I am really happy that stations now have the ability and means to give great performances through the net offered by their stations. Performance Corner is a chance for me to hear and now even see what was filmed live. I can see my friends or friends of my friends that have now bands that are on the tour scene in Chicago. Even though I am in Honolulu - I'm able to view shows that really interest me. I remember having to stay up way too late one night in High School to hear DJ Russ Harris (a friend) first battle on the DJ mix off competitions and then preform his sets live on air. I had to stay up til like 3 am or something for some but it was crazy cool to me to do that.... NOW all I would have to do is stream at 3 pm in the lazy afternoon or whenever I wanted to repeatedly cause it is on-line. I'm able to see bands play in the Performance Corner and watch them anywhere. When I am back in Chicago I scan and listen to the old radio stations that I used to listen to- and guess what? DJ have changed, radio station formats have changed, things change. I get that. Was it as good as when the station first started? No! But that doesn't mean that they aren't doing their thing. They seem to have more contests. Hey I'm up to try to win tickets- well that is how they try to get listeners and loyal listeners. They do this or that contest and try to get listeners. Myself- I want to hear a good mix of music played, I'm rare and will seek out a station that I like and listen on the internet occasionally. Others know that people are picky, so they do what they think best. No, I don't like Eric and Kathy, but hey I'm not a daily listener as I said. I like many other younger/ savey listeners are listening more targeted and specifically for a specific reason, it may be different for each real listener. Internet has changed much in the industry and I do not fault stations. I do wish they were caught in a perfect time bubble that I could listen to and remember simpler times whenever I needed to and a dj that could relate to me perfectly- I also know that is not grounded in reality. Til then, I pick and choose those that I like and enjoy the Performance Corner especially cause I know friends or friends of friends on it.

I used to love this station with their no repeat work day. The problem is they play the same songs…read moreevery day. It's like Gaga only has Bad Romance and Christina Aguilera on has Genie in a Bottle.

This is one of the presets on my car radio. For a "love" station there are very few "love songs"…read moreplayed. It seems over the past 8 months or so they've transitioned into an 70's/80's station. I really like there Friday and Saturday night club mix of 70's and 80's songs (can you guess how old I am now?). All in all, a good station worth listening too!

They play the same repetitive tapes every night.. Over and over. And the same commercial ads…read more during the day time.

I listened every late night to overnight. whoever decided to tell the time as in "10, 20, 30 min…read moreafter the hour" format should be fired! who the heck can tell if what hour that is if its not spoken. Drives me crazy enough that I had to stop streaming the station.